European and US-American art and visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present; issues of gender, history, and theory; and the history of photography, film, and media culture
Elizabeth Otto joined UB’s faculty in 2004 and now serves as director of the Humanities Institute. Her current book project and related co-curated exhibition (opening in Weimar Germany in summer 2024) focuses on members of Germany’s Bauhaus art and design school under Nazism.
Books
Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics, MIT Press, 2019. Winner of the Northeast Popular Culture Association's Peter C. Rollins Book Prize
Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective (with Patrick Rössler), English edition: Bloomsbury UK; German edition: Knesebeck Verlag, 2019.
Tempo, Tempo!: The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt, Jovis Verlag/Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Museum of Design; Harvard Art Museums; and the International Center for Photography, New York, 2005.
Edited Books
Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School, (with Patrick Rössler), Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
4 "Bauhausmädels": Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Margarete Heymann, Margaretha Reichardt (with Patrick Rössler, Kai-Uwe Schierz, and Miriam Krautwurst), Sandstein Verlag, 2019. Bilingual catalogue to the co-curated exhibition at the Angermuseum, Erfurt, and in Berlin at the Thuringian State Federal Representaton Building. Exhibition
Passages of Exile (with Burcu Dogramaci), 2017, Edition Text + Kritik, 2017.
New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (with Vanessa Rocco), The University of Michigan Press, 2011.
Selected Recent Publications, Talks, and Conference Organization
“Kommunistischer Aktivismus nach dem Bauhaus: Willi Jungmittags Arbeiterfotografie und der Wiederstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus” [Communist Activism after the Bauhaus: Willi Jungmittag’s Worker Photography and Resistance to National Socialism]. Linke Waffe Kunst: Die Kommunistische Studentenfraktion am Bauhaus(Edition Bauhaus Nr. 60). Eds. Wolfgang Thöner, Florian Strob, and Andreas Schätzke. Basel: Birkenhäuser/Bauwelt Fundamente: 2022, 233–49.