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Priyada Shridhar Padhye

Assistant Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre of German Studies

School of Language Literature and Culture Studies

Room No

315

Off. Phone

01126704643

Residence

09819130330

priyadashridharpadhye[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, priyada67[at]gmail[dot]com

Personal Webpage

http://jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

Ph.D.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Specialised Translation / Methodology of Teaching German as Foreign Language / Methodology of teaching Specialised Translation

Experience

23 years

2015 onwards till date- Assistant Professor at Centre of German Studies, School of Language , Literature and Culture Studies,J.N.U.

1994 - 2015 - German Teacher at R.A. Podar College of Commerce & Economics

2008 - 2010 Free lance Translator for Lear Automotive Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

1993 - 2005 Free lance Translator for Gharda Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

Awards & Honours

Fellowship of the Bergische University, Wuppertal

Fellowship of the Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Student exchange (2008-2015) with Ferdinand Porsche Gymnasium, Stuttgart, Germany

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Padhye, Priyada (2026): Translation and Religion in Medieval India. In: Batchelor, Kathryn, Odrekhivska, Iryna (eds.) : Translation Stuides before 'Translation Studies'. Nothing happened? Pages 63-77. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089877

Padhye, Priyada (2025): Translating Divinity in the Liminal Space. Performative Translations in the Medieval and Early Modern Period in India. In: O'Keefe, Brian; Cercel, Larisa; Agnetta, Mario: Translation as Event. Performing and Staging Translations. Bucharest: Zeta Books ISBN 978-606-697-185-0

Padhye, Priyada (2024) The Religious journey of the secular Panchatantra. In: Singh, Rosy (Ed.): Aesthetics Across Cultures. London/New York: Routledge

Padhye Priyada (2022) Das Pan҃chatantra im Zeitalter des Kolonialismus. In: Auteri, Laura; Barrale Natascia; Di Bella, Arianna; Hoffmann, Sabine (Hrsg.): Internationale Germanistik. Akten des XIV. Kongresses der internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (Bd. 8). Open access Peter Lang. Page nos. 425-435. ISBN - 978-3-0343-3662-8 (Print)

Padhye, Priyada (2019) ´Migrating Stories: ´The Panchatantra and the Grimm Tales´, in: Prasad, G.J.V.(ed.)Translation in India. India in Translation. New Delhi: Bloomsbury: Page Nos. 103-118 ISBN- 13: 978-9388414197

Sabharwal, Jyoti; Wadekar Padhye, Priyada; Majumdar, Shaswati (Eds.) (2018) Ikkisvi sadi ki german kahaniyan. Samay ki shaili ka ek safar, Calcutta: Sampark ISBN: 9788177680850

Padhye, Priyada (2017) ‘ OERs for the teaching and learning of German as a foreign language: A comparative evaluation- Recipé for the Indian context?’ , in Rao, Prabhakar, J; Ranjan, Ranjeeva (Eds.) (2017) Development nd Implementation of OERs for Foreign Languages in Indian Context New Delhi: Pritravi Prakashan, Page nos. 11- 26 ISBN: 978-81-86845-40-2

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Re-writing of Children’s Literature:Do we have a universal norm? In: Translation Today 12.1 (2018). Mysore: National Translation Mission. Page nos. (105-122)

Evaluation of Translation assignments at the Beginner’s Level: A pedagogical view. In: Translation Today Special Issue Volume 13, Issue 1 2019. (231-237)

Pan҃chopa̅khya̅na: Fossilized Marathi Culture and the Translation Lens. In: Translation Today Volume 13, Issue 2 2019. (141-176)

Translating Divinity in the Liminal Space. Performative Translations in the Medieval and Early Modern Period in India. In: Yearbook of Translational Hermeneutics. Jahrbuch für Übersetzungshermeneutik 3/2023 DOI: 10.52116/yth.vi3.71

Translation of Shop Sign-boards. A hermeneutic Perspective. In: Translation Today, Volume 18 Issue 2. DOI: 10.46623/tt2024.18.2ar1