from the Department of Western Languages and Literature at National Chengchi University, his M.A. in the Department of English at Brigham Young University, his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, he has been visiting professor at both Chengchi and Sun Yat-sen Universities.
張錯，原名張振翔，廣東惠陽人，一九四三年生，國立政治大學西洋語文學系學士，美國柏罕楊大學英文系碩士，西雅圖華盛頓大學比較文學博士，現任教洛杉磯南加州大學比較文學系，並曾分任國立政治大學及國立中山大學外文系客座教授。