Rebecca Schneider

Rebecca Schneider is a Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, specializing in performance studies, decolonial methods, and interdisciplinary art practices. Her work interrogates intersections of media, theatre, and Black feminist thought, with a focus on historical reenactment, gesture ethics, and postcolonial critique.

Her research interests span decolonial methodologies, liveness in performance, and the prehistories of screen media. Key projects include *This Shoal Which is Not One* (2020), exploring African diasporic narratives, and *Slough Media* (2018), which examines media's materiality. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021) and the Notable Book Award (2011).

Schneider has contributed to journals like TDR, edited special issues on precarity and new materialisms, and collaborated with global institutions including the British Museum and Guggenheim. Her current projects include a digital book on gesture and a work on dance in post-slavery capitalism.