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.
Research Interests
- 20th/21st Century German Literature & Film
- Children’s and Young Adult Literature
- Queer Thought
- Human-Animal Studies and Posthumanism
- Spatial Turn
- Affect Theory
- 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
- University Block Grant Fellowship, Summer 2026
- Rusk Scholarship (Graduate College Conference Travel Award), December 2025
- Max Kade Graduate Fellowship, 2025-26
- 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 (2025-26)
Member, Human-Animal-Studies Research Cluster, Center for Advanced Study
Graduate Seminar Participant, Living in Multi-Species Worlds Initiative, Center for Advanced Study (Spring 2026)
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
- German Studies Association (GSA)
- American Friends of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (AFM)
- American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)