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Wiemann's research focuses on literature as collaboration, genre transformations in world literary space, South Asia studies, English Renaissance republicanism in literature, politics, and aesthetics, literature and the British Empire, cultural and literary theory, postcolonialism, theories and practices of cosmopolitanism, and Berlin in post-1989 Anglophone fiction. His major monographs are Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts: Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction (co-authored, Metzler, 2019), Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English (Brill, 2008), and Exilliteratur in Großbritannien 1933-1945 (Westdeutscher Verlag, 1998; e-book Springer, 2013). He has edited volumes including Postcolonial Justice (Brill, 2017), Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism (Ashgate, 2014), and European Contexts for English Republicanism (Routledge, 2013). Currently, he is spokesperson for the DFG-funded Research Unit Collaborations: Assemblages, Articulations, Alliances (2025-2028), principal investigator of its project From Bystander to Actor, and was director of the DAAD-funded bilateral network Writing the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Genre Transactions in World-Literary Space with the University of Delhi (2016-2020). He was a member of the DFG-funded Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms and contributes to scholarly journals and conferences.