Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann
Chair of English Literature
Chair of English Literature
Am Neuen Palais 10
Building 19, Room 0.28
14469 Potsdam
http://dirkwiemann.online
consulting hours
Wednesday, 10.45 - 11.45
During the semester break:
13 Feb, 12.00-13.30 hrs
29 Feb, 12.00-13.30 hrs
13 Mar, 12.00-13.30 hrs
22 Mar, 12.00-13.30 hrs
about
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 worked as 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 held a permanent post as an Assistant Professor 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/
international research and exchange module
Information and instruction regarding the International and Research module can be found here or at
research and teaching interests
- genre transformations in world literary space
- South Asia studies
- theories and practices of cosmopolitanism
- English renaissance republicanism in literature, politics and aesthetics
- literature and the British Empire
- cultural and literary theory
- postcolonialism
publications and projects
For an updated list of publications and more information on current projects, please see: https://dirkwiemann.online