Michelle Stork

Michelle Stork is a Research Associate at the Department of English and American Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Her PhD project aims at reading road narratives in fiction and film across the Anglophone world from a transcultural perspective. Her research interests include road narratives, automobility, transcultural English studies and literary mobility studies. Since November 2020, Michelle holds a scholarship with the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). In 2017 and 2018, she obtained two master’s degrees – one in Art History and one in Moving Cultures Transcultural Encounters, both from Goethe University.

Together with Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt, she co-directs the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures.

Relevant Publication:

2023. Nadia Butt and Michelle Stork. “The Anglophone Road Novel: Moving Memoires, Histories and Identities in Jamal Mahjoub’s Travelling with Djinns (2004) and Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists (2005).” In The Anglophone Novel in the 21st Century: Cultural Contexts – Literary Developments – Model Interpretations, edited by Nadia Butt, Ansgar Nünning and Alexander Scherr, 283–99. Trier: Wissenschaftsverlag Trier.