Professor elected to leadership post with international academic group

von Dassanowsky

Robert von Dassanowsky, University of Colorado Colorado Springs professor of German and film studies, has been elected vice president of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA), the international academic organization for Austrian studies.

He will assume the office April 7 during the association's annual conference, hosted this year by Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania.

Dassanowsky also has been invited to speak at the "Cultures at War: Austria-Hungary 1914-1918" symposium at St Hilda's College, Oxford University, April 13-15.