EFLU

Department

Germanic Studies

School

European Languages

Contact Details

: anupande@efluniversity.ac.in

Academic Details

Academic qualifications

Ph.D.,

Brief bio note

Dr. Anu Pande joined the Department of Germanic Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, in September 2010. She teaches BA and MA courses in literature, and culture and civilization of German-speaking countries, and supervises research scholars in the department. She studied at the Centre of German Studies, School of Languages, Literature and Culture Studies (SLL&CS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and was awarded PhD in 2017 for her thesis titled “Die Literarisierung einer neuen Krankeitserfahrung: HIV/AIDS in der deutschen autobiographischen und autofiktionalen Literatur.” She has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences, participated in workshops in India and abroad, delivered invited talks at universities in India and Germany, published translations from German to Hindi and English, published a book, and multiple articles and chapters on representations of disease and death in literature, discourses of violence, Bernward Vesper and the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), animals in literature, and Human-Animal Studies. She is co-founder of the Indian Animal Studies Collective (IASC), a platform for Animal Studies researchers in India, which regularly invites leading Animal Studies scholars from all over the world for online discussions of their work, and archives recordings of these discussions on the IASC website and YouTube. Besides Hindi, English, and German, she has a working knowledge of French (B1).

Thrust areas of interest and research

(a) Representations of disease and death in twentieth and twenty-first Century German, French and North-American literature

(b) Autobiographical and auto-fictional writing

(d) Human-Animal Studies

(e) Narratives of the Anthropocene

(f) Discourses of violence

(g) Gender und sexuality

(h) The developments after World War II in Germany, in particular the Students' Movement (1968) and the Rote Armee Fraktion in the 1970s.

Research articles published in peer reviewed journals with ISSN no.

Pande, Anu: Contamination across linguistic borders: The curious case of Hervé Guibert and the Germans, in: Sanjay Kumar, Uma Damodar Sridhar et al (eds.): Réflexions. Une revue des etudes françaises et francophones, Numéro 7/2020, Hyderabad: EFL University Press, pg. 29-50, ISSN 2320-0677.

Pande, Anu: Kontinuitäten und Brüche. Der Anthropozentrismus in Marlen Haushofers ‚Die Wand’. In: Julia Afifi, Rekha V. Rajan, Thomas Schwarz, Carmen Ulrich (eds.): German Studies in India. Beiträge aus der Germanistik in Indien. Neue Folge Bd. 4/2015. München: Iudicium Verlag 2015, pg.48-62, ISSN 1867-2817.

Books authored, edited, chapters in books with ISBN no.

Schmidt, Burghart; Kokkatt, Mathew John; Pande, Anu: Time and Temporality in the Asian and European Modernity. Drebber: DoBu Verlag 2023. ISBN: 3-934632-53-X. (In print)

Pande, Anu: Structuring of time in autobiographical AIDS narratives in: Schmidt, B.; Kokkatt, M. J.; Pande, A (eds.): Time and Temporality in the Asian and European Modernity. Drebber: DoBu Verlag 2023, pg. 212-221. ISBN: 3-934632-53-X. (In print)

Pande, Anu: Foreword, in: Rinu Krishna K., Dr. Sambhu R. (eds.): Postanimality: Perspectives and Critiques. Chennai: Notion Press 2022, pg. 1-3, ISBN 9798888339183.

Pande, Anu: Die Literarisierung einer neuen Krankheitserfahrung. HIV/AIDS in der deutschen autobiographischen und autofiktionalen Literatur. Norderstedt: BoD– Books on Demand 2019. ISBN: 9783748178934.

Pande, Anu: Die Entwicklung eines tiersensiblen Lehrplans für den Literaturunterricht im Rahmen der Auslandsgermanistik. Eine Fallstudie aus Indien, in: Björn Hayer, Klarissa Schröder (eds.): Tierethik transdisziplinär: Literatur – Kultur – Didaktik. Bielefeld: Transcript 2019, pg. 331-346. ISBN 978-3-8376-4259-9.

Pande, Anu: Bernward Vesper: Die Reise. New Discourse on Subjectivity and Violence, in: Mathew John K., Latha Thampi et al (ed.): Twentieth Century German Fiction. An Interdisciplinary Evaluation. Trivandrum: Bodhi Tree Books and Publications 2019. ISBN: 978-81-942668-7-7.

Pande, Anu: Die Literarisierung von HIV/AIDS. Widerstandsstrategien gegen die Stigmatisierung und Ausgrenzung von HIV/AIDS-Betroffenen in den deutschen AIDS-Autobiographien, in: Alexandra Groß, Ramona Pech, Ivan Vlassenko (eds.): „HIV/AIDS: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven“. Berlin: Lit Verlag 2019. ISBN: 978-3-643-14210-8.

Pande, Anu: “Hansnewala”, in: Heinrich Bölls Six Short Stories in Five Indian Languages, Mathew John K. (ed.), Hyderabad: EFLU Press, 2017, 99-103. ISBN: 978-81-906869-3-8.

Pande, Anu: “Shramikon ko hatotsaahit karne wali ek laghukatha”, in: Heinrich Bölls Six Short Stories in Five Indian Languages, Mathew John K. (ed.), Hyderabad: EFLU Press, 2017, 115-119. ISBN: 978-81-906869-3-8.

Pande, Anu: Von gewalttätigen Vätern und systematischer Gewalt. Bernward Vespers ‘Die Reise’ und Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘Lunar Park’, in: Madhu Sahni, Shaswati Mazumdar (eds.): Across Literary and Linguistic Diversities. Essays on Comparative Literature. Goethe Society of India Yearbook 2014. Bern: Peter Lang 2014, pg. 121-142, ISBN 978-3-0343-1759-7 (print), ISBN 978-3-0353-0638-5 (eBook).

Pande, Anu (Tr.) : „Migration und die Arbeiterklasse. Eine feministische Sicht aus Indien“. Translated from the English, in: Sara Poma Poma, Katharina Pühl (eds.): Perspectives on Asian Migration – Transformations of Gender and Labour Relations, Reihe rls papers, Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 2014, pg. 57-63.

Pande, Anu (Tr.): „Migration weiblicher Arbeitskräfte in Indien“. Translated from the English, in: Sara Poma Poma, Katharina Pühl (eds.): Perspectives on Asian Migration – Transformations of Gender and Labour Relations, Reihe rls papers, Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 2014, pg. 43-50.

Pande, Anu: Literary dimensions of AIDS. French and German autobiographical AIDS literature as resistance literature. In: Lars-Ivar Owesen Lein-Borge (ed.): Aids in Culture. Aspects of the Cultural History of Aids Volume 1. Mexico: National Commission of Human Rights 2010, pg.48-62. ISBN: 978-607-7888-46-8.

Pande, Anu (Tr.): The Score of My Life. Original title: Die Partitur meines Lebens (2006). Roli Books: 2008. ISBN: 978-81-7436-687-0.

Research projects (ongoing and completed)

Administrative responsibilities

MA Programme Coordinator, Department of Germanic Studies

Professional affiliations (membership, editorial board, etc.,)

Co-founder of the Indian Animal Studies Collective (IASC)
Member of the researchers’ network CLAS (Cultural and Literary Animal Studies), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
Lifetime Member of the Goethe Society of India.
Member of Board of Studies for Foreign Languages, Pondicherry University (February 2016 - February 2019), Dept. of Germanic Studies, EFLU Hyderabad (2015-2018) and Dept. of Germanic Studies, EFLU Shillong (2018-2021).

Awards and recognitions

Invited to participate in the Winter School Configurations of Mobility: Transition – Transformation - Transgression organized by the University of Würzburg, February 24-28, 2020 with full travel and accommodation funding by the Volkswagen Stiftung.
Received partial funding from the organisers to participate in the 6th Annual Cultural and Literary Animal Studies Conference, September 4-7, 2019, organized by the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
Received full travel and accommodation funding from the organisers to present a paper titled “Probleme bei einer wissenschaftlichen Analyse der autobiographischen und autofiktionalen AIDS-Literatur” at an international conference titled “Wissenschaftsethik in den Kulturwissenschaften. Gegenstände – Methoden – Wirkungen“, November 27-28, 2015, University of Bern.