程光炜，男，1956年12月生，江西省婺源县人。1995年毕业于武汉大学，获中国现当代文学专业博士学位。1992年破格升为教授。中国人民大学文学院教授、博士生导师。从事中国当代文学史研究。中国当代文学研究会副会长。在《文学评论》《文艺研究》《中国现代文学研究丛刊》《文艺争鸣》等核心学术期刊发表论文土百余篇。出版有专著《文学讲稿：八十年代作为方法》《当代文学的历史化》《文学史二十讲》等十余部。曾多次赴欧洲和东亚地区参加学术会议和讲学。

Cheng Guangwei taught at Hubei Normal University before 1991. In 1992, he pursued a Ph.D. degree in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature with Professor Lu Yaodong of Wuhan University. In June 1995, he obtained a Ph.D. degree and taught at Renmin University of China. He currently serves as the Vice President and Executive Director of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association, he is the Convener of the “Eleventh Five-Year” Social Science Planning and Art Review Group of Beijing, Director of the China Modern Literature Research Association, the Chinese Poetry Research Center of Peking University, he is a Part-time Researcher at the Poetry Research Center of Capital Normal University, Director of the China Wenyi Research Institute, and Editor-in-chief of the China Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Journal of Renmin University of China.