Elizabeth Otto
Art historian (born 1970)
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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.
Elizabeth Otto | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 55–56) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College Queen's University at Kingston University of Michigan |
| Thesis | Figuring gender : photomontage and cultural critique in Germany's Weimar Republic (2003) |
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 is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.[8] She has also received fellowships from the National Humanities Center,[9] the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art,[10]
the Getty Research Institute,[11] and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[12]