Chair of English Literature
Am Neuen Palais 10
Building 19, Room 0.28
14469 Potsdam
consulting hours
Consulting hours during the semester break:
* Tue 26 July, 16-17 hrs
* Tue 23 August, 12 - 14 hrs
* Tue 6 September, 12 - 14 hrs
* Tue 20 September, 12 - 14 hrs
* Tue 4 October, 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