Dassanowsky was founding president of the Colorado chapter of PEN and was a founding Vice President of the Austrian American Film Association (AAFA). Additionally, he is the Contributing Editor of the "Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America", a Contributing Advisor to the "International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers", contributor to "The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures", and is author of "Austrian Cinema: A History" (2005), the first English language survey of this national cinema. Among his other publications is a collection of essays on "New Austrian Film" edited with Oliver C. Speck (2011), edited collections on Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play "Der Schwierige" (Iudicium 2011), Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds: Manipulations of Metafilm" (Continuum 2012), and on "World Film Locations: Vienna" (Intellect 2012). His study, "Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933–1938", was published by Indiana University Press in May 2018. He is currently (2019-2021) editing "After Vienna. Postimperial Salzburg as Austria's Other 'Kulturstadt' 1919-1938" with Michael Burri.