Melanie Enderle

 Melanie Enderle

History of Western Art Instructor

Biography:

Melanie Enderle has been teaching art history at Bellevue College since 2016. Melanie also regularly teaches at University of Washington, Seattle Central College, and has taught at Cornish College of the Arts and at the University of Sichuan in Chengdu, China. Additionally, Melanie has worked as a Museum Educator at Seattle Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Melanie earned a MA degree in British art history and literature at Reading University in the UK and PhD in art history from the University of Washington.

She has presented papers at institutions including Oxford University, St. Andrews University, University of London, the Huntington Library, Santa Clara University, Seattle Art Museum, the Panthéon-Sorbonne, and American University, Paris.

Melanie has published a number of articles including “The Reflective Eye of Walter Sickert: Mirroring Male Victorian Dominance in the Era of the New Woman,” “Windows on the Soul: Portraits by Major American Artists,” “Brawn vs. Beauty in American Brandywine and British Pre-Raphaelite Images of Arthurian Legend,” “Justice for Jane: A Mid-Twentieth Century Confrontation between an Artist, His Patron, and a Modern Woman,” and “Tomboys, Girly-girls, and Little Ladies: Challenges and Transitions to Gender Norms in Late-Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Art.”