Prof. Schneider has previously held positions at the University of California, at Irvine (1983-1990), and at Davis (1990-1993). A frequent visitor to the United States, he also has been a guest professor at Stanford University; University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Ohio State University, Columbus; University of Indiana, Bloomington; Harvard University; University of Washington, Seattle; George Washington University, Saint Louis; and Georgetown University. He has published books on German and European literature of the 18th/19th /20th centuries, in particular the history of the pastoral and the German idyll; landscape and utopia; body paradigms in the classical age; Lessing, Kleist, and Goethe; and classical drama and theater. In 2011 he published the book Genealogie und Menschheitsfamilie: Dramaturgie der Humanität von Lessing bis Büchner (2011).