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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

www.uni-potsdam.de/en/anglophone-modernities/for-current-students/international-research-and-exchange.

 

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