Material Text Cultures - Collaborative Research Centre 933 of the German Research Foundation at Heidelberg University

Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede

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East Asian History of Art
Department of East Asian History of Art

Telephone: (0)6221–54 15376
E-Mail: melanie.trede@zo.uni-heidelberg.de

RESEARCH INTERESTS

history of Japanese art
illuminated narratives
gender issues in the visual field
political iconographies
art historiography and terminologies
collecting histories
exhibition strategies
digital art history

Address

Institute of East Asian Art History
Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies
Heidelberg University
Voss Straße 2, building 4210
69115 Heidelberg, Germany

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

September 1980 - August 1981: Abbotsholme School, Staffordshire, England, English boarding school, A-level courses in European history and English literature
April 1984 - February 1988: Free University Berlin, Germany, Major: History of European Art, Italian Studies, Japanese Studies (B.A.)
March 1988 - March 1989: Waseda University, Tokyo, Major: Japanese Language
April 1989 - May 1994: Heidelberg University, Germany, Major: History of East Asian Art (M.A.)
June 1994 - October 1996: Gakushûin University, Tokyo, Postgraduate Studies in the History of Japanese Art
January 1999: Completion of 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, external reader: Prof. Burglind Jungmann
July 1999: PhD dissertation award “summa cum laude”, Heidelberg University.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August-September 1986: Internship, National Gallery, Berlin
March-April 1987: Internship, Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne
February-March 1989: Internship, Department of Painting and Prints, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Yokohama
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, University of Heidelberg.
March 1996: Participant of the 5th International Workshop on Japanese Art History for Junior Scholars (JAWS) in Japan.
November 1996-December 1998: Assistant Professor, Institute of East Asian Art History, Department of Art History, Heidelberg University.
January 1999 - June 1999: Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York.
September 1999 - January 2004: Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Specialty: History of Japanese Art
January – July 2003: Visiting Research Fellow, Gakushūin University, Faculty of Letters, Tokyo
since April 2004: Professor, Institute of East Asian Art History, Centre for East Asian Studies, Heidelberg University
October 2007 – July 2008: Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
September 2011 – May 2012: Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

LANGUAGES

Written and spoken: English, Japanese, Italian
Reading abilities: Chinese, French, Dutch, Latin

SCHOLARSHIPS GRANTS AND AWARDS

August - September 1991: travel and research grant for Japan, University Fund, Heidelberg University
June 1994 - March 1995: Dissertation scholarship, Japanese Foreign Ministry
April 1995 - March 1996: Dissertation scholarship, Kasumi Kaikan Foundation, Tokyo
April 1996 - October 1996: Dissertation scholarship, Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation
February / March 1997: Research grant, Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, Tokyo
October / November 1998: Seventeenth Century Pictorial Narratives, Research and Travel Grant from the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
June/July 2001: Ashikaga Patronage of Hachiman Paintings, Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation (AISF), Tokyo, summer grant
Fall 2001: Ashikaga Yoshinori’s Patronage of Hachiman Cult Paintings: Cultural Politics in the 1430s, research grant, The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto
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
January – July 2003: Visiting Research Fellow, Gakushûin University, Faculty of Letters, Tokyo
Academic year 2005/06: The Image of Jingu kogo from the mid 19^th to the early 20^thcenturies, research scholarship Kajima bijutsu zaidan (Kajima Art 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
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
October 2007 – July 2008: Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
September/October 2008: Travel Grant to deliver a paper in Tokyo, sponsored by the German Academic Research Association
September 2011 – May 2012: Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 2 – 9, 2012: Invitation as annual foreign guest speaker and visiting scholar by the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties

MEMBER OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS, ADVISORY BOARDS

Japanese Art Association (formerly: Ukiyoe Society of America, Inc.), board member, 2000-2003.
Japan Art History Society (Bijutsushi gakkai)
Japanese Art History Forum, USA
Foundation for Japanese-German Cultural Relations (JaDe), member of board, Cologne
Impressions, advisory and editorial board since 2002
Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte, Berlin
European Association of Japanese Studies
Association of Asian Studies, Inc.
Deputy Director, Advisory Board, Art Association, Heidelberg (Heidelberger Kunstverein), since July, 2009
Member, International Advisory Board, „Presentation of non-European Collections in the Humboldt-Forum,” Berlin National Museums, since 2010

RESEARCH MEMBER OF ACADEMIC PROJECTS

“Collecting Materials and Producing an Iconographic Index of Early Modern Japanese Printed Model Books in Foreign Collections”, organised by Ôta Shôko, Kanazawa Art University, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Japan (2003—2006)
“Studies of Women Artists and Images of Women in Modern Japan”, organised by Ikeda Shinobu, Chiba University, and Mabuchi Akiko, Meiji Gakuin, Tokyo, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Japan (2003—2006).
“Studies on the Transmission of Culture communicated by ‘Things’ and Images: Focussing on Japanese medieval literature and handscrolls,” organized by Ikeda Shinobu, Chiba University, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Japan (2008 — 2010).
Principal Investigator, deputy representative of research area B “Public Spheres” since 2007, member of various projects, among them:
- “Rethinking Gender, Body and Sexuality in a Transcultural Art World,” Series of four international, interdisciplinary workshops (2008-10), coordinator
  http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/b-public-spheres/b8.html
- “Historicizing the experience of violence without frontiers. Influence and importance of shifting asymmetries. The example of the Mongolian invasion in the thirteenth century,” together with Profs. Stefan Weinfurter, Susanne Enderwitz (2008-2011)
  http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/d-historicities-heritage/d1.html
- Parcours Exhibition: Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming…”, with Martina Köppel-Yang, Heidelberg, December 2009 — March 2010, coordinator
“Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows,” Cluster of Excellence (five-year project, 2007-2012), Heidelberg University.
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/home.html
“Bildkulturen” (Cultures of Images), interdisciplinary research group, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (2008 — 2011)
http://www.bbaw.de/bbaw/Forschung/Forschungsprojekte/Bildkulturen/de/Startseite
Project B07: Aspects of Mediality and Materiality of illuminated handscrolls in medieval Japan (Aspekte der Medialität und Materialität illuminierter Querrollen im mittelalterlichen Japan.)
http://www.materiale-textkulturen.de/teilprojekte.php#&panel1-12
“Materiale Textkulturen. Materialität und Präsenz in non-typographischen Gesellschaften” (Material text cultures: Materiality and Presence in non-typographical Societies), Special Interdisciplinary Research Consortium (Sonderforschungsbereich) 933, sponsored by the German Research Foundation (July 2011-June 2015), Heidelberg University
http://www.materiale-textkulturen.de/index.php

ORGANIZER OF PANELS, SYMPOSIA, AND LECTURE SERIES

October/November, 1997: three-week-fieldtrip to Japan for 15 graduate students in East Asian Art History, organizer, Heidelberg University
February 20, 1999: “Expanding Edo Art,” international workshop, co-organizer with Henry D. Smith II, Columbia University
September 1999-June 2002: Program director for the lecture series of the Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc. in New York and elsewhere
May 1, 2000: “Collecting ‘art’ in pre-Meiji Japan,” international workshop, organizer, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
August 11, 2001: “The Politics of Art Patronage in Japan,” panel, co-organizer with Alexander Hofmann, Second International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), Berlin
March 22 and 23, 2003: “Critical Horizons: A Symposium on Japanese Art in Memory of Chino Kaori,” international symposium, co-organizer with Melissa McCormick, and Joshua Mostow, co-hosted by Columbia University and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
March 29, 2003: “Objects in Pieces: The Culture of the Fragment in Japan”, panel, organizer, The Association of Asian Studies, New York City
October 26, 2004: “Second Chino Kaori Memorial `New Visions` Lecture” featuring Linda Nochlin: “Women Artists: The Japanese Impulse,” organizer, Heidelberg University
Since Spring 2005 – present: Institutionalization and Organization of the “Ishibashi Visiting Professorship in Japanese Art History” at Heidelberg University, sponsored by the Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, filled every semester with scholars from Japan, Europe and the US
August/September 2005: “No Borders to Cross: Challenging the Buddhist/Shinto, Sacred/Secular, and other (Alleged) Divides in Artistic Representations of Divinities,” panel, co-organiser with Cynthea Bogel, 11^th Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, Vienna
July 2007: “Gender and Art history in a Global Context,” international workshop, organizer, Heidelberg University
http://iko.uni-hd.de/imperia/md/content/fakultaeten/phil/zo/iko/konferenzen/20070722_prog_work_gender.pdf
April 20/21, 2009: “Theorizing Gender in a Transcultural World,” international workshop, organizer, cluster of excellence, Heidelberg University
http://iko.uni-hd.de/imperia/md/content/fakultaeten/phil/zo/iko/konferenzen/20090420-21_prog_work_gender.pdf
June 8/9, 2009: “Representations of Sexualities in Asian and European cultures,“ international workshop, convener, cluster of excellence, Heidelberg University
http://iko.uni-hd.de/imperia/md/content/fakultaeten/phil/zo/iko/konferenzen/20090608_prog_work_sexualities.pdf
June 10, 2009: “New Perspectives on pictorial narratives in Japan,” organizer, international workshop, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
http://iko.uni-hd.de/imperia/md/content/fakultaeten/phil/zo/iko/konferenzen/20090610_prog_work_genji.pdf
September 30 - October 1, 2009: Japanische Kunstgeschichten im globalen Kontext: Neue Beiträge zur Bild- und Objektanalyse. [Japanese art history in a global context: new Studies on Picture and Object analyses], Art History Section, convener, 14^th German-Speaking Japanese Studies Conference, University of Halle- Wittenberg
http://wcms.uzi.uni-halle.de/download.php?down=12490&elem=2172474
December 16/17, 2009: “Gender and Body in the Contemporary Arts,“ international workshop, convener, cluster of excellence, Heidelberg University
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/b-public-spheres/b8/gender-body.html
April – July, 2010: “Multi-centred modernisms – reconfiguring art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries” lecture series, co-organizer with Monica Juneja, Christiane Brosius; cluster of excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” Heidelberg University
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/d-historicities-heritage/d13.html
July 10-12, 2010: “Living Legacies: The History of East Asian Art Reconsidered,” international conference in honor of Lothar Ledderose, convener, Heidelberg University
http://iko.uni-hd.de/md/zo/iko/medien/veranstaltungen/20100710-12_symp_legacies.pdf
April 21, 2011: “Japanese art history in an intercultural exchange of science and practice,” convener, ‘Japan-day’ at Heidelberg University in celebration of the 150^th anniversary of German-Japanese relationships http://iko.uni-hd.de/md/zo/iko/media/events/2011/2011_0421_japantag_folder.pdf
September/October 2012: Kunstgeschichte und…?, Art History Section, convener, 15^thGerman-speaking Japanese Studies Conference, University of Zurich, Switzerland

PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPHS

REVIEWS: Melinda Takeuchi: Journal of Japanese Studies 32:1 (2006); Quitman Eugene Phillips: Artibus Asiae 66: 1 (2006), 198-202
Image, Text and Audience: The Taishokan Narrative in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period in Japan. Hamburg, New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 2003, 380pp.
REVIEWS: Sir Hugh Cortazzi: Arts of Asia (November 2008); Alida Becker: New York Times (7 December, 2008); Julie Davis: caa online review (December 9, 2009), http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1367; new edition: “Best art book of the year” in Sunday Times “Culture” (November 28, 2010); and many more reviews (see http://www.taschen.com/pages/de/catalogue/art/all/00343/clippings.hiroshige_one_hundred_famous_views_of_edo.6.htm)
Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, [co-authored with Lorenz Bichler], Cologne, New York: Taschen, 2007 (XXL series), 274pp. Republished in a smaller edition by Taschen, 2010.
The political and visual manipulation of myths in Japanese pictorial narratives (working title)

EDITED MONOGRAPHS

Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection; Kunst aus Japan: Die John C. Weber Sammlung, New York, editor of two separate exhibition catalogues in German and English (English version edited with Julia Meech), Berlin: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2006. [Associate Editor] Impressions. The Journal of the Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc., vol. 22 (Fall 2000).
REVIEWS: Frankfurter Rundschau December 11, 2009; Heinz-Norbert Jocks: KUNSTFORUM Vol. 201 (2010), 334-337; Monopol (February 2010); Marie Heidingsfelder: AVIVA-BERLIN.de (December 2010); among others
Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming…, exhibition catalogue, co-editor with Martina Köppel-Yang, Heidelberg: Kehrer Publishers, 2009.
Shifting Paradigms in East Asian Visual Culture: A Festschrift in Honour of Lothar Ledderose. Co-editor with Burglind Jungmann and Adele Schlombs, Berlin: Reimer Publishers, 2012.
Gender and Body in the Contemporary Arts. Co-editor with Monica Juneja, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag (prospected publisher), editing process (2012).

JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, CONTRIBUTIONS TO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Seven entries on the magazine Shirakaba (White Birch), in: Schamoni, Wolfgang / Wakabayashi, Misako (eds.): Buch und Literatur: Japan 1905-1931 (Book and Literature: Japan 1905-1931), Heidelberg 1990.
"Die Große Gewebekrone Taishokkan (The Great Woven Crown - Taishokkan)", in: Schlombs, Adele / Ströber, Eva (eds.): Quellen. Wasser in der Kunst Ostasiens (Streams - Water in the Art of East Asia), Hamburg / Cologne: Museum of East Asian Art 1992, 71-73.
"Das Bild der Fremden -- Nanban-Stellschirme und Genremalerei im Westlichen Stil des 16. und 17. Jahrunderts (Images of Strangers - Nanban Screens and Genre Painting in the Early Western Style of the 16th and 17th Centuries)"; "Begegnungen zweier Kulturen -- Nanban-Kunst und Kunstgewerbe (Encounter of Two Cultures - Nanban Arts and Crafts)", in: Croissant, Doris / Ledderose, Lothar (Hrsg.): Japan und Europa 1543-1929, Berlin: Argon Verlag 1993, 235-239, 243-247.
Morita, Yasukazu: "Der deutsche Holzschnitt und die Reformation (The German Woodblock Print and the Religious Reformation)", in: The National Museum of Western Art (ed.): Der deutsche Holzschnitt der Reformationszeit aus dem Besitz des Schloßmuseums / Museen der Stadt Gotha (German Woodblock Prints from the Period of the Religious Reformation - the Collection of the Schloßmuseum / Municipal Museum in Gotha) [Translation from Japanese into German], Tokyo: The National Museum of Western Art, 1995, 104-113.
"Takehisa Yumeji: Shuppan ('Abreise') [Departure]", and three more entries in: Kritter, Ulrich v. / Wakabayashi, Misako (eds.): Japanische Buchillustration 1850-1985 (Japanese Book Illustrations 1850-1985), Göttingen: Goltze Verlag 1996, 126-133; 172-175.
"The Ordering Vision: A Study in the Social Function of Early Edo Period Narrative Painting as Seen in an Album of Fan-Shaped Paintings", Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies 41 (1996), 74-92.
「ケルン東洋美術館所蔵　「大織冠絵」の受容美学的考察」　“Kerun tôyô bijutsukan shozô no juyô bigakuteki kôsatsu (The 'Taishokan' Paintings in the Cologne Museum of East Asian Art -- A Study in the Theory of Reception Aesthetics),” Bijutsushi 141 (October 1996), 45-63.
“Shikaku ni yoru shôri: Nihon kinsei shoki monogatari kaiga ni okeru nitchû kankei no hyôgen to kaiga media no yakuwari [Victory via vision: Representations of “China” and the role of medium in Japanese pictorial narrative of the 17th century]”, in: Nishi Kazuo (ed.): Kenchikui no mawaributai: Jidai to dezain o kataru [The turning stage of architectural history: a story told by time periods and design], Tokyo: Shôkokusha, 1999, 184-212.
“Kurashishizumu to kanon keisei: 17seiki Nihon kaiga ni tsuite no bijutsushi gensetsu (‘Classicism’ and Canon Formation: Art Historical Discourse on Seventeenth Century Japanese Painting)”, Bijutsu Forum 21 no. 5 (2001), 65-69.
“Terminology and Ideology: Coming to Terms with “Classicism” in Japanese Art Historical Writing”, in: Elizabeth Lillehoj (ed.): Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600-1700, Honolulu: Hawai’i Press 2003, 21-52.
“Appell an den Kriegsgott: Ikonographische Innovationen im Dienst politischer Rivalität,” [Appealing to the War Deity: Iconographic Innovations in the Service of Political Rivalry] in Pfetsch, Frank R., Hg.: Konflikt [Conflict], Heidelberger Jahrbücher, 2004, 255-277.
“Introduction” in Linda Nochlin: “Women Artists: the Japanese Impulse”, Second Chino Kaori Memorial “New Visions” Lecture, Kyoto: Medieval Japanese Studies Institute, 2005, 7-11.
„Lives of the Japanese Picture,“ in: Trede, Melanie, ed.: Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection; /
“Das wandelbare japanischen Bild”, in: Trede, Melanie, ed.: Kunst aus Japan: Die John C. Weber Sammlung, New York,
both: Berlin: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2006, 20-27.
近代国家の象徴としての古代女神――紙幣における「神功皇后」の表象―― (Kindai kokka no shôchô toshite no kodai megami: Shihei ni okeru ‘Jingû kôgô no hyôshô: Ancient Goddesses as Symbols of the Modern Nation State: The Representation of ‘Empress Jingû’ on Bank Notes), in Kajima bijutsu kenkyû 2006, 327-338.
“Comment/Komento, Session II: Lives and culture depicted in illustrated materials: the early modern period in East Asia”, in Kanagawa daigaku 21seiki COE puroguramu shinpojiumu hôkoku 4, dai 2kai kokusai shinpojiumu “Zuzô, mingû, keikan: Himoji shiryô kara jinrui bunka wo yomitoku: Kanagawa University 21^st Century COE Program Conference Series, Bulletin No. 4: The 2^nd International Symposium: “Interpreting Human Culture through nonwritten materials: Perspectives on Illustrated Material, Folk Implements and Landscape [in Japanese and English], edited by the 2^nd International Symposium Organizing Committee, Yokohama: Kanagawa daigaku 21seiki COE puroguramu, 2007, 145-150.
“Edo: Images of a city between visual poetry and idealized reality / Edo: Bilder einer Stadt zwischen visueller Poesie und idealisierter Wirklichkeit / Images d’une ville entre poésie visuelle et réalité idéale”, in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Cologne, New York: Taschen, 2007, 7-27.
“Banknote Design as a Battlefield of Gender Politics and National Representation in Meiji Japan,” in Performing “Nation”: Gender Politics in Literature, Theater, and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880—1940, edited by Doris Croissant, Catherine Vance Yeh, and Joshua Mostow, Leiden: Brill, 2008, 55-104.
http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=30941
“Ostasiatische Kunst, 3. Japan” [East Asian Art, 3. Japan], in Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit [Encyclopedia of the Early Modern Period], vol. 9 Naturhaushalt – Physiokratie, Stuttgart: Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung/C.E. Poeschel Verlag, 2009, 629-633.
“Vorwort: Körperkunst / Preface: Body Art,” in Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming…, 2009, 7-11.
“Eikyô gonen Hachiman engi emaki no ‘shôgai” to sono ‘yosei’”「永享五年八幡縁起絵巻の「生涯」とその「余生」」 “The Life and Afterlives of Hachiman Paintings (1433 CE)” [in Japanese], in Chûsei kaiga no matorikkusu 『中世絵画のマトリクス』 [The Matrix of Medieval Painting], edited by Sano Midori and Shinkawa Tetsuo 佐野みどり・新川哲雄編, Tokyo: Seikansha 青簡舎刊, 2010, 220-247.
“Eikyô gonen Hachiman engi emaki no ‘raifu” to sono ‘afutâraifu”「永享五年八幡縁起絵巻の「ライフ」とその「アフターライフ」」 “The Life and Afterlives of Hachiman Paintings dated to 1433 CE” [in Japanese], in The Potentialities of Works: To the Point that Japanese Literature Takes Form: 書物としての可能性―日本文学がカタチになるまで―, Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Japanese Literature 第34回国際日本文学研究集会会議録,人間文化研究機構, 国文学研究資料館, Tokyo: Kokubungaku kenkyû shiryôkan, 2011, 171-179.
“’Konda sôbyô engi emaki’ no denrai ni tsuite no ichikôsatsu 「『誉田宗廟縁起絵巻』の伝来についての一考察」[Thoughts on the transmission of the Illuminated Handscrolls of the Karmic Origins of the Konda Imperial Tumulus], Ajia yûgaku special issue “Interprétation des représentations relatives à la diffusion du savoir / 「文化創造と知の発信としての図像解釈」, edited by Abe Yasurô, Takahashi Tôru, and Itô Nobuhiro (Fall 2011).
“Pictorial Narratives”: Introduction and eight entries on narrative paintings, in Splendid Impressions. Japanese Secular Paintings 1400-1900 in the Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, edited by Doris Croissant. Leiden: Brill/Hotei, 2011, 43-117.
“Die Chineser stellen alles einfältig vor”: Schlaglichter auf europäisch-ostasiatische Auseinandersetzungen über Perspektive [“The Chinese render everything simple”: Examinations on Perspective between East Asia and Europe], in Bildkulturen. Die Perspektive im interdisziplinären Vergleich (Cultures of the Picture: The Perspective in interdisciplinary Comparison), edited by Christoph Markschies, Peter Deuflhard, Verena Lepper Berlin: Akademieverlag, 2012 (forthcoming).
“Kunstausstellungen als ästhetische und politische Inszenierung: Tokyo in Berlin, Berlin in Tokyo” [Art exhibitions as aesthetic and political performance: Tokyo in Berlin, Berlin in Tokyo],” in Die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin in der NS-Zeit 1933-1945 [The National Museum in Berlin during the era of National Socialism, 1933-1945], Schriftenreihe des Zentralarchivs zur Geschichte der Berliner Museen, vol. 2, edited by Jörn Grabowski, Wien Köln Weimar: Böhlau-Verlag, June 2013, in progress.

REVIEWS

"...und sogar die Soyasoßenflasche. Zur Ausstellung 'Japanische Kultur: Die fünfzig Nachkriegsjahre' (...And Even the Bottle of Soya Sauce: On the exhibition 'Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years')", Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst 16 (July 1996), 34-37.
Review article: Stephan von der Schulenburg (ed.): Mönche, Monster, Schöne Damen: Japanische Malerei, Buch- und Holzschnittkunst des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts, Ostasiatische Zeitschrift N.S. 1 (Spring 2001): 53-62.
“ANDREW M. WATSKY. Chikubushima

Further information about Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede here and on http://hachiman.uni-hd.de.