Nora Alter
Professor
Nora M. Alter received her PhD (1991) in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She is affiliate faculty in German Studies, Jewish Studies, Women and Gender Studies.
Professor Alter is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (Indiana University Press), Projecting History: Non-Fiction German Film (University of Michigan Press), Chris Marker (University of Illinois Press) and co-editor with Lutz Koepnick of Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of Modern German Culture (Berghahn Books). She has published over fifty essays on a broad range of topics including Film and Media Studies, German and European Studies Cultural and Visual studies and Contemporary Art. She has been awarded year long research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 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. From 2008–10 she is elected President of Women in German. She currently serves on the editorial board of The German Quarterly. She is currently completing a new book on the international essay film and has begun research on a new study devoted to sound.
Her teaching and research have been focused on twentieth century cultural and visual studies from a comparative perspective.
Contact and Further Information
- office: Turlington Hall 4219
- voice: (352) 392-6650
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <nma@ufl.edu>