Prof. Dr. Neeti Badwe

Professor of German at the University of Pune, India

Books/Monographs :
2008 :‘Portaits einfacher Frauen aus Indien’, Akshar Sahitya, Pune.
2006 : ‘Nivdak Kafka’, selected texts of Franz Kafka’s translated into Marathi,
Sahitya Akadami, New Delhi.
2004 : ‘Marathi as a Foreign Language ’ : Module II, A course work to
learn Marathi for the intermediate level, Akshar Sahitya, Pune.
2003 : ‘Marathi as a Foreign Language ’ : Module I, A course work to learn
Marathi for the beginners, Akshar Sahitya, Pune.
1996 : ‘Marathi in Context’ : Part III, A course work to learn Marathi as a FL. At
advanced level, ACM, Chicago, USA, (P. ca. 230)
1988 : ‘A comparative study of high frequency lexical items of German,
French and Russian with special Reference to Marathi speaking
students’ Director of the project’, Interdisciplinary Monograph
Series, University of Poona, Pune.

Teaching experience :
At post-graduate level Liguistics, linguistic theories, literature, literary theories;
At Teachers’ training and Orientation programs
Teaching Marathi and Hindi as a foreign language
Guest Professor : SoSe 2003 at Duisburg-Essen University, Germany.

Research Areas :
Intercultural communication and contemporary ‘post’-discourses,
Reception theory, Theory of Intertextuality
Comparative linguistics and Lexicography
Translation studies
Contemporary Indian literature in German

In the capacity of Chairperson of the Foreign Languages’ coordinators’ council University of Pune; Co-ordinator, German Section, University of Pune; Chairperson, Board of Studies;
President of the Pune/ India Branch of the ‘Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache’, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Planed seminars, conferences, symposia, orientation courses, teachers’ training programmes, workshops, academic and co-curricular activities.
Administering 40 different courses of 5 foreign languages for ca. 2000 students.