School of Arts
Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- School of Arts Sainsbury Senior Lecturer in Japanese Art
- Department
- School of Arts
- Building
- SOAS Philips Building
- Office
- P504
- Email address
- eb49@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer is an art historian specialising in modern Japanese art.
She is an Associate Professor in Japanese Arts, Culture, and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Before joining the Sainsbury Institute in 2018, she received her PhD from Heidelberg University and held postdoctoral positions at Emory University, Atlanta, GA and Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington DC.
Eugenia is the author of Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde (Japanese Visual Culture Series 19, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020), and she is currently working on her second book project on the history of calligraphy modernisation in East Asia.
Research interests
- Postwar art in Japan
- Modern calligraphy history in East Asia
- Transcultural studies
- Abstract art
- The relationship between image and language in modern Japan
