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
- Children’s and Young Adult Literature
- Contemporary German Literature and Film
- Queer Thought
- Identity, Space, and Affect
- Modern Critical Theory
- Existentialist Thought
- Grief, Trauma, Mourning and Melancholy
Education
M.A. (Honours) in German Studies, University of Mumbai (2024)
B.A. in German Studies, University of Mumbai (2022)
Awards and Honors
- University Summer Course Scholarship (interDaF e.V., Leipzig), DAAD (Aug 2021)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Graduate Student Affiliate, Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory
Graduate Matters Committee, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
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)