Elisabeth Otto (2015-2018)

Department of Art History and Film Studies, Université de Montréal

Ph.D. in Art History

elisabeth.otto@umontreal.ca

Elisabeth Otto is currently working on a dissertation titled Art Histories of Unlearning: Emily Carr (1871–1945) and Gabriele Münter (1877–1962). After completing an M.A. in Business Administration, she studied art history, archeology and philosophy in Regensburg, Munich, and Montreal. In the first year of her Ph.D. program at the Université de Montréal, Otto was a Fellow in Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Since 2014, she has been a teaching assistant in the Université de Montréal’s Department of Art History and Film Studies and a research assistant in the Department of Comparative Literature in collaboration with the Warburg Institute in London. In addition to conducting research on women artists and 20th-century Primitivism, she is interested in the interrelations between European and North American art and art histories, and particularly in the mobility of artists, art historians and aesthetic concepts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.