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Nora M. Alter

Vice-President / President Elect of Women in German

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
nma@clas.ufl.edu

Germanic Studies
nma@clas.ufl.edu
352-392-2101 ext. 202
curriculum vitae

Expertise

Twentieth century film, literature and theory, comparative literature (French, German, and American), cultural studies and visual studies.

Biography

Nora M. Alter is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. She is affiliate faculty in the Programs in European Studies, Jewish Studies, and Woman and Gender Studies. Her teaching and research have been focused on twentieth century cultural and visual studies from a comparative perspective. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (1996), Projecting History: Non-Fiction German Film (2002), co-editor with Lutz Koepnick of Sound Matters:Essays on the Acoustics of Modern German Culture (2004) and Chris Marker (2006). She has contributed essays to collections on film, cultural studies, and visual studies and published articles in journals including Camera Obscura, Cultural Critique, New German Critique, The Germanic Revie, and Film Quarterly. She has been awarded year long research fellowships from the NEH, the Howard Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2005 she was awarded the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies and the Florida Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Award. She is currently completely a new book on the international essay film. Dr. Alter also serves on the editorial board of "The Germanic Quarterly"

Awards

• 2005
  DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies
• 2005
  Distinguished Faculty Award from Florida Blue Key for her
  outstanding service and dedication to the University Florida.

Publications

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