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 a position at the Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies--which he now chairs--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. He is the editor of ARTMargins and ARTMargins Online.
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