Melanie Trede
 

Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede

University Education
Professional Experience
Scholarships, Grants & Awards
Tenure & Promotion Letters

Professional Career

University Education

July 1999

PhD dissertation award "summa cum laude", Heidelberg University

January 1999

PhD dissertation, Heidelberg University, “Image, Text and Audience: The Taishokan story in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period. Studies of Pictorial Narrative in Japan,” advisor: Prof. Lothar Ledderose, second reader: Prof. Burglind Jungmann (UCLA)

June 1994 – October 1996

Gakushûin University, Tokyo
Postgraduate Studies in the History of Japanese Art

April 1989 – May 1994

Heidelberg University, Germany
Major: History of East Asian Art (M.A.)

March 1988 – March 1989

Waseda University, Tokyo
Major: Japanese Language

April 1984 – February 1988

Free University Berlin, Germany
Major: History of European Art, Italian Studies, Japanese Studies (B.A.)

July 1983

German highschool degree, Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium, Heidelberg (Grade: 1,8)

September 1980 – August 1981

Abbotsholme School, Staffordshire, England
English boarding school, A-level courses in European history and English literature

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Professional Experience

since January 2015

Chair (W3 Professorship), Institute of East Asian Art History, Centre for East Asian Studies, Heidelberg University

December 2014

Offer for the Chair of Asian Art History, Institute of Art History, Vienna University (turned down)

April 2013 – March 2014

Fellow, Marsilius-Kolleg, Heidelberg University

September 2011 – May 2012

Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

October 2007 – July 2008

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)

October 2005 – October 2006

Editor, Exhibition Catalogue (in English and German) "Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection;" commissioned by the National Museums in Berlin

April 2004 – December 2014

Full Professor (C3 Professorship),Institute of East Asian Art History, Centre for East Asian Studies, Heidelberg University

January – July 2003

Visiting Research Fellow, Gakushūin University, Faculty of Letters, Tokyo

September 1999 – January 2004

Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Specialty: History of Japanese Art

June 1999

Offer for the Assistant Professorship of Japanese Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University (turned down)

January 1999 – June 1999

Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York

November 1996 – December 1999

Assistant Professor
Institute of East Asian Art History, Department of Art History, Heidelberg University

March 1996

Participant of the 5th International Workshop on Japanese Art History for Junior Scholars (JAWS) in Japan

October 1991 – September 1993

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

February – March 1989

Internship, Department of Painting and Prints, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Yokohama

March – April 1987

Internship, Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne

August – September 1986

Internship, National Gallery, Berlin

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Scholarships, Grants & Awards

April 2013 – July 2014

Fellow, Marsilius-Kolleg, Heidelberg University

October 2012

Member, Academica Europaea

March 2 – 9, 2012

Annual guest speaker and visiting scholar, Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties

September 2011 – May 2012

Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

September / October 2008

Travel Grant to deliver a paper in Tokyo, sponsored by the German Academic Research Association

October 2007 – July 2008

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)

October 2007 – September 2012

Cluster of Excellence: “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows,” Heidelberg University, Principal Investigator; German Research Foundation

Summer 2007

The political and visual manipulation of myths in Japanese pictorial narratives,
The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto, research and travel grant

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)

January – July 2003

Visiting Research Fellow, Gakushûin University, Faculty of Letters, Tokyo

January – August 2002

Ashikaga Yoshinori’s Patronage of Hachiman Cult Paintings: Cultural Politics in the 1430s,
Culture Communication Fund, B.F., Tokyo and Amsterdam, research and travel grant

Fall 2001

Ashikaga Yoshinori’s Patronage of Hachiman Cult Paintings: Cultural Politics in the 1430s,
The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto, research grant

June / July 2001

Ashikaga Patronage of Hachiman Paintings
Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation (AISF), Tokyo, summer grant

October / November 1998

Seventeenth Century Pictorial Narratives,
Research and Travel Grant from the Tokyo, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties

February / March 1997

Research grant,
Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, Tokyo

April 1996 – October 1996

Dissertation scholarship,
Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation

April 1995 – March 1996

Dissertation scholarship,
Kasumi Kaikan Foundation, Tokyo

June 1994 – March 1995

Dissertation scholarship,
Japanese Foreign Ministry

August – September 1991

travel and research grant for Japan,
University Fund, Heidelberg University

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Tenure & Promotion Letters

  • UCLA (2006)
  • School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, 2006)
  • University of Pennsylvania (2007)
  • Columbia University (2008)
  • Harvard University (2009)
  • Harvard University (2011)
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