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. [2] Her parents are authors Paul Schneider and Pat Schneider,and her siblings are authors Bethany Schneider,Laurel C. Schneider,and Paul Schneider. [3] She obtained her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University in 1996;her doctoral dissertation was titled The Explicit Body in Performance. [4]
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. [4] She moved to Brown University in 2002,and she was promoted to associate professor in 2003 and to full professor in 2009. [4] She was chair of Brown's Department of Theatre and Performance Studies from 2007 until 2013. [4]
Schneider specializes in performance studies. [1] She wrote three books on performance studies: The Explicit Body in Performance (1997), [5] Performing Remains (2011), [6] and Theatre and History (2014). [7] In 2018,she co-authored Remain with Ioana Jucan and Jussi Parikka. [8] She was an editor for three TDR special issues,namely in 2012,2015,and 2018. [1]
Schneider won the American Society for Theatre Research's 2019 Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize for her 2018 Theatre Journal article "That the Past May Yet Have Another Future:Gesture in the Times of Hands Up". [9] In 2021,she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, [10] to work on a book discussing "how performance is linked to the currents of oceanic history". [2]
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