Melanie Enderle is an art historian specializing in nineteenth and early twentieth-century American, British, and French art. Her research is sociocultural driven with a focus on images of modern daily life experiences, leisure entertainment, gendered behavior, and representations of women.

Enderle has been associated with the University of Washington as a regular, part-time lecturer since 2012. In addition to UW, she also teaches at Seattle Central College, Bellevue College, Seattle Pacific University, and has taught at Cornish College of the Arts and at the University of Sichuan in Chengdu, China. She has worked as a museum educator at Seattle Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Enderle has presented papers at institutions including Oxford University, St. Andrews University, University of London, the Huntington Library, Santa Clara University, Seattle Art Museum, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, the Panthéon-Sorbonne, and American University, Paris.

Recent conference presentations and published articles include “The Reflective Eye of Walter Sickert: Mirroring Male Victorian Dominance in the Era of the New Woman,” “The Empowered Ingénue: Women Stepping Out as Solo Performers Onstage,” “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," "The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood: Model Heroines of Literature," and "Tomboys, Girly-girls, and Little Ladies: Challenges and Transitions to Gender Norms in Late-Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Art."