REBECCA SCHNEIDER

Rebecca Schneider has written extensively on theatre and performance practices that stretch accepted borders around media. She has written on performance art, photography, architecture, and everyday life as "performative." She teaches in theatre history as well as on performance art, gender- and race-critical performance, and visual culture and performance. She is currently completing a book on "Reenactment" that engages historical reenactment in popular culture, theatre, and visual art.

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Biography

Rebecca Schneider, Chair of the Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance, teaches performance studies, theater studies, and theories of intermedia. She is the author of The Explicit Body in Performance (Routledge, 1997). A second book titled Reenactment: Essays on Performance Remains in Visual Culture is forthcoming with Routledge. She has coedited the anthology Re:Direction: A Theoretical and Practical Guide to 20th-Century Directing. She is a contributing editor to TDR: The Drama Review and coeditor with David Krasner of the book series "Theatre: Theory/Text/Performance" with University of Michigan Press. Schneider has published essays in several anthologies, including Psychoanalysis and Performance, Acting Out: Feminist Performance, Performance and Cultural Politics, and the essay "Solo Solo Solo" in After Criticism. As a "performing theorist," she has collaborated with artists at such sites as the British Museum in London and the Mobile Academy in Berlin.

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Curricum Vitae

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REBECCA SCHNEIDER, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Theatre, Speech and Dance
Theatre, Speech & Dance
Phone: +1 401 863 9223
E-mail: Rebecca_Schneider@Brown.EDU

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