Rachel Shteir

RACHEL SHTEIR is Associate Professor in the BFA program in Criticism and Dramaturgy at the Theatre School at DePaul University, which she directed until 2005. Before going to Chicago to found the program in 2000, she taught at universities including Yale, Carnegie Mellon University, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, the Oscar Hammerstein School at Columbia University, and the National Theatre Institute.

Rachel is the author of Striptease: the Untold History of the Girlie Show (OUP, 2004) and the forthcoming Gypsy: the Art of the Tease (YUP, 2009) and Nation of Thieves (2010).

She has published in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, Slate, the Guardian, Playboy, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Magazine, the Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Bookforum, New York Newsday, the late Lingua Franca, American Theatre, the Nation, Theatre, and the Village Voice.

Rachel has lectured widely on popular culture and theatre and is often quoted in the national media. She is the recipient of 5 Yaddo residencies for her writing and other fellowships including MacDowell and Ragdale Residencies. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures and an MFA and a DFA in Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.