Hua Hsu is an American writer and professor. He was born in 1977 to parents who had immigrated from Taiwan to study in the United States. Growing up in California, Hsu attended Berkeley where he received a BA in political science. He subsequently attended Harvard University where he earned a PhD in 2008.
After graduating from Harvard, Hsu was hired as an assistant professor at Vassar College and he began to write for publications including Slate and The Atlantic. In 2014 Hsu started writing for the New Yorker and in 2017 he became a staff writer. Since then, he has written on a range of topics including art and literary criticism. In 2022, Hsu was hired as a professor at Bard College.
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