Dirk Wiemann
Dirk Wiemann (* 1964 in Detmold ) has been Professor of English Literature and Head of the Institute for English and American Studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam since 2008 .
Life
Dirk Wiemann studied English, German and political science at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . From 1998 to 2000 he taught at the CIEFL in Hyderabad, India and from 2000 to 2001 at the University of Delhi. From 2001 to 2006 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Magdeburg , where he completed his habilitation with a thesis on contemporary Indian authors who write in English (Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English). From 2006 to 2008 he taught as an academic advisor at the University of Tübingen .
Fonts (selection)
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- "Indian Writing in English and the Discrepant Zones of World Literature." Anglophone World Literatures . Birgit Neumann & Gabriele Rippl (Eds.) Anglia 135/1. (2017), pp. 53-71.
Editorships
- with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Nicole Waller : Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2019.
- with Gaby Mahlberg: Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism . London & New York: Routledge, 2014.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiemann, Dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German English studies and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detmold |