Hui-Wen Lu PhD
Graduate Institute of Art History,
National Taiwan University
Hui-Wen Lu PhD

Professor
Graduate Institute of Art History,
National Taiwan University
No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei, Taiwan 10617
Tel: +886-2-33669405
E-mail: hwlu@ntu.edu.tw
Education
2003
Ph.D., Princeton University
Department of Art and Archaeology
Dissertation:
"A New Imperial Style of Calligraphy: Stone Engravings in Northern Wei Luoyang, 494-534"
Advisor: Professor Wen C. Fong
M.A., Princeton University
Department of Art and Archaeology
1999
M.A., National Taiwan University
Graduate Institute of Art History
Thesis:
"Reconfiguring Cultural Identities in Mongol Yuan China: Kangli Naonao (1295-1345) and His Calligraphy"
Advisor: Professor Shen C. Y. Fu
1996
1993
A.B., National Taiwan University
Economics
Teaching
2021 - present
2020 - present
2013 - 2021
2009 - 2013
2008 - 2009
2004 - 2008
2002 - 2003
Professor, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Chair, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Assistant Professor, Center for General Education and Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan
Visiting Instructor of Art and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, USA
Curatorial
2024 - present
2021 - 2024
2003 - 2004
Director, NTU Art Museum, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Director, Preparatory Office of the Art Museum, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Asian Art, the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA
Visiting Scholar
2025
2019
2019
2016
2013 - 2014
Visiting Professor at Princeton University, USA
Visiting Scholar at Free University, Berlin, Germany
Visiting Scholar at University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Visiting Scholar at the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Other Academic Activities (select)
2024
Co-organizer of “Crossing: New Approaches to the Material Cultures of the Sui and Tang Empires” International Conference, October 26-27, National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
2022
Organazier of 交流與嬗變:書法史研究新秀工作坊 in National Taiwan University, March 4.
2019
Co-leader of “Collaborative Reading Workshop: High Tang Texts on Calligraphy,” Stanford University, August 21-23.
2017
Organizer of “Workshop of Tang Calligraphy: Practice and Theory,” in collaboration with University of California, Santa Barbara and Stanford University. Funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, September 15-16.
2016
Co-leader of “Collaborative Reading Workshop: High Tang Texts on Calligraphy by Zhang Huaiguan and Others” funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and ACLS Program in China Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 5-9.
2016
Co-leader of “Chinese Object Study Workshop: Chinese Calligraphy,” funded by the Mellon Foundation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 29-September 2.
2015
Instructor of “Object Study Workshop,” National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, August 24-29.
2011
Co-organizer of “International Symposium on Visual Culture in the Era of Emperor Qianlong,” held at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 15-16.
2008
Organizer of “Rethinking the Written Word: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Chinese Calligraphy,” held at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1-2.
Honors and Awards
2024
2018
2013 - 2014
2012
2008
2000 - 2001
1999 - 2000
1996 - 1999
Award for Excellence in Teaching, National Taiwan University.
Award for Excellence in Teaching, National Taiwan University.
TUSA (Top University Strategic Alliance) scholar to Harvard University (Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture).
Award for Excellence in Teaching, National Taiwan University.
Award for Excellence in Teaching, Center for General Education, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.
Jane and Morgan Whitney Art History Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Financial Award for Studying Abroad, Taiwan Ministry of Education.