Melanie Trede#

Present and Previous Positions

• 2011, 09 - 2012, 05: Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• since 2004, 04: Professor, Centre for East Asian Studies, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
• 1999, 09 - 2004, 01: Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Specialty: History of Japanese Art
• 1999, 01 - 1999, 06: Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York
• 1996, 11 - 1999, 12: Assistant Professor, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
• 1991, 10 - 1993, 09: Member of research and editorial staff of the exhibition and catalogue "Japan and Europe 1543-1929" (exhibition: Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Fall 1993), Berlin Festival / Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University

• History of Japanese art
• Pictorial narratives
• Gender issues in the visual field
• Political iconographies
• Art historiography and terminologies
• Collecting histories
• Exhibition strategies

• 2012, 11 Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
• 2007, 10 - 2008, 07 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
• Academic year 2005/06 The Image of Jingu kogo from the mid 19th to the early 20th centuries, research scholarship, Kajima bijutsu zaidan (Kajima Art Foundation)
• 1996, 04 - 1996, 10 Dissertation scholarship, Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation
• 1995, 04 - 1996, 03 Dissertation scholarship, Kasumi Kaikan Foundation, Tokyo
• 1994, 06 - 1995,03 Dissertation scholarship, Japanese Foreign Ministry

Curriculum Vitae

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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