Education
M. Phil., University of Delhi
M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University
Research interests
German Exile Literature from 1933-1945, with a special focus on India as a place of exile;
Representations of India in post war novels and shorter prose, the emergence of migrant writing and questions of history and memory; the praxis of German Language Teaching, translation and its theories as a vibrant space to facilitate intercultural transfer.
Selected Publications
Edited Volumes
- Indien in der Gegenwart (Quarterly of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations). Vol. III, No. 3-4, 1998
- Indien in der Gegenwart (Quarterly of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations). Vol. V, No. 1-2, 2000
Articles
- The Anatomy of a Forced Journey: Willy Haas and India; Paper presented at seminar “Rites of Passage: Exploring Changes in the Travel Motif”, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi, 2006, forthcoming)
- Kontinuitäten und Brüche: Willy Haas interpretiert Indien am Ende der Brtischen Kolonialherrschaft. (Paper presented at conference in Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2006, forthcoming)
- “Fuzzy Identities: Childhood Memories of Fascism - an annotated translation of Ernst Toller’s autobiography”, Germinal Journal of the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Vol. 1, 1994
Translations
- Translation of Gerhard Koch’s “Franz Osten: From Munich Cinema to ‘Bombay Talkies’”, germinal. Journal of the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Vol.2, 1998-99.
- Translation of Hindi short story Chandrama ke desh me by Asghar Wajahat into German for a collection of Hindi short stories to be published in Germany in 2007.
Conference Presentations
- “Religion in Indien” (Religion in India), Karl von Ossietzky Gymnasium, Hamburg, 1986
- “Frauen in Dritten Reich” (Women in the Third Reich), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1997
- “Das deutsche Drama der Weimarer Zeit” (German Drama of the Weimar Period), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1997
- “Memories of Fascism in Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood”, Women’s Voice, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 1998
- “Probleme der Kulturvermittlung im DaF Unterricht: Eine Untersuchung des Curriculum an dem Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Delhi Universität” (Problems of Cultural Transfer in the teaching of German as a foreign language: a study of the curriculum of Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Delhi University), International Seminar on Landeskunde im DaF Unterricht, Kottayam, 2004
- “The Anatomy of an Unwanted Journey: Willy Haas and India”, Rites of Passage: Exploring changes in the travel motif, University of Delhi, 2006
- “Kontinuitäten und Brüche: Willy Haas interpretiert Indien am Ende der Brtischen Kolonialherrschaft”, Freie Universität Berlin, 2006
- “Other Ways of Seeing: A reading of Emine Sevige Oezdamar’s , The Bridge on the Golden Horn, and Yoko Tawada’s , Talisman”. The Contentious Issue of Culture(s) in Contemporary Societies, University of Delhi, 2007
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