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. His current research investigates how literature deals with death, grief, and mortality in particular. He is also interested in how literature negotiates marginality, relationality, and the shifting boundaries of the human within the broader debates in critical and cultural theory.
Research Interests
- Children’s and Young Adult Literature
- Contemporary German Literature and Film
- Queer and Feminist Thought
- Posthumanism
- Identity, Space, and Affect
- Modern Critical Theory
- Questions of Culture and Culturality
- Existentialist Thought
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)
Courses Taught
University of Mumbai (2022-25)
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Additional Campus Affiliations
Graduate Student Affiliate, Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory
Graduate Matters Committee, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
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