Rebecca Schneider

Rebecca Schneider is an American academic of performance studies. She is author of The Explicit Body in Performance, Performing Remains (2011), and Theatre and History (2014), as well as co-author of Remain (2018), and she was awarded the 2019 Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

Biography Rebecca Schneider was born into a family who was historically involved in the Atlantic slave trade and eventually moved westward into present-day Missouri, Kansas, and California. She obtained her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University in 1996; her doctoral dissertation was titled The Explicit Body in Performance.

After working as a lecturer at Yale University (1992-1995) and as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College (1995-1997), Schneider became an assistant professor at Cornell University in 1997. Performing Remains (2011), and Theatre and History (2014). In 2018, she co-authored Remain with Ioana Jucan and Jussi Parikka. She was an editor for three TDR special issues, namely in 2012, 2015, and 2018. In 2021, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, to work on a book discussing "how performance is linked to the currents of oceanic history".