Sven Spieker
(Professor and Chair, Ph.D. Oxford University, 1992) | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Spieker specializes in European modernism, with an emphasis on the Eastern European avant-gardes, postwar and contemporary literature and art (especially in Eastern and Central Europe), and critical theory.

 

Publications: The Big Archive. Art from Bureaucracy (MIT Press, 2008); The Imprints of Terror. The Rhetoric of Violence and the Violence of Rhetoric in Modern Russian Culture (Ed., with Anna Brodsky and Mark Lipovetsky, Vienna, 2006); Bürokratische Leidenschaften. Kultur- und Mediengeschichte im Archiv (Ed., Kadmos, 2004); GOGOL: Exploring Absence. Negativity in 19th-Century Russian Literature (Ed., Slavica, 2000); Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrei Bitov's Prose, (Peter Lang, 1996). Spieker is the editor of ARTMargins, an online journal devoted to contemporary art and visual culture in East-Central Europe (www.artmargins.com ).

 

Professor Spieker's personal site is: http://www.svenspieker.com