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Sadhana Naithani

Sadhana Naithani

Sadhana Naithani
Sadhana Naithani
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre of German Studies,
School of Language Literature and Culture Studies
Room No
315
Off. Phone
011-26704204 / 26704856
Email
sadhanan@mail.jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/sadhana/cv.pdf
Qualifications

PhD (1994) 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

German Language, Literature and Folklore; Folklore Theory; Post Colonial Theory and Indian Culture Studies 

Experience

17 Years  

Awards & Honours

* 2014 June: Film "Village Tales 1" based on current research in Germany selected and shown at Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival. (See details by clicking on http address above). 
* 2014 March: Keynote address at the conference "Translating Folk Narratives from Indian Languages to English", English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. 
* 2013, September: Keynote address at the conference of Postcolonial Studies Association, University of Kingston, London. 
* 2012 September: Talk at the Plenary Event of the Conference "After Grimm - Fairytales and the Art of Storytelling", University of Kingston, London. 
* 2012 June: Keynote address, titled "A Wild Philology" at the conference "Brothers Grimm and their Legacy 200 Years After" in University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. 
* 2011 Awarded three months’ ‘Fellowship for Professors’ in Cultural Anthropology. University of Goettingen, Germany.
* 2010 Invited as Visiting Professor and Head of School to set up School of Languages in Doon University, Dehradun.
* 2009 two months’ Fellowship at the Department of German Studies, Free University, Berlin.
* 2008 Summer Visiting Professor for Folklore at University of Tartu, Estonia.
* 2007 Spring Semester (Jan. – May 2007) Visiting Professor for Folklore at Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
* 2005 Delivered Plenary Address at the Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, held in the University of Tartu, Estonia.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

* 2014 Invited to be co-applicant on international Research Project "Fairy Tales and Media Culture Today" at University of Winnipeg, led by Professor Pauline Greenhill. Project Approved and funded by SSHRC, Canada. 
* Since 2009 Executive Committee Member of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research.
* 2004 – Present: Member, Editorial Board of Journals Marvels and Tales, Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
* 1999 – Present: Member, Editorial Board of Electronic Journal Cultural Analysis, published by University of California, Berkeley.
* 2001-2010 Nominated member of Folklore Advisory Committee in the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Helsinki.
* Member of Research Group “Form and Valued”, University of California, Berkeley. 

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

o 2012 "India". In Regina Bendix and Galit Hasan Rokem (Ed) Companion to Folkore. Wiley-Blackwell. 

o 2011 Sadhana Naithani “Time, Space and Lutz Röhrich”. In Journal: Marvels and Fairy Tales. Wayne State University Press. Detroit

o 2010 Sadhana Naithani The Story-Time of the British Empire. Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics. Jason: University Press of Mississippi.

o 2006 Sadhana Naithani: In Quest of Indian Folktales. Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke. Indiana University Press. Bloomington. (Indian Edition: 2009 Orient Blackswan)

o 2009 Tiger in Enzyklopädie des Märchens. Edited by Rolf Wilhelm Brednich. Göttingen, De Gryuter Verlag. 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

o 2014 Folklore Theory in Postwar Germany. University Press of Mississippi. 

o 2010 Sadhana Naithani The Story-Time of the British Empire. Colonial and Post Colonial Folkloristics

o Advisory Editor for Donald Haase edited, Encyclopedia of Folktales 2008: Greenwood Publishing. 

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.