Andrew Hui
Assistant Professor of Humanities
Yale-NUS College
6 College Ave, East
nus.edu.sg
Singapore 138641
andrew.hui@yale(+65) 8228-6734
Academic Positions
2012-present
Assistant Professor of Humanities (Literature), Yale-NUS College
2012-13
Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
2009-2012
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University
Introduction to Humanities Program
Education
2003-2009
PhD, Princeton University
Department of Comparative Literature
Dissertation: “The Poetics of Ruins: Vestigia, Monuments, and Writing
Rome in Renaissance Poetry”
Advisor: Leonard Barkan
Committee: Jeff Dolven, Anthony Grafton, Alexander Nehamas
2007-2008
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Dissertation research and seminars in Italian literature with Lina Bolzoni and
history of ideas with Carlo Ginzburg
2002-2003
Yale Divinity School
Graduate coursework in biblical interpretation, medieval literature, sinology
1998-2002
BA, St. John’s College, Annapolis
Summer language studies at Middlebury College (Chinese and French),
Princeton-in-Beijing, Tsinghua University, Rome, Berlin, Warburg Institute
(Renaissance Latin)
Publications
Forthcoming
Marchesi
“Things in the Decameron,” Categories of the Decameron, ed. Simone
2013
“Horatio’s Philosophy in Hamlet,” Renaissance Drama 41.
2011
“The Textual City: Epic Walks in Virgil, Lucan, and Petrarch,” Oxford
Classical Reception Journal 3.2 (November).
2009
“Voice, Writing, and the Ovidian Play of Signs in Titus Andronicus,” in
Ovid’s Metamorphoses in English Poetry, eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and
Wolfgang Görtschacher. Wissenschaft und Kunst 10. Heidelberg:
Universitätsverlag Winter.
2008
“Texts, Monuments, and the Desire for Immortality,” in Moment to
Monument, The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance, eds. Ladina
Bezzola Lambert and Andrea Ochsner. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
Works in Consideration:
The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature, book manuscript, under
second review at Oxford University Press (Classical Presences series)
“The Birth of Ruins in Quattrocento Nativity and Adoration Paintings”
submitted to Harvard I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance
Works in Progress
“The Empty Text in Journey to the West”
“Dante’s Shadows”
“Shakespeare’s Stars”
“Virgil the Architect, Vitruvius the Poet: Buildings and Bodies in the
Aeneid and De Architectura”
“Trees in the Odyssey”
Awards and Honors
2015
2014
2009
2008
2008
2006-7
2007 & 2008
2006 & 2007
2006 & 2007
2006
2006
2005
2004
2002-8
2002
Brian Hewson Crawford Short-Term Fellowship, Warburg Institute, London
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar: Dante in Florence
Folger Institute, Washington D.C., grant-in-aid for participation in the
conference “China and the West, 1500-1700”
Stanley J. Seeger Traveling Fellowship in Greece from Hellenic Studies
Eric Kahler Summer Fellowship from Comparative Literature
Noah Cotsen Junior Fellowship for Undergraduate Teaching and Research
Dissertation Research Grant from Italian Studies
Joseph Croft Summer Fellowship from Comparative Literature
Princeton Institute for Regional Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Grant
Borsa di studio from Istituto Italiano, New York (declined)
Folger Institute, Washington D.C., grant-in-aid for Prof. Nigel Smith’s
Spring seminar “The State and Literary Production in Early Modern Europe”
Princeton University Graduate School Summer Grant
East Asian Studies Summer Language Grant
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship
Honorable Mention for Senior Essay, St. John’s College:
“Pride, Mimesis, and the End of Art in Purgatorio 10-12”
Conferences, Lectures, and Presentations
2015
2014
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
“Medieval Remains/ Renaissance Ruins” invited talk, “Material Artefacts:
Reading the Past through Archaeological Objects in Medieval British
Literature,” Freie Universität Berlin.
“On Aphoristic Thinking,” seminar at the American Comparative Literature
Association, NYU
“On crafting the first-year humanities curriculum at Yale-NUS College”
The Importance of Learning: Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical
Perspective conference, Princeton University
“The Anachronic Ruin”
The Uses and Abuses of Time conference, UNC Chapel Hill
“The Unfinished Work of Art in the Renaissance”
Renaissance Society of America panel organized
“Petrarch and Petrarchism”
radio appearance on Robert Harrison’s Entitled Opinions, KZSU
“Monuments, Mutability, and Poetic Mouvance,”
seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association, Providence, RI
“Of Monuments and Summer Grass: Shakespeare Reads Horace, Basho
Reads Du Fu,” research presentation, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
“Horatio’s Philosophy in Hamlet,”
IHUM Colloquium, Stanford University
“Shakespeare’s Copies in the Sonnets,”
seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America, Bellevue, Washington
“History and Anachronism in Renaissance Nativity Paintings and Poetry,”
seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association, Vancouver, BC
“Birth of Ruins and Cessation of Oracles in Renaissance Nativity Paintings
and Poetry” invited lecture, Department of Classics and General Humanities,
Montclair State University, NJ