Trevor Menders

Trevor works broadly on medieval to modern Japanese art. His dissertation, “Dancing with Genji: Painting, Politics, and Performance in Seventeenth Century Japan,” writes across disciplinary boundaries to investigate the relationship between visual culture and stage arts under the early Tokugawa shogunate. He is currently a Smithsonian Institution Fellow at the National Museum of Asian Art, having also received major support from Dumbarton Oaks. His fieldwork at Osaka University and Tokyo University of the Arts was underwritten by Fulbright Japan and the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies.

Trevor’s research has garnered recognition from Japan Art History Forum’s Chino Kaori Memorial Prize; Harvard’s Bowdoin Prize; and The Asiatic Society of Japan’s Young Scholars’ Programme. He has worked for Joan B Mirviss LTD Japanese Ceramics and Fine Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art; authored translations for institutions from Christie’s to the Kyoto National Museum; taught at Harvard and Alfred Universities; and attended both the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies and the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies. He holds a BA (hons) cum laude in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.