Sadhana Naithani is professor at the Centre of German Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and president of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research. She is author of In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke; The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics; and Folklore Theory in Postwar Germany, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.