简介

Currently Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Professor Speight has been a Fulbright Professor at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (2012), Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin (2003), a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, 1990) and a Fulbright Scholar at the Hegel Archive of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (1991-92). Professor Speight has twice won the Undergraduate Philosophy Association’s Excellence in Teaching Award and also received the College Honors Program Oustanding Teaching Award. Before coming to Boston University, Professor Speight taught at St. Xavier University of Chicago and the University of Chicago, where he chaired the university’s Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults. Professor Speight’s current research interests concern two areas: the relation between philosophy and narrative; and the relation between the history of aesthetics and the history of art. His graduate level teaching has included courses on aesthetics, the history of ethics and the philosophy of literature, as well as topics such as the concepts of responsibility, toleration and suffering.