Andreas Huyssen (born 1942) is the Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he taught beginning in 1986.

He studied at several European universities in Madrid, Cologne, Paris, and Munich.

His work has appeared in translation in Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, French, and other languages.

[4] He is currently working on a book assembling and expanding his collected essays on the contemporary visual arts.

Huyssen is a longtime friend of Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, and often hosts him when the writer comes to the U.S.[6][7] The two teach an undergraduate class together at Columbia called "Words and Pictures," which examines problems of visual representation in literature, particularly theories of ekphrasis.