Rate My Professor Andrew Hui

Andrew Hui is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He holds a BA from St. John’s College, Annapolis, and a PhD in comparative literature from Princeton University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford, he joined Yale-NUS College in 2012 as Assistant Professor of Humanities (Literature) and was promoted to Associate Professor. In 2025, he transitioned to his current position at NUS. Hui’s research focuses on Renaissance studies and comparative literature, with particular interests in the history of knowledge, the migration of ideas, aphorisms, ruins, and libraries. He is the author of three books: The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature (2016), A Theory of the Aphorism from Confucius to Twitter (2019), and The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries (2022). His work has been translated into seven languages and reviewed in outlets such as the New Yorker and Wall Street Journal. Hui has received the NUS Young Researcher Award in 2019 and held fellowships at the Warburg Institute in London, Villa I Tatti in Florence, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2023–24. He is currently working on projects including The Marvelous Universe of Journey to the West and The Emperor’s Maze: The Jesuits in China and the Making of a Global Age.