Nadia Butt

Nadia Butt is Professor of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe-University Frankfurt. She has worked on British, American, South Asian, African and Arab Anglophone literatures and cultures. Her research interests include transcultural and transnational studies, mobility and migration studies, memory studies, travel theory and literatures, and global English and comparative literatures. In 2023, Nadia Butt has established the interdisciplinary Forum of Global Anglophone Literature and Culture, together with Michelle Stork (MA – Art History, MA – Moving Cultures), which aims to broaden the spectrum of research by connecting scholars in Germany and abroad.

Relevant Publication:

2023. “‘Travelling Across the Lines’: Investigating Transcultural Memory in Twentieth-Century African Anglophone Literatures”. Research paper for Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces. Edited by Laurent MaFalls and Astrid Fellner. Munster and New York: Waxmann, pp. 49-67.