Doctoral Candidate in History of Art and Women's Studies • Fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor • Freie Universität
Elizabeth Otto is a doctoral candidate in the History of Art and Women's Studies departments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität. Her dissertation focuses on photomontage and the imagery of bodily fragmentation as emblematic of avant-garde art in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) in Germany. Otto is currently curating an exhibition entitled "Photo-Montage: Marianne Brandt" for the Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin (2003; bilingual catalogue will appear under the same name). She has taught courses in art history, the history of photography and women's studies in Canada, the U.S. and Germany.