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Ryan Schneider

Associate Professor
Department of English Office: Heavilon 310B
Office Phone: (765) 494-3725
Office Fax: (765) 494-3780
Email: pschnei@purdue.edu

Specialization: 19th-century American Literature; Transcendentalism; African American literature; Public Intellectuals and Intellectual History

Ryan Schneider holds a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from Duke.  He specializes in nineteenth-century American and African American literature with particular emphasis on Transcendentalism, Critical Race Theory, and intellectual history. His current research focuses on cognitive approaches to literature, especially nonfiction and autobiographical writing, and his book, The Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois: Emotional Dimensions of Race and Reform, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of their Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance series. His articles have appeared in American Transcendental Quarterly, Arizona Quarterly, and edited collections published by the university presses of Columbia, Duke, and Purdue. He also has contributed essays to The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States and W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia.  Professor Schneider teaches a wide range of courses for both the English Department and the Program in American Studies; he has received numerous teaching awards at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; and he is a two-time recipient of the Center for Undergraduate Instructional Excellence Fellowship. Professor Schneider also is a founding member of the Cancer, Culture, and Community Program (CCC): a joint venture involving the College of Liberal Arts and the Oncological Sciences Center in Discovery Park. The CCC Program explores the human response to cancer as expressed through art and literature and helps organize an annual symposium featuring presentations by prominent writers and artists whose work addresses various aspects of cancer's effects on the lives of individuals, families, and communities