Robert von Dassanowsky FRHistS, FRSA (born January 28, 1965) is an Austrian-American academic, writer, film and cultural historian, and producer. He is usually known as Robert Dassanowsky. Education, career and publications Dassanowsky was born in New York City. A student of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a graduate of UCLA (MA, PhD), where he also served as Visiting Professor of German, Dassanowsky is a widely published academician, independent film producer, playwright, and has written for television. He holds dual American and Austrian citizenship. Dassanowsky was named CU Distinguished Professor of Film Studies and Languages & Cultures by the University of Colorado System in November 2020. He has been professor of German and Visual and Performing Arts, and founding director of film studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs since 1993, and has become particularly known for his influential scholarly work on Austrian author Alexander Lernet-Holenia, German filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl, and on Austrian and Central European film. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Media Communication at Webster University Vienna and is an Affiliate Faculty of the Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) New York since 2017 and member of the Board of Directors of the GCAS Research Institute Dublin since 2019. Dassanowsky was founding president of the Colorado chapter of PEN and was a founding Vice President of the Austrian American Film Association (AAFA). Additionally, he is the Contributing Editor of the Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, a Contributing Advisor to the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, contributor to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures, and is author of Austrian Cinema: A History (2005), the first English language survey of this national cinema. Among his other publications is a collection of essays on New Austrian Film edited with Oliver C. Speck (2011), edited collections on Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play Der Schwierige (Iudicium 2011), Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Manipulations of Metafilm (Continuum 2012), and on World Film Locations: Vienna (Intellect 2012). His study, Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933–1938, was published by Indiana University Press in May 2018. He is currently (2021-2022) editing Interwar Salzburg as Austria's Other 'Kulturstadt' 1919-1938. Dassanowsky also serves or has served on several editorial and advisory boards of literary publications in the U.S., Canada, Austria and Poland including Osiris, Rampike, Poetry Salzburg Review, Journal of Austrian Studies, Colloquia Germanica, Studia Germanica Posnaniensia of the