Marc Silberman is a Professor Emeritus in the The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at The University of Wisconsin–Madison. His areas of study are history of German cinema, Bertolt Brecht and the tradition of political theater, and East German literature and culture.He taught undergraduate and graduate courses on German literature, cinema, and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first century, including as guest professor at UCLA, Freie Universität Berlin, Albert Ludwig Universität Freiburg, University of Oxford, and Hebrew University. He has published three monographs and edited or co-edited twenty-eight volumes or special issues of journals as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and interviews in his areas of expertise. He is also a translator of, among others, Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller.