颜子楠，男，1982年出生。2006年伦敦西敏斯特大学学士，计算机软件工程专业。2007年伦敦大学亚非学院硕士，汉学专业。2011年伦敦大学亚非学院博士，汉学专业。2011年至2013年间于伦敦大学亚非学院任教。2014年起任教于北京师范大学文学院。2017年至2018年间于牛津大学访学。2025年春季于北京大学访学。研究方向为：结构主义诗学，明代诗歌与诗学，清代宫廷文学、政治与文化

Zinan Yan received BEng in Software Engineering from University of Westminster, and MA and PhD in Sinology from SOAS, University of London.

He served as Teaching Fellow at SOAS from 2011 to 2013, Lecturer at Beijing Normal University from 2014 to 2018, and Visiting Scholar at University of Oxford from 2017 to 2018; he is now Associate Professor in the Department of Traditional Chinese Literature at BNU.

His research areas are: 1) Ming dynasty poetry and poetics, 2) Qing dynasty court literature and political culture, and 3) Structuralism in literary studies.