Hu Yamin is professor and former dean of the School of Chinese Language and Literature at Central China Normal University, president of the journal Foreign Literature Studies, vice president of Writers Association of Hubei Province, a member on the Advisory Board for Chinese Literature and Language Teaching of the Ministry of Education of China and a member of Reviewing Expertise Group of the National Social Science Fund of China. She is the author of Between China and the West: The Road of  Literary Criticism, Narratology, Comparative Literature.