Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer

Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer is Professor of Japanese Arts at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, affiliated to the University of East Anglia.

She is an art historian specialising in modern Japanese art. Before joining the Sainsbury Institute in 2018, she received her Ph.D. from Heidelberg University and held postdoctoral positions at Emory University, Atlanta, GA and Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C. Her research interests include postwar art in Japan; modern calligraphy history in East Asia; transcultural studies; abstract art; and the relationship between image and language in modern Japan. She is the author of Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde (Japanese Visual Culture Series 19, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020), and is currently working on her second book project on the history of calligraphy modernization in East Asia.

She is available to supervise PhD and MA projects in the areas of Japanese art history, transcultural studies, global postwar art, and the relationship between image and text, among others.