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Dr. Payal Kumari鈥痠s Assistant Professor of German at the Centre for Foreign Languages, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. She holds a PhD in German Literature and Media Studies from the Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, with a dissertation on how everyday life (Alltagsleben) was conceptualized in the Weimar Republic through utopian fairy tales, city novels, and radio.
Her current research sits at the intersection of German literary and media studies, DaF pedagogy, and sociocultural analysis. She studies how AI shapes German writing competence and motivation among Indian learners, and develops decolonial approaches to teaching German. She is affiliated with JGU’s I.D.E.A.S. Office as a Research Fellow, and is serving on the Scientific and Cultural Committees for the STAR Global Conference 2026.
A practising language professional as well as a scholar, she served as interpreter (Hindi/English-German) for the Hon’ble President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu, and other distinguished guests at the inaugural ceremony of the鈥疐estival of Libraries鈥痠n 2023.