Dr. Khanyabnejad was born in 1969 in Khorramshahr. In 1993, he received his bachelor's degree in French Language and Literature from Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, summa cum laude. In the same year, he was accepted in the master's degree program of French Language and Literature at the University of Tehran, and in 1995, he successfully completed this program. Since then, he has been employed at Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz and began teaching in the French Language and Literature Department of this university. In 2003, he received his Mphil. degree in comparative literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. In 2008, he completed his doctoral program in comparative literature at the same university.