Dr. Vandana Rani

Vandana Rani is pursuing her PhD at the University of Freiburg in ecocritical children’s and youth literature. In 2024, she was awarded the Prize for Outstanding Innovators for her exceptional research contributions. She completed her MPhil in German literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. Her research interests include contemporary youth literature in German- and Hindi-speaking regions, Romantic literature, ecocriticism, the Anthropocene, and translation studies. She also translates German children’s and youth literature into Hindi.

RCC Project: The Anthropocene in Young Adult Literature: A Comparative Study of Hindi and German Language Literature of the Twenty-First Century (PDF, 53 KB)

Selected Publications:

• “Symbiose aus Natur und Menschen in Marlen Haushofer’s Roman Die Wand (1963): Ein Versuch im Einklang mit der Natur zu leben.” In Recent Approaches in Humanities, edited by Kanan Aghasiyev Habib Tekin. Vol. 2 of Contemporary Studies on Language & Literature. Maurer Publication, 2025.