REBECCA SCHNEIDER

Rebecca Schneider has written extensively on theatre and performance practices that stretch accepted borders around media, writing on performance art, photography, architecture, and "performative" everyday life. She teaches theatre history as well as visual culture and performance studies. Her most recent book engages historical reenactment in popular culture, theatre, and visual art.

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Biography

Rebecca Schneider, Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, teaches performance studies, theater studies, and theories of intermedia. She is the author of The Explicit Body in Performance (Routledge, 1997) and Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment (Routledge 2011). She has coedited the anthology Re:Direction: A Theoretical and Practical Guide to 20th-Century Directing. She is a consortium editor for TDR: The Drama Review, contributing editor to Women and Theatre, coeditor with David Krasner of the book series "Theatre: Theory/Text/Performance" with University of Michigan Press, and consulting editor for the seies "Performance Interventions" with Palgrave McMillin. Schneider has published essays in several anthologies, including Psychoanalysis and Performance, Acting Out: Feminist Performance, Performance and Cultural Politics, Performance Cosmologies, Performance and the City, 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, and delivered lectures at museums such as the Guggenheim in New York and the Gulbenkian in Lisbon.

Curricum Vitae

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REBECCA SCHNEIDER, Ph.D.
Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 9223
E-mail: Rebecca_Schneider@Brown.EDU

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