Ralf Remshardt, professor of theatre, is a graduate of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich, Germany), the Freie Universität Berlin, where he received an MA in German Literature and Theatre Studies, and the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he was awarded a PhD in Dramatic Art. He is a native of Berlin and first came to the U.S. on a Fulbright Scholarship.
Dr. Remshardt is an experienced director, translator, and dramaturg whose scholarly interests range over a wide variety of topics in theatre and drama. He has lectured and delivered papers nationally and internationally at conferences in Canada, Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Portugal, China, Russia, and Japan. His publications in both English and German have appeared in Comparative Drama, Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Essays in Theatre, Theater der Zeit, Western European Stages, Victorian Studies, Communications and other journals, as well as in several edited collections. He has served as a translator and adaptor on plays such as Manfred Karge's Conquest of the South Pole (produced at the Famous Door Theatre in Chicago and the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles) and Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening , Tampa's Jobsite Theatre) as well as the widely praised Einstein's Dreams,  performed at New York’s Fringe Festival.