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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

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.