Elizabeth Otto
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Academic background
Alma materOberlin College
Queen's University at Kingston
University of Michigan
ThesisFiguring gender : photomontage and cultural critique in Germany's Weimar Republic (2003)

Elizabeth Otto (born 1970) is an American art historian known for her feminist work on the Bauhaus. She is a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Biography

Born in 1970, Otto has a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. from Queen's University at Kingston.[1] In 2003 she received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Michigan.[2]

Otto is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the State University of New York at Buffalo[1] From 2013–2019, she was the Executive Director of the University at Buffalo's Humanities Institute.[2] Otto is the author of the books Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics (2019)[3][4] and Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt (2005).[5] With Patrick Rössler, she co-authored Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective.[6][7]

Otto has received fellowships from the National Humanities Center,[8] the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art,[9] the Getty Research Institute,[10] and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 "Elizabeth Otto". arts-sciences.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  2. 1 2 "A Conversation with Alumna Elizabeth Otto | U-M LSA History of Art". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  3. ↑ Reviews of Haunted Bauhaus:
  4. ↑ "Books interview: Elizabeth Otto". Times Higher Education (THE). 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  5. ↑ Reviews of Tempo, Tempo!:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Bauhaus Women:
  7. ↑ ""Queer Bauhaus with Libby Otto" | Penn History of Art". arth.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  8. ↑ NHC (2017-03-29). "National Humanities Center Names Fellows for 2017-18". National Humanities Center. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  9. ↑ "CASVA Announces 2019–2020 Academic Year Appointments". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  10. ↑ "Scholar Year 2021/2022 (Getty Research Institute)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  11. ↑ "Dr. Elizabeth Otto". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
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