Rebecca Schneider is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA. She is the author of Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment (2011) and The Explicit Body in Performance (1997) among other books. She has published over 50 essays including the award-winning “That the Past May Yet Have Another Future: Gesture in the Times of Hands Up” (2018); “Slough Media” in Remain (2019); and "This Shoal Which is Not One" in Island Studies Journal (2020). A book, Standing Still Moving, is in development supported by a Mellon grant for the Digital Humanities at Brown University. Schneider was a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow for her ongoing project, “Shoaling in the Sea of History.”
