Michael D. Richardson has been a member of the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures since 1998. He is the inaugural director of the Program in Screen Cultures. His research interests encompass 20th- and 21st-century German literature, theater, and film, from the Weimar Republic to contemporary Germany as well as contemporary world cinema. His current research focuses on three areas: constructions of history in recent German cinema, Holocaust cinema, and the image of Hitler in American and German popular culture. He is the author of Revolutionary Theater and The Classical Heritage: Inheritance and Appropriation from Weimar to the GDR (2007), and coeditor of A New History of German Cinema (2012) and Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, and Memory (2008). His essays have appeared in Telos, Colloquia Germanica, New German Critique, Stanford Literature Review, and in several anthologies. He is also a member of the editorial board of New German Critique.
Dr. Richardson is also the co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF).