Rebecca Schuman

Rebecca Schuman was born in Deep Springs, California and grew up in Eugene, Oregon. She graduated from Vassar College, and spent several years working in media and publishing in New York City before beginning her PhD in German at the University of California-Irvine, which she received in 2010. She has taught at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Ohio State, the creative nonfiction program at Stanford Continuing Studies, and is now a professor pro tempore of literature at the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. She wrote the the "Deutschland Über Us" column for THE AWL, and has published work in SLATE, QUARTZ, LITERARY HUB, the CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, GUERNICA, the WASHINGTON POST, the ATLANTIC and other outlets. She is also the author of several scholarly articles and KAFKA AND WITTGENSTEIN, an academic book based on her doctoral dissertation. SCHADENFREUDE is her first work of commercial nonfiction.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) University of California, Irvine (2005 — 2010)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Vassar College (1994 — 1998)
• Master of Arts (M.A.) New York University