Melanie Trede
 

Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede

PhD
M.A.
Recommendations of students

Supervisory work

PhD

completed

  • 2010 (Heidelberg University):
    Mio Wakita: "In the guise of elusive veracity": a visual construct of Meiji femininity in Kusakabe Kimbei's souvenir photographs in the age of visual modernity"
  • 2010 (Heidelberg University):
    Anton Schweizer: “The Ōsaki Hachimangū Shrine in Sendai and the Phenomenon of Lacquered Architecture in Momoyama Japan”
  • 2008 (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU):
    Rosina Buckland: “Traveling Bunjin to Imperial Household Artist: Taki Katei (1830–1901) and the Transformation of Literati Painting in Late Nineteenth-century Japan”

in preparation

Mari Takamatsu, Carola Wanke, Sabine Neumann, Beatrice Hoeller,
Chen Ya

Second reader

Intramural:

  • Tassilo Reiner, 2010
  • Lukas Nickel, 2008
  • Christian Unverzagt, 2007
  • and additional intramural supervisions

Extramural:

  • Wu Ruoming, The Origins of Kraak Porcelain in the Late Ming Dynasty, PhD Heidelberg University, 2013
  • Qu Yi, Unter einem Himmel aber auf chinesischer Erde. Die Illustrationen im ersten chinesischen Leben Jesu Christi (Tianzhu jiangsheng chuxiang jingjie) von 1637, PhD Heidelberg University, 2013
  • Eva Zhang, Ostasien in Europa – Visualisierungsstrategien Europäischer Fremdwahrnehmung der Frühen Neuzeit, PhD Heidelberg University, 2012
  • Lena Fritsch, The Body as a Screen: Japanese Art Photography of the 1990s, PhD Bonn University, 2010
  • Clemente Beghi, Changing aspects of the ‘Immovable One’. A Study of the multiple forms and functions of a single esoteric Buddhist deity, PhD University of Cambridge, Selwyn College, 2009
  • Beate Löffler, Fremd und Eigen. Christlicher Sakralbau in Japan seit 1853, PhD Technical University, Dresden, 2009
  • Alice Buschmeier, Die Kunst des Krieges: Der Kriegsmaler Fujita Tsuguji (1937-1945), M.A. Humboldt University, Berlin, 2009
  • Lukas Nickel, Gräber der Han-Zeit in Luoyang, PhD Heidelberg University, 2008
  • Monika Hinkel, Toyohara Kiyochika (1835-1900) Eine Untersuchung seiner Meiji-zeitlichen Farbholzschnitte unter besonderer Betrachtung der Rezeption von bunmei kaika (Zivilisation und Aufklärung), PhD Bonn University, 2007
  • Christian Unverzagt, Der lange Schatten des Ursprungs: Untersuchungen zum Wandlungsleib des Dong Yuan, PhD Heidelberg University, 2005
  • Sueyling Tsai, Woodblock Illustrated Books on the Life of the Buddha in China and in Korea, PhD Heidelberg University, 2005
  • Miwako Tezuka, Jikken Kôbô ‪(Experimental Workshop)‬: ‪Avant-garde Experiments in Japanese Art of the 1950s‬, PhD Columbia University, 2005‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
  • Sarah Elizabeth Thompson, ‪The War of the Twelve Animals (Jūnirui Kassen Emaki)‬: ‪A Medieval Japanese Illustrated Beast Fable‬, PhD Columbia University, 1999‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
  • Lena Fritsch, Bonn University, 2010
  • Clemente Beghi, University of Cambridge, Selwyn College, 2009
  • Beate Löffler, Technical University, Dresden, 2009
  • Monika Unkel, Bonn University, 2007

 

 

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M.A.

completed

  • “qualifying papers,” completed at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University:
    Satoko Ezaki (2000), Allison Unruh (2001), Jongwoo Kim (2001), Charlotte Druckman (2001), Heather Horton (2001), Miwako Fujii Wakimura (2002), Michele Wijegoonaratna (2002), April Jacobs (2002), Maia Nam (2002), Rosina Buckland (2002), Mari Takamatsu (2002), Mayumi Ikeda (2003), Sara Bauer (2003)
  • M.A. theses completed at Heidelberg University:
    Cora Würmell (2006), Steffi Kupka (2007), Chen Pi-hua (2007), Christian Numrich (2007), Jens Bartel (2008), Sabine Neumann (2010), Chen Ya (2010), Dinah Zank (2010), Eugenia Bogdanowa (2011), Maria Yakovleva (2012), Britta Schmitt (2012), Katharina Rode (2012), Thorsten Kerp (2012)

in preparation

Nicole Dahley, Alexander Greß, Sakai Kimiko, Carina Rohde, Miriam Stamme, Nathali Stumpf

Second reader

Intramural:

  • countless theses

Extramural:

  • Alice Buschmeier, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2009

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Recommendations of students

  • 2014
    Beatrice Höller: 6 month scholarship for doctoral research at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, DAAD
  • 2013 - 2014
    Beatrice Höller: 5 month scholarship for doctoral research, EH Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Hochbegabten
  • 2011 - 2013
    Beatrice Höller: three year dissertation scholarship; State Scholarship for Graduate Students, Baden-Württemberg
  • 2011 - 1012
    Beatrice Höller: one year research scholarship for Kyoto University; Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)
  • 2011/12
    Sabine Neumann: Internship at the Clark Center for Japanese Art, Hanford
  • 2010/11
    Eugenia Bogdanowa, scholarship for the last year as MA by Gerhard C. Starck Stiftung
  • since Fall 2010
    Irene Piepenbrock: membership at the Heidelberg Graduate School of Humanities
  • 2009
    Anton Schweizer: 6 month write-up dissertation scholarship; State Scholarship for Graduate Students, Baden-Württemberg
  • 2008 - 2011
    PhD fellowship for Carola Wanke, Friedrich-Naumann Stiftung, membership at the Heidelberg Graduate School of Humanities
  • 2008 - 2011
    PhD fellowship for Julika Singer, Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg University
  • 2008
    Cora Würmell: internship at the Clark Center for Japanese Art, Hanford (subsequently hired as curator for Asian ceramics, Collection at the Zwinger Castle, Dresden)
  • since 2006
    Mio Wakita: various successful travel and research grants for PhD candidates (a.o. Toshiba International Foundation)
  • 2006
    Meghen Jones: publication of an article on modern ceramics in Schulenburg, Stephan Graf von der, ed.: Faszination Keramik/The Fascination of Ceramics Moderne Meisterwerke in Ton aus der Sammlung Gisela Freudenberg, Frankfurt: Museum for Applied Arts
  • 2005 / 2006
    Mio Wakita and Anton Schweizer: job as editorial staff for exhibition catalogue Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection
  • 2004
    Rosina Buckland: organization of exhibition and publication of the catalogue (Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens in New York Collections, New York: Asia Society, 2004).
  • 2003
    Rosina Buckland: participation in the AAS panel in “Animals in Japanese art.” Subsequent publication of her contribution (“The Message of the Monkeys,” Oriental Art vol. XLIX, no. 5 (2004), pp. 2-10).
  • 2001/2002
    Kenji Kajiya (graduate student at IFA) publication of seminar paper in Impressions.
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