Tim Spiekerman came to Kenyon College as a Bradley Post-Doctoral Fellow in 1996 and currently holds a joint position in Political Science and the Interdisciplinary Program in Humane Studies, where he teaches The Odyssey of the West. In addition to teaching our introductory course, The Quest for Justice, he teaches courses in political theory and politics and literature for the department. He is the author of Shakespeare's Political Realism. He currently serves on the Curricular Policy Committee (CPC).

Education

B.A. Carleton College
Ph.D. Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

Selected Publications

"Falstaff v. the Politicians: Honor in Shakespeare's Plays." Paper delivered at an interdisciplinary conference on "Love and Honor in Shakespeare," Assumption College, October 2009.

"Machiavelli on Fraud." Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2006.

"Achilles in Crisis: the limits of Contextualism." Paper delivered to the annual meeting of the Association of Core Texts and Courses, Vancouver, BC, April 2005.

"Shakespeare's Politics?" in The Shakespeare Theatre's "Guide to the Season's Plays" (2004).

Shakespeare's Political Realism: the English History Plays, SUNY Press, (2001).

Courses Taught

IPHS 113-114: Odyssey of the West
PSCI 101-102: The Quest for Justice
PSCI 320: Historicism
PSCI 321: Post-Modern Political Thought
PSCI 425: Machiavelli and Shakespeare
PSCI 432: The Idea of Community
PSCI 491: Ambition and Politics