Goethe-Universität

NELK

Apr 27 2026

New Publication: Michelle Stork "Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives"

Dr. Michelle Stork's monograph Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives has just been published as part of the series Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture by Palgrave Macmillan.

Transcultural Automobilities analyzes contemporary Anglophone road narratives from a transcultural perspective. By bringing together texts set in Australia, Africa, Canada, Europe, Aotearoa/New Zealand, India, and the US, it grapples with the road narrative as a global genre as opposed to a traditionally American one. In so doing, it conceptualizes the genre in a deterritorialized manner and highlights engagement with transcultural phenomena through ten close readings.

Building on literary mobility studies, the book interrogates the poetics and politics of automobility, as well as the affordances and limits of this form of mobility. It also contributes to larger debates concerning the role of technologies and infrastructures under global modernity.

In short, Transcultural Automobilities examines the myriad forms road narratives take across diverse geographical settings. It applies literary studies tools to mobility concepts and thereby connects literary, mobility and transcultural approaches.

You can get off 20% with the code PALAUT.

Feel free to contact m.stork[@]em.uni-frankfurt.de for more information. Please also share the book with any interested colleagues and students.

American Studies

Apr 24 2026

- 25.04.2026

Democratic Vistas Annual Workshop in cooperation with GRK 3113 »Aesthetics of Democracy«

Apr 24

19:00 Uhr

Keynote Lecture: Eva Illouz (Jerusalem/Paris) "Is Guilt Good for Democracy?" |

From 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m
Venue: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Registration before April 21: anmeldung@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de
You will receive a registration confirmation.

Eva Illouz is a professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She has published numerous books on the sociology of emotions, consumer capitalism, and modern culture. For her work, she was awarded the Frank Schirrmacher Prize 2024, the Aby Warburg Prize 2024, and the EMET Prize for Social Sciences, among others. Latest book publications: The Emotional Life of Populism. How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy (Polity Press, 2023), Der 8. Oktober. Über die Ursprünge des neuen Antisemitismus (in German, Suhrkamp, 2025), and Explosive Emotions. How Modern Society Shapes What We Feel (Princeton University Press, 2026).

Apr 25

09:00 Uhr

Workshop with Eva Illouz

From 9.30 a.m. to 4.15 p.m
Venue: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Registration: Ma.Renz@em.uni-frankfurt.de