Biography
Dr. Molly A. Schneider is an Associate Professor in the School of Film and Television. She is primarily a television historian, combining an interest in media history and archives with an interest in cultural discourses surrounding media texts and industries. She is the author of Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture (University of Texas Press, 2024), a cultural history of anthology dramas on U.S. TV in the 1950s and 60s, with a particular focus on the ways the format intersected with notions of “Americanness.” Her teaching focuses on media history, theory, and criticism in a cultural context.
Dr. Schneider earned her PhD in the Screen Cultures Program at Northwestern University. She holds an MA in Critical Studies (School of Cinematic Arts) from the University of Southern California and a BA in Performance Studies from Northwestern.
Instructional Areas
Television History, Television Theory & Analysis, Media and Popular Culture
Creative Practice and Research Interests
U.S. Television History
Degrees
B.A., Performance Studies Northwestern University 2007
M.A., Cinema-Television University of Southern California 2010
Ph.D., Screen Cultures Northwestern University 2016