Melody Davis is the author of two books, The Male Nude in Contemporary Photography (Temple University Press, 1991); and The Center of Distance (poems from Troy, ME: Nightshade Press, 1992). She has been the recipient of fellowships from the N.E.A., the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Henry Luce/A.C.L.S. Dissertation Grants, and MetroArts (Harrisburg, PA). Her articles have been published in The History of Photography ("Lee Miller: Bathing with the Enemy"); Art Journal ("Personality Versus Physique: George Platt Lynes"; "An Essential Reprint in Stereography"); Paragraph (Nottingham, U.K.: "Freak Flag: Humour and the Photography of George Dureau"); Millennium Film Journal ("Fernand Léger's Ballet Mécanique and the Culture of Fetishization"); and The Susquehanna Art Museum's Grace Hartigan: Paintings from Popular Culture (2000) and Robin Stanaway Project/Reflect (2000). She lives on Buffalo Mountain, in Liverpool, PA and is writing a dissertation, "Doubling the Vision: Women in Narrative Stereography, The United States, 1870-1910."

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