JUDITH FRYER DAVIDOV is professor of English and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she also directed the graduate program in American Studies for several years. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, Washington, D. C., where she was a Mellon Senior Fellow, and two senior Fulbright awards, a professorship in American Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and the Bicentennial Chair of American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.




Judith Davidov lives in Leverett, Massachusetts, with her standard poodles, Willa and Rosie (Her daughters, Lynn and Deborah, live in Boulder, CO, and Cambridge, MA.). She is an amateur harpsichordist, a serious gardener, woodswalker, cross-country skiier, and canoe paddler. Here she is with the apple of her eye, new granddaughter, Miriam.





Publications include essays on women's roles in American society, American literature and culture, photography and American culture, and, in addition to Women's Camera Work, two books: The Faces of Eve: Women in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel (Oxford University Press, 1976) and Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather (University of North Carolina Press, 1986). New projects include a collection of essays on photography called "Character Studies" and a book on photography, place, and memory.