Spieker received a B.A. (with distinction) from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London (1987) and a Ph.D. from Oxford University (Merton College). After extended stays in Moscow and Los Angeles, Spieker accepted an appointment as assistant professor at Indiana University, Bloomington (1991). In 1995 Spieker took up his present position at the Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies and the Comparative Literature Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As an affiliate faculty member in the departments of Art and Art History he teaches courses in 20th-century European as well as Russian and East European art. In 2004 Spieker was a visiting professor at Constance University, Germany. His honors and awards have included fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center (Stanford University); the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University; and the Literaturzentrum in Berlin. Spieker has been a referee for the Stanford Humanities Center and the MIT Press.
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