Robert Dassanowsky is Professor of German and Film, and Director of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and works as an independent film producer. A past president of the Austrian Studies Association, he is a member of both PEN USA and PEN Austria, serves on the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Translation/Publication Committee, and as founding board member of the Alexander Lernet-Holenia Society. He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Academy of Austrian Film, the European Film Academy, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His non-fiction books include Austrian Cinema: A History (2005), New Austrian Cinema ed. with Oliver Speck (2011), Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metafilm, ed. (2012), World Film Locations: Vienna ed. (2012), and Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933-1938 (2018).