Thomas Moran (1957 – ) studied English and American literature as an undergraduate at Syracuse University. He taught at the International School of Beijing from 1981 to 1983. He studied at Peking University in 1984 to 1985 and did research there and at Suzhou University from 1989 to 1991. He received his PhD in East Asian Literature from Cornell University in 1994, and since that year he has been on the faculty of the Chinese Department at Middlebury College, where he teaches modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film, as well as Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin). He directed Middlebury’s CV Starr School Abroad in Beijing in 2011 and in 2012 did research there as a Fulbright Scholar.

He has edited or co-edited and contributed to three volumes on Chinese writers for the Dictionary of Literary Biography series and has published translations of Chinese short stories, plays, poems and essays. He lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont, USA with his wife, the painter Rebecca Purdum