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Contact Information

LCLB 3118
707 S Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
mmadye2@illinois.edu
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PhD Student, Max Kade Fellow

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
  • 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), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 2025
  • Max Kade Graduate Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2025-26
  • University Summer Course Scholarship (interDaF e.V., Leipzig), DAAD/German Academic Exchange Service, August 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

  • German Studies Association (GSA)
  • American Friends of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (AFM)
  • American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)