Robert Shandley is Professor of International Studies, Film Studies, and German at Texas A&M University. He is the author of three monographs including one on immediate postwar German film, Rubble Films: German Film in the Shadow of the Third Reich (Temple University Press, 2001), another on Hollywood location production in 1950s Europe, Runaway Romances: Hollywood’s Postwar Tour of Europe (Temple University Press, 2009), and a third on television sit-coms during the Vietnam War, Hogan’s Heroes (Wayne State University Press, 2011). He is editor of Unwilling Germans: The Goldhagen Debate (University of Minnesota Press, 1998), co-editor with Peter C. Caldwell of German Unification: Expectations and Outcomes (Palgrave-McMillan, 2011), and co-editor with Larson Powell of German Television: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives (Berghahn Books, 2016).

While he was in Tübingen in 2022, Professor Shandley was working on a project with the working title "Seeing without a State: The Experience of Statelessness in Film."