Rebecca Schneider

Rebecca Schneider
Parents
RelativesLaurel C. Schneider and Paul Schneider (brothers)
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2021)
Academic background
Alma materNew York University
ThesisThe Explicit Body in Performance (1996)
Academic work
DisciplinePerformance studies
Institutions

Rebecca Schneider is an American academic of performance studies. She is author of The Explicit Body in Performance (1997), 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.