Robert von Dassanowsky

Robert von Dassanowsky, professor, Languages and Cultures and Visual and Performing Arts, was recently named a 2011 Taft Lecturer, as part of the University of Cincinnati’s distinguished lecture series program, sponsored by the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center. He will lead a student workshop on the “Image of Nazism in Cinema” Feb. 23 and will present a campus-wide lecture, “New Austrian Cinema: A Non-Exceptional Exception” Feb. 24. His collection of critical essays on new Austrian cinema, co-edited with Oliver C. Speck of Virginia Commonwealth University, will be published by Berghahn Books in January.