Jeffrey Schneider
Jeffrey Schneider’s scholarship spans a wide range of topics. His most recent project is a book-length study of the global popularity of Asian Boys’ Love (BL) television and web series. (He’s also teaching a seminar on the topic in Women, Feminist and Queer Studies, which is cross-listed with Asian Studies.) His previous research included several articles on foreign language pedagogy (with Silke von der Emde) as well as the intersections between the Prussian-German military and the modern queer emancipation movement in Imperial Germany (1871-1918). In addition to his book, Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex and the Queer Emancipation Movement in Imperial Germany (University of Toronto Press, 2023), his work has appeared in edited volumes as well as in a variety of journals, including Central European History, German Quarterly, German Studies Review, the Germanic Review, Literature & History, and the Modern Language Journal.
Jeffrey Schneider’s scholarship spans a wide range of topics. His most recent project is a book-length study of the global popularity of Asian Boys’ Love (BL) television and web series. (He’s also teaching a seminar on the topic in Women, Feminist and Queer Studies, which is cross-listed with Asian Studies.) His previous research included several articles on foreign language pedagogy (with Silke von der Emde) as well as the intersections between the Prussian-German military and the modern queer emancipation movement in Imperial Germany (1871-1918). In addition to his book, Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex and the Queer Emancipation Movement in Imperial Germany (University of Toronto Press, 2023), his work has appeared in edited volumes as well as in a variety of journals, including Central European History, German Quarterly, German Studies Review, the Germanic Review, Literature & History, and the Modern Language Journal.
Like his research activities, Jeffrey Schneider’s teaching interests are diverse. In addition to teaching all levels of German language as well as German-language literature and culture from 1750 to today, he offers courses in English on Marx, Nietzsche, Freud. He also regularly teaches a first-year writing seminar (Sex Before, During and After the Nazis) as well as courses in international studies and feminist and queer studies.
In addition to his teaching and research, Professor Schneider also serves as the faculty director of affirmative action in the office of equal opportunity and affirmative action/Title IX and chairs the committee on inclusion and equity. Outside of Vassar, he is a cofounding member of End the New Jim Crow Action Network (ENJAN) in Poughkeepsie, a local community organization that fights mass incarceration and racism in the criminal legal system. In that capacity he also supervises Vassar students interested in community-engaged learning opportunities with ENJAN and its court watching program.
Contact
Box 501
Research and Academic Interests
- Queer Media in Asia
- Imperial Germany
- Masculinity, the Military and Militarism
- Language Learning and Cultural Studies
Departments and Programs
Courses
Selected Recent Courses
- GERM 101 — Sex Before, During, and After the Nazis
- INTL 106 — Introduction to International Studies
- GERM/GNCS 181 — Nietzsche and His Followers
- GERM/GNCS 182 — Reading Freud and His Critics
- WFQS 201 — Introduction to Queer Studies
- GERM 301 — Excessive Speech: Language and the Question of Style
- WFQS 381 — Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Understand the Global Phenomenon of Asian Boys Love Media
Selected Publications
Books
- It’s a BL World! The Global Fantasies of Asian Boys Love Television and Web Series (in progress)
- Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany. (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2023)
Selected Articles
- “From Gay Closets to ‘Love Closets’: Epistemology of the BL Closet in Asian Boys Love Television” (with Zhikai Sheng, in progress).
- “The Emperor’s New Uniforms: The Uniform Fantasies of Wilhelm II and His Critics.” German Studies Review 47.1 (February 2024). [Full Text]
- “The Captain of Köpenick and the Uniform Fantasies of German Militarism.” Central European History 55.2 (2022): 187–204. [Full Text]
- “Dueling and the Fantasmatic Specter of Male Honor in Imperial Germany: The Kaiser’s Will and Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest.” Literature & History 31.1 (2022): 25–40. [Full Text]
- “Soliciting Fantasies: Knowing and Not-Knowing About Male Prostitution by Soldiers in Imperial Germany.” After the History of Sexuality: German Interventions. Ed. Dagmar Herzog, Helmut Puff, and Scott Spector. Oxford/New York: Berghahn, 2012. 124–138.
