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Abhay Kumar Mishra

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Department of German Studies

Department of German Studies9651713430 abhaymishra@bhu.ac.in

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Abhay Kumar Mishra serves as Professor in the Department of German Studies, contributing to teaching, research, student mentorship and academic initiatives.

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Administrative1999 - 2001

Warden

Birla C

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AdministrativeNA - Dec 2013

Head of Department

Department of German Studies, BHU

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Department of German Studies, BHU

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2025

Heterogeneity of Temporality and the Narrative: A Retrospective Glance from Postmodernism to Greek Classics

Dr. Abhay Kumar Mishra-Dr. Prem Lata Chandra

Literary VoiceNumber-25, Volume-1, 319-326DOI

2025

Walter Benjamin's The Task of the Translator: Contemplating Theoretical Contours of Similarity (Book-Chapter)

Abhay Kumar Mishra

Transcultural Practices. Perspectives and Possibilities. Essays in Honour of Anil BhattiFirst edition 2025, 84-95DOI

2024

Music In Relation To Will And Self-Perception In Schopenhauer's Philosophy: Tracing Representational And Bodily Contexts

Abhay Kumar Mishra

Swar Sindhu (UGC CARE Listed)Vol. 12, Issue 03 (December, 2024), 97-102DOI

2024

Sanskrit's affiliation to European languages and competing models of 'Similarity': Sir William Jones, Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux, and Friedrich Schlegel

Dr. Prem Lata Chandra and Abhay Kumar Mishra

International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social StudiesVol. 6 : Issue 1, 22-29DOI

2024

Shakuntala, critique of eurocentrism, and the grotesque: Herder and Goethe on India

Dr. Prem Lata Chandra and Abhay Kumar Mishra

International Journal of Humanities and ArtsVol. 6, Issue 2, Part A, 15-21DOI

2023

Christa Wolfs Roman Kassandra: Die Kritik an hegemoniale Männlichkeit anhand der Konstruktion einer Alternativen Mythologie

Abhay Kumar Mishra

International Education and Research JournalVol. 9, Issue 10, 64-67DOI

2022

The Novelist as a Critic : Thomas Mann's Engagement with his Time in Exile and Remigration (Book-Chapter)

Abhay Kumar Mishra

Twentieth Century German Fiction : An Interdisciplinary Evaluation0, 33-40DOI

2022

Suffering and Nostalgia in Ingeborg Bachmann's Franza Fragment : Interpolations of Gender and Power in the Context of Nazism

Abhay Kumar Mishra

International Journal of Humanities Social Science and Management (IJHSSM)Volume 2, Issue 5, 606-610DOI

2020

Ambition and the Barrenness of Fate in Stendhal's The Red And The Black

Abhay Kumar Mishra

International Educational Applied Research JournalVol. 04, Issue 08, August 2020, 8-12DOI

2018

(Book)-A Study of Hegel's Phenomenology: From Consciousness to Religion

Abhay Kumar Mishra

BookBook, 193 PagesDOI

2018

Hegel's Inquiry into the Greek Antiquity: The Realm of Art

Abhay Kumar Mishra

APURVAVol. 22-23 (2016-17& 2017-18), 21-38DOI

2018

Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy: A Tale of Journey from the Loss of the Native to the Arrival in Human Site

Abhay Kumar Mishra

Journal of ArtsVolume 7, Issue 1, 79-91DOI

2017

Germany toward the End of 19th Century: Headway, Dilemmas and Recoiling of Reactions

Abhay Kumar Mishra

International Journal of Research in All Subjects in MultilanguagesVol. 5, Issue 10, October:2017, 23-30DOI

2017

Walter Benjamin's Theoretical Molding: The Chronicle of Influences

Abhay Kumar Mishra

Research HighlightsVolume IV, No.2, 86-103DOI

2016

Walter Benjamin as a literary Critic: Visiting the Interpolation between the Ideology and the Narrative Spaces

Abhay Kumar Mishra

apurvaVolume 20-21, 90-106DOI

2016

Literary-Critical and Philosophical Reflections from Goethe to Walter Benjamin

Abhay Kumar Mishra

Book2016, 156DOI

2016

Of Classicism, Romanticism, Modernity and Critical Theory in German Studies

Abhay Kumar Mishra

Book2016, 142DOI

2015

(Book-Chapter)-Public Sphere as the Discursive Provenance of Franz Kafka's Oeuvre: The Allegories of Angst, Waiting and Wandering

Premlata Chandra and Abhay Kumar Mishra

ENQUIRIES IN LITERATURE AND TRANSLATIONBook, 216-236DOI

2014

(Book-Chapter)-About the Possibilities of Representation: Literary-Artistic Discourse from Kant to Benjamin and Adorno

Abhay Kumar Mishra

STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND TRANSLATIONBook, 114-125DOI

2012

Schiller's Reception of Goethe's Iphigenie

Abhay Kumar Mishra

apurvaVolume 17, 156-161DOI

2011

Aesthetic Dimension of Kierkegaard's Existential Philosophy: An Assessment

Abhay Kumar Mishra

apurvaVolume 15, 72-79DOI

2008

Walter Benjamin and Post-Enlightenment Critique of Time

Abhay Kumar Mishra

STARS INTERNATIONAL JOURNALVolume 2, No.2, 2008, 92-96DOI

2007

Aesthetic Education The Eclipse of Invulnerability

Abhay Kumar Mishra

Year Book of the Goethe Society of IndiaYearbook 2006, 41-47DOI

2002

Die Rezeption von Goethes Faust in Indien

Abhay Kumar Mishra

Yearbook of the Goethe Society of India2003, 171-181DOI

2002

The Representation of the Orient in Goethe's Concept of World Literature

Abhay Kumar Mishra

Yearbook of the Goethe Society of India2003, 258-279DOI

2000

Ambiguity of World Literature: The Dialectic of National and Transnational Conjectures in Goethe

Abhay Kumar Mishra

Yearbook of the Goethe Society of India1999-2000, 175-183DOI

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Goethe Society of India

Since 1998

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DAAD Fellowship

DAAD

1996

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DAAD Fellowship

DAAD

1999

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DAAD

2006

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Fellowship of Goethe Gesellschaft in Weimar

Goethe Gesellschaft in Weimar, Germany

2001

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Fellowship of Goethe Gesellschaft in Weimar

Goethe Gesellschaft in Weimar, Germany

2008

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Selected Publications

Heterogeneity of Temporality and the Narrative: A Retrospective Glance from Postmodernism to Greek Classics

Walter Benjamin's The Task of the Translator: Contemplating Theoretical Contours of Similarity (Book-Chapter)

Music In Relation To Will And Self-Perception In Schopenhauer's Philosophy: Tracing Representational And Bodily Contexts

Sanskrit's affiliation to European languages and competing models of 'Similarity': Sir William Jones, Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux, and Friedrich Schlegel

Shakuntala, critique of eurocentrism, and the grotesque: Herder and Goethe on India

Christa Wolfs Roman Kassandra: Die Kritik an hegemoniale Männlichkeit anhand der Konstruktion einer Alternativen Mythologie

The Novelist as a Critic : Thomas Mann's Engagement with his Time in Exile and Remigration (Book-Chapter)

Suffering and Nostalgia in Ingeborg Bachmann's Franza Fragment : Interpolations of Gender and Power in the Context of Nazism

Ambition and the Barrenness of Fate in Stendhal's The Red And The Black

(Book)-A Study of Hegel's Phenomenology: From Consciousness to Religion

Hegel's Inquiry into the Greek Antiquity: The Realm of Art

Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy: A Tale of Journey from the Loss of the Native to the Arrival in Human Site

Germany toward the End of 19th Century: Headway, Dilemmas and Recoiling of Reactions

Walter Benjamin's Theoretical Molding: The Chronicle of Influences

Walter Benjamin as a literary Critic: Visiting the Interpolation between the Ideology and the Narrative Spaces

Literary-Critical and Philosophical Reflections from Goethe to Walter Benjamin

Of Classicism, Romanticism, Modernity and Critical Theory in German Studies

(Book-Chapter)-Public Sphere as the Discursive Provenance of Franz Kafka's Oeuvre: The Allegories of Angst, Waiting and Wandering

(Book-Chapter)-About the Possibilities of Representation: Literary-Artistic Discourse from Kant to Benjamin and Adorno

Schiller's Reception of Goethe's Iphigenie

Aesthetic Dimension of Kierkegaard's Existential Philosophy: An Assessment

Walter Benjamin and Post-Enlightenment Critique of Time

Aesthetic Education The Eclipse of Invulnerability

Die Rezeption von Goethes Faust in Indien

The Representation of the Orient in Goethe's Concept of World Literature

Ambiguity of World Literature: The Dialectic of National and Transnational Conjectures in Goethe

Research Supervision

Courses Taught

Professional Memberships

Life Member

Honours & Awards

DAAD Fellowship

DAAD Fellowship

DAAD Fellowship

Fellowship of Goethe Gesellschaft in Weimar

Fellowship of Goethe Gesellschaft in Weimar

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Connect with Abhay Kumar Mishra