Chair of English Literature
Am Neuen Palais 10
Building 19, Room 0.28
14469 Potsdam
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For study-related queries please try to avoid e-mails but see me during my office hours.
During the teaching period:
Wednesday, 10.45 - 11.45 hrs
During the semester break:
Thu 8 March, 12-14 hrs.
Thu March 15, 12-14 hrs.
Thu 22 March, 12-14 hrs.
Thu 13 April, 12-14 hrs.
I graduated from Oldenburg University where I read English, German, and Political Science. In 1998, I received my PhD in Comparative Literature for a dissertation on Anglophone exilic literature in Great Britain 1933-1945, funded by a grant from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. On behalf of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), I spent three years as a Visiting Lecturer at the English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad (India) and the University of Delhi, teaching Literature, Media Studies and European Studies. From 2001 to 2006, I held the post of an Assistant Professor at the University of Magdeburg where I completed my postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) on contemporary Indian novels in English. Before joining the English and American Studies Department at Potsdam University in 2008, I was a Senior Reader at the University of Tübingen.
I am member of the DFG-funded Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) “Minor Cosmopolitanisms”. For further information, please visit http://www.uni-potsdam.de/minorcosmopolitanisms
I was also the director of the bilateral research and exchange network "Writing the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Genre Transactions in World-Literary Space" with the University of Delhi. For further information, please visit https://dirkwiemann.online/research/genre-transactions-in-world-literary-space/
For an updated list of publications and more information on current projects, please see: https://dirkwiemann.online
Information and instruction regarding the International and Research module can be found here or at