Schneider was born in
Kirchdorf an der Krems, Austria. He studied at
University of Graz between 1972 and 1978. Later, he completed his PhD in 1981 and his
habilitation in 1987 at the
University of Bamberg, Germany. In 1988 he was an interim professor at the
University of Trier, and in 1988/1989 an adjunct associate professor at the
University of Georgia, US. In 1989 he became a full professor at the
Free University of Berlin. In 1993, he took over the chair at Regensburg. In Regensburg he founded the Research Center for World Englishes. Schneider was dean of studies at the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies of the
University of Regensburg (2007–2009) and dean of the faculty from 2009 to 2011. Schneider was the president of the
International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) in 2016–2018. He edited the scholarly journal
English World-Wide (Amsterdam: Benjamins) from 1997 to 2013 and its associated book series
Varieties of English Around the World from 1997 to 2011. He was a co-editor of the voluminous
Handbook of Varieties of English (2004) and also of the
Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes (2020), and is the author of an introductory textbook,
English Around the World (2011, 2nd ed. 2020). He edits a series of short monographs for Cambridge University Press, called Elements: World Englishes. == Bibliography ==