Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede
Studium
Berufliche Laufbahn
Stipendien, Förderungen & Auszeichnungen
Tenure & Promotion Letters
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
Studium
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
Berufliche Laufbahn
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
Stipendien, Förderungen & Auszeichnungen
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
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)
