GUIYOU HUANG, Ph.D., is Dean of Biscayne College and Professor of English at St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida.

Before his appointment as Dean of Biscayne College, Dr. Huang had served in numerous administrative roles in different institutions, including Dean of Undergraduate Studies & Programs at St. Thomas University; Honors College Director at Grand Valley State University, Michigan; Director of University Honors Program and Chair of the English Department at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Huang has taught a range of courses in American literature at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in universities of the US and China, including Lehigh University, Pennsylvania; Texas A&M University - College Station; Peking University; and Qufu Teachers University, China.

Dr. Huang’s research concerns three main areas: 19th and 20th-century American literature, Asian American literature, and China-US comparative literary and cultural studies. He is author and editor of over ten books, including Asian, Asian American, American: Texts in Between (forthcoming), The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature since 1945 (Columbia University Press, 2006), Whitmanism, Imagism, and Modernism in China and America (Susquehanna University Press, 1997), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature (Greenwood Press, 2008), Global Perspectives on Asian North American Literature (Beijing Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press, 2007), Asian American Literary Studies (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), Asian American Short Story Writers (Greenwood Press, 2003), Asian American Poets (Greenwood Press, 2002), and Asian American Autobiographers (Greenwood Press, 2001). He is co-translator, into Chinese, of Approaching Postmodernism (Peking University Press, 1991), and co-editor and contributor to A Companion to Masterpieces in World Poetry (Peking University Press, 1990). He has printed over forty articles and essays, mostly in English and a few in Chinese, and has made presentations and speeches at many national and international conferences in North America, Asia, and Europe.

Dr. Huang has appeared in interviews on higher education issues and Asian American topics in newspapers, on radio, and TV; most recently he was interviewed on the Voice of America’s Radio and TV program “Issues & Opinions.” He is a biographee in Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, and 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century. He was a Visiting Scholar with ETS at Princeton (2007). He is an Honorary Research Fellow at Beijing Foreign Studies University (since 2005) and an Honorary Professor at Qufu Teachers University (since 2005).

Dr. Huang was born in southwestern China in the early sixties and grew up in eastern China, before he went to Beijing to pursue graduate studies. He arrived in the United States on August 16, 1989 to study for a Ph.D. degree in English. He is married to Dr. Yufeng Qian, a professor of educational technology and they have one son. He enjoys spending time with his son George Ian – fishing, swimming, or watching movies, and he likes cooking whenever he finds the time.