Michelle Stork is a Research Associate at the Department of English and American Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt. She has recently completed her PhD which reads road narratives in fiction and film across the Anglophone world from a transcultural perspective. In 2017 and 2018, she obtained two Masters degrees – one in Art History and one in Moving Cultures Transcultural Encounters, both from Goethe University.
Her research has been published in Postcolonial Interventions, Anglistik
and Kairos. She has contributed to
the edited collections Jesmyn Ward: New
Critical Essays (EUP, 2023), The
Anglophone Novel in the Twenty-First Century (WVT, 2023) and The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature
(Bloomsbury, 2024). Recently, she has co-edited the following Special Issues:
“Representing Automobilities in Fiction and Film" for The Journal of Transport History, “The Poetics and Politics of Gender, Mobility and Migration in Global Anglophone Literature" for EJES and “'Africa in Europe, Europe in Africa': Transcultural Histories in African Anglophone Literature and Media" for Matatu.
Her first monograph "Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives" will be published with Palgrave in 2026.
Together with Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt, she co-directs the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures.
Research Interests
Completed Research Project
PhD project: “Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives." First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler; Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt.
Find me on Academia.edu and LinkedIn.
| Education | |
2018-2025 | PhD "Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives," Department of New Literatures in English and Culture, Institute of British and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler; Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt |
2018 | MA History of Art, Goethe University
Frankfurt, Germany |
2017 | MA Moving Cultures – Transcultural Encounters,
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
2017 | BA History of Art and English Studies, Goethe
University Frankfurt, Germany |
Academic CV | |
Since 10/2023 10/2020 – 04/2024 04/2021 – 03/2023 09/2016 – 01/2017 11/2014 – 03/2016 | |
Funding and Awards | |
| PhD Scholarship,
German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) Nomination for GAPS Dissertation Award, 2026 Grant from Goethe University's Faculty of Modern Languages (Forschungsförderung am FB10) for a 50% E13 position (3 months) Grant from Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Afrikaforschung (ZIAF) for the organisation of the international workshop “Multiple Mobilities and Migrations in African and Afro-Diasporic Literature and Media" Travel Grant from Goethe University's Faculty of Modern Languages (Forschungsförderung am FB10) for the participation in the ACLALS conference in Nairobi, Kenya Grant from Goethe University's Faculty of Modern Languages (Forschungsförderung am FB10) for the organisation of the international conference “Representing Automobility in Literature and Film" Grant from Deutsch-Französische Hochschule for the organisation of the international conference “Representing Automobility in Literature and Film" Grant from Goethe University's Faculty of Modern Languages (Forschungsförderung am FB10) for the participation in Harvard University's Institute for World Literature Summer School Grant from Goethe University's GRADE for the workshop “Publishing in the New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures" | |
Professional Memberships | |
|
GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies) EACLALS (European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Deutscher Anglistenverband GRADE (Goethe Graduate Academy) Co-Chair of the Working Group “Transcultural Narratives" at GRADE (2021-2025) | |
Teaching | |
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Two lectures ("Trans/Cultural Mobility" and "From Postcolonial to Transcultural Theory: Negotiating New Developments") in the Introduction to to M.A. Moving Cultures - Transcultural Encounters, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2025/26. "Indigenous Australian Literature", Hauptseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2025/26. "African-European
Connections in Literature," Hauptseminar, Goethe University
Frankfurt, Summer 2025. "'To arrive is never to arrive': Mobility and Migration in Anglophone Texts," Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2024/25. "'The force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth': Energy in Transcultural Anglophone Texts," Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Summer 2024. Co-taught with Dr Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell. "Drive! Representing the Road in Anglophone Texts from the 1960s to the Present," Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2023/24 "Changing Narratives of Automobility", Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2022/23 "'Running from both the Living and the Dead': Imagining Environmental and Mobility Justice in Transcultural Anglophone Texts", Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Summer 2022. Co-taught with Dr Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell. "Petroficiton", Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2021/2022 "Around the World with the Road Narrative: Identity, Automobility and Transculturality in Contemporary Anglophone Road Novels and Road Movies", Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Summer 2021. |
Michelle Stork is a Research Associate at the Department of English and American Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt. She has recently completed her PhD which reads road narratives in fiction and film across the Anglophone world from a transcultural perspective. In 2017 and 2018, she obtained two Masters degrees – one in Art History and one in Moving Cultures Transcultural Encounters, both from Goethe University.
Her research has been published in Postcolonial Interventions, Anglistik
and Kairos. She has contributed to
the edited collections Jesmyn Ward: New
Critical Essays (EUP, 2023), The
Anglophone Novel in the Twenty-First Century (WVT, 2023) and The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature
(Bloomsbury, 2024). Recently, she has co-edited the following Special Issues:
“Representing Automobilities in Fiction and Film" for The Journal of Transport History, “The Poetics and Politics of Gender, Mobility and Migration in Global Anglophone Literature" for EJES and “'Africa in Europe, Europe in Africa': Transcultural Histories in African Anglophone Literature and Media" for Matatu.
Her first monograph "Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives" will be published with Palgrave in 2026.
Together with Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt, she co-directs the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures.
Research Interests
Completed Research Project
PhD project: “Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives." First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler; Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt.
Find me on Academia.edu and LinkedIn.
| Education | |
2018-2025 | PhD "Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives," Department of New Literatures in English and Culture, Institute of British and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler; Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt |
2018 | MA History of Art, Goethe University
Frankfurt, Germany |
2017 | MA Moving Cultures – Transcultural Encounters,
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
2017 | BA History of Art and English Studies, Goethe
University Frankfurt, Germany |
Academic CV | |
Since 10/2023 10/2020 – 04/2024 04/2021 – 03/2023 09/2016 – 01/2017 11/2014 – 03/2016 | |
Funding and Awards | |
| PhD Scholarship,
German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) Nomination for GAPS Dissertation Award, 2026 Grant from Goethe University's Faculty of Modern Languages (Forschungsförderung am FB10) for a 50% E13 position (3 months) Grant from Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Afrikaforschung (ZIAF) for the organisation of the international workshop “Multiple Mobilities and Migrations in African and Afro-Diasporic Literature and Media" Travel Grant from Goethe University's Faculty of Modern Languages (Forschungsförderung am FB10) for the participation in the ACLALS conference in Nairobi, Kenya Grant from Goethe University's Faculty of Modern Languages (Forschungsförderung am FB10) for the organisation of the international conference “Representing Automobility in Literature and Film" Grant from Deutsch-Französische Hochschule for the organisation of the international conference “Representing Automobility in Literature and Film" Grant from Goethe University's Faculty of Modern Languages (Forschungsförderung am FB10) for the participation in Harvard University's Institute for World Literature Summer School Grant from Goethe University's GRADE for the workshop “Publishing in the New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures" | |
Professional Memberships | |
|
GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies) EACLALS (European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Deutscher Anglistenverband GRADE (Goethe Graduate Academy) Co-Chair of the Working Group “Transcultural Narratives" at GRADE (2021-2025) | |
Teaching | |
|
Two lectures ("Trans/Cultural Mobility" and "From Postcolonial to Transcultural Theory: Negotiating New Developments") in the Introduction to to M.A. Moving Cultures - Transcultural Encounters, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2025/26. "Indigenous Australian Literature", Hauptseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2025/26. "African-European
Connections in Literature," Hauptseminar, Goethe University
Frankfurt, Summer 2025. "'To arrive is never to arrive': Mobility and Migration in Anglophone Texts," Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2024/25. "'The force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth': Energy in Transcultural Anglophone Texts," Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Summer 2024. Co-taught with Dr Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell. "Drive! Representing the Road in Anglophone Texts from the 1960s to the Present," Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2023/24 "Changing Narratives of Automobility", Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2022/23 "'Running from both the Living and the Dead': Imagining Environmental and Mobility Justice in Transcultural Anglophone Texts", Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Summer 2022. Co-taught with Dr Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell. "Petroficiton", Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2021/2022 "Around the World with the Road Narrative: Identity, Automobility and Transculturality in Contemporary Anglophone Road Novels and Road Movies", Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Summer 2021. |