ELIZABETH OTTO
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Twentieth-Century European Art

Professor Otto’s work examines photomontage and the political, cultural and gendered valences of represented bodily fragmentation in interwar Germany.  Her other research interests include the relationship between popular and avant-garde visual cultures from the nineteenth century to the present, gendered neoclassicism and French cubism, and the history of photography.
 

• Recent Publications:
• Bauhaus Photomontage: the Works of Marianne Brandt (in progress).
• “The Secret History of Photomontage: Fragmentary Soldier Portraits from the Later Nineteenth Century through the Weimar Republic.” Weimar Publics – Weimar Subjects. Eds. Kerstin Barndt, Kathleen Canning and Kristin McGuire. Forthcoming, 2004.
• “Uniform: On Constructions of Soldierly Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century Visual Culture.” Kunst, Geschlecht, Politik. Männlichkeitskonstruktionen in der Moderne. Ed. Martina Kessel. Böhlau Verlag, forthcoming 2004.
• “Medium und Körper in Marianne Brandts Fotomontage me” [Medium and the Body in Marianne Brandt’s Photomontage me”]. Marianne Brandt – Fotografien am Bauhaus. Ed. Elisabeth Wynhoff. Trans. Axel Hase with Elizabeth Otto. Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2003, 32-40.
• “Memories of Bilitis: Marie Laurencin beyond the Cubist Context.” Genders 36 (Fall 2002).

• Prizes, Awards & Grants: Marty Memorial Fellowship, Queen’s University (2003); American Fellowship, the American Association of University Women, Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, the University of Michigan (2002-03); Visiting Scholar, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (2001-02); Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship, the Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan (2000-01); PEO Carolyn E. Conway Scholar Award (2000); Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Fellowship, Berlin, 1999-2000.

• Curatorial Experience: Curator of Bauhaus Photomontage: the Works of Marianne Brandt, the Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 2005.

Elizabeth Otto
610 Clemens Hall
645-2435 X 1081
eotto@buffalo.edu