Trevor Menders

Trevor Menders

Historical Japanese Arts
Trevor
Trevor works broadly on the history of Japanese art from the medieval through modern periods. His dissertation, advised by Dr. Yukio Lippit and Dr. Melissa McCormick, investigates paintings of live performance at the turn of the 17th century, working across disciplines to bring together critical study of the visual and performing arts. Trevor’s past research on related topics has garnered recognition from the Japan Art History Forum’s Chino Kaori Memorial Prize (2021) and Harvard University’s Bowdoin Prize (2022).Other current projects include a forthcoming essay on the politics of Japanese ceramics collecting in the late 19th century.

Trevor holds a BA cum laude in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University (2018), where he received departmental honors for his thesis on the 12th centuryYamai no sōshi “illness scrolls” advised by Dr. Matthew McKelway. He has worked for Joan B Mirviss LTD Japanese Fine Art; served as Warshawsky Fellow at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Fulbright Fellow at Tokyo University of the Arts; authored translations for institutions ranging from Christie’s to the Kyoto National Museum; and attended the Yokohama Inter-University Center as a Toshizo Watanabe Fellow. Currently, he is conducting dissertation research as a Fulbright Graduate Fellow at Osaka University.

 

 

 

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