Schneiderman is former chair of English Department, American Studies Program, and is currently Director of Digital Chicago,[3] a four-year grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Schneiderman's work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, Harpers.org, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse; he is a long-time contributor for The Huffington Post.
[15] As a journalist and essayist, Schneiderman has interviewed John Waters,[16] Temple Grandin,[17] Edward Snowden's ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner,[18] Sherry Turkle,[19] David Shields,[20] Ruth Ozeki,[21] Jean Kwok,[22] and Aleksandar Hemon,[23] about his work as a writer for the Netflix series Sense8,[24] among others.
As Director of Lake Forest College Press, Schneiderman has published books on transportation and architectural issues including Beyond Burnham: An Illustrated History of Planning for the Chicago Region and Terminal Town: An Illustrated Guide to Chicago's Airports, Bus Depots, Train Stations, and Steamship Landings, 1939 - Present[25].
Digital Chicago involves "students and faculty in exploring specific at-risk or forgotten sites in Chicago's history, through urban archeological digs, innovative digital humanities projects, and complementary coursework in a wide array of disciplines, including English, History, Art, Music, and others.
[30] As a multimedia artist, Schneiderman creates audio, video and performance works as part of The Muttering Sickness collective, and recent works include "Modern Business Machines"[31] a collaboration with actor and director Regina Taylor and Chicago's Goodman Theater; performances as the 2014[32] and 2016[33] Chicago Humanities Festival; the former in performance with Jon Langford (of The Mekons) and Anne Waldman and others; the latter debuting a drone video connected to the Art Institute of Chicago's exhibit on Hungarian artist Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, published at Big Other;[34] and an album, The Last Days of Radio,[35] released on poet Ann Waldman's record label.
Schneiderman is also the lead writer for Tim Guthrie's award-winning exhibit The Museum of Alternative History,[36] with the Omaha Reader noting that the show "is conceived of and executed masterfully.
It taps into the current zeitgeist, which supports the twisting of fact, skewing of science, and values opinion and belief over data and truth.
[38] The Museum's most-recent award-winning run, from June 1 – September 26, 2018 at Omaha's KANEKO gallery, and was followed by a "pop-up" exhibit at the 2019 &NOW Festival at the University of Washington, Bothell.