목민심서』 200주년을 기념한 『역주 목민심서』 전면개정판 작업의 교열을 맡았다. 민족문학사연구소 공동대표, 성균관대 대동문화연구원장, 동아시아학술원장, 연세대 용재석좌교수 등을 역임했다. 현재 성균관대 명예교수, 계간 『창작과비평』 편집고문이다. 한문학을 중심으로 국문학‧역사‧사상에 걸쳐 폭넓은 연구와 저술 활동을 하고 있으며, 실학의 원전을 발굴‧편역한 것으로 『백운 심대윤의 백운집』 『반계유고』가 있다. 도남국문학상‧만해문학상‧단재상‧다산학술상‧인촌상 등을 수상했다.
Born in 1943 in Yeong’am, South Jeolla Province, Lim Hyung-taek studied classical Korean literature (BA and MA) at Seoul National University. Currently a professor at Sungkyunkwan University and the joint head of the Society for Korean Literary History, he has received the 15th Manhae Prize for Literature for his Practical Koreanology. He has authored: Perspectives on the History of Korean Literature, Narrative Poems from the Joseon Dynasty, The Logic and System of the History of Korean Literature, A Treatise on the History of Modern Korean Literature, and A Reappraisal of Im Ggok-jeong; translated and edited A Collection of Short Sino-Korean Fiction from the Joseon Dynasty; co-translated The Complete Works of Baekho, Translated and Annotated; and edited East Asian Literature in an Age of Transition.
