IG-Farben-Haus, Raum IG 4.357
Tel. (+49)(+69) 798 32708
E-mail: roy@
em.uni-frankfurt.de
Sprechstunde: nach Vereinbarung
Studied History at the University of Calcutta, India (with focus on Modern European History). Worked in various English language newspapers in India as senior editor and features writer from 1996-2000. PhD at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main in 2014 on Albert Speer. From 2014-2018, part of the AG Wissenschaftsgeschichte. From July 2018, post-doc researcher in the DFG Project 'Indology in National Socialist Germany' under Prof. D. Moritz Epple.
National Socialism, German Indology, Modern Indian politics (Hindu nationalism), historical connections between India and Germany.
1. Monograph: The making of a Gentleman Nazi: Albert Speer's
Politics of History in the Federal Republic of Germany. Peter Lang.
Series: Beiträge zur Aufarbeitung der NS-Herrschaft. Frankfurt
am Main, 2016.
2. Article: Friedrich Max Müller and the emergence of identity
politics in India and Germany. Publications of the English Goethe
Society. Vol.85. 2016. Pp: 217-228. Published as part of an anthology,
titled: Friedrich Max Müller and the role of Philology in
Victorian Thought. Edited by: John Davies and Angus Nichols. Routledge,
Oxford, N.Y., 2017.
3. Article: Leopold von Schroeder: Handbuch des Völkische
Wissenschaften (Band II). Edited by: Michael Falhbusch, Ingo Haar,
Alexander Pinwinkler. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2017.
4. Article: Völkische Indologie: Handbuch des
Völkische Wissenschaften (Band II). Edited by: Michael
Falhbusch, Ingo Haar, Alexander Pinwinkler. Published by De Gruyter,
Berlin, 2017.
5. Article: Visual Grandeur, Imagined Glory: Identity Politics and
Hindu Nationalism in Bajirao Mastani and Padmavat.
In: Journal of Religion and Film. Volume 22, Issue 3 (2018) Special
Issue.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/
6. Article: The past is indeed a different country: Perception of
Holocaust in India. In: Holocaust Education revisited: Wahrnehmung und
Vermittung. Fiktion und Fakten. Medialität und
Digitalität. Edited by Anja Ballis, Markus Gloe. P.209-217.
7. Article: The long shadow of the 'Kristallnacht'on the 'Gujarat
Pogrom' in India? A comparative analysis. In: New
Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in
Global Comparison.
Steven J. Ross, Wolf Gruner (Eds). Purdue University Press, 2019. Pp.
333-358.
8. Article: Valorous Hindus, villanous Muslims, victimised women.
Politics of identity and gender in Bajirao Mastani and Padmaavat. In:
Annäherungen an das Unaussprechliche: Äesthetische
Erfahrung in kollektiven religiösen Praktiken. Isabella
Schwaderer, Katherina Waldner (Eds). Transcript, 2020. Pp. 247-266.
9. Article: Tee mit Hitler: Internationaler Erlebnistourismus am
Kehlsteinhaus . In: Dark Tourism. Reisen zu Stätten von Krieg,
Massengewalt und NS-Verfolgung. Axel Drecoll, Frank Bajohr, John Lennon
(Eds). Metropol, 2020. Pp. 192-203.
zur
Startseite der Arbeitsgruppe Wissenschaftsgeschichte