Contact Information
707 S Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
Mihir Madye is a Ph.D. student in German since Fall 2025. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in German Studies from the University of Mumbai, India. His current research investigates how literature deals with death, grief, and mortality in particular. His additional research interests include queer thought, language pedagogy and modern critical theory.
Research Interests
- 20th/21st Century German Literature & Film
- Children’s and Young Adult Literature
- Queer Thought
- Identity, Space, and Affect
- Modern Critical Theory
- Existentialist Thought
- Grief, Trauma, Mourning, and Melancholy
- Memory Studies
- Theories of Reading, Writing, and Textuality
Education
M.A. (Honours) in German Studies, University of Mumbai (2024)
B.A. in German Studies, University of Mumbai (2022)
Awards and Honors
- Rusk Scholarship (Graduate College Conference Travel Award), December 2025
- University Summer Course Scholarship (interDaF e.V., Leipzig), DAAD, August 2021
Additional Campus Affiliations
Graduate Student Affiliate, Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory
Graduate Matters Committee, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
External Links
Conference Paper Presentations
— “Visualizing Afterlives: Adapting Death for Children in Und danach: Gedanken über das große Jenseits.” Adaptations in German and Dutch Studies: 25th Annual German and Dutch Graduate Student Association Conference, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, November 2025.
Professional & Teaching Certifications
- National Eligibility Test (NET) for Assistant Professorship — University Grants Commission, India
- telc Examiner’s License (A1–A2, B1–B2)
- Deutsch Lehren Lernen (DLL) 06: Curricular Requirements and Lesson Planning
- Deutsch Lehren Lernen (DLL) 04: Assignments, Exercises and Interaction
- Goethe-Zertifikat C2: Großes Deutsches Sprachdiplom (Reading, Listening)
Professional Memberships
- American Friends of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (AFM)
- American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)