Victoria Pöhls
Research Interests
- Writing under the pressure of censorship: Transnational and trans-epochal circumvention strategies, stylistic and aesthetical characteristics of (self-)censorship, experimental approaches to reader response
- Multilingual writing
- Intertextuality, self-referentiality, cultural and contextual knowledge – and their effect on reader’s reception
- Stereotypes in literature
- Heinrich von Kleist, J.M.R. Lenz, Heinrich Heine, Poetry of the Fin de siècle, Dadaism, Exile literature (especially in contemporary literature)
- Contemporary Iranian literature
Vita
Academic Education
| 10/2013-09/2015 | M.A. German Literatures, University Hamburg, Germany |
| 09/2012-10/2013 | M.A. Cognitive Science, University College, Dublin, Ireland |
| 10/2010-08/2012 | B.A. German Language and Literature, Philosophy, University Hamburg, Germany |
| 10/2007-08/2010 | Junior Studies German Language and Literature, Philosophy, University Hamburg, Germany |
Professional Experience
| since 02/2017 | research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 01/2016-07/2016 | Fellowship, Universals in Perception, Advanced Reasoning Forum, Socorro, U.S.A. |
| 2013-2015 | Geisteswissenschaftliches Kolleg der Scholarship Foundation, research group "Language in Literature" |
| 2011-2012 | Forum Scientiarum, Tübingen, research group "Language & Cognition" |
| 09/2011 | Summer School of the Scholarship Foundation, Olang, research group "Die Neurophilosophie von Farben und Klängen" |
Publications
Journal Articles
Poehls, V. (2016). "Zweideutige Weibsbilder!" Personifikationen der Zensur in Heinrich Heines Schnabelewopski. Exilograph Sonderheft für Doerte Bischoff 15-17.
Poehls, V. (2015). "Um Atmen zu können". SAID im Gespräch mit Victoria Pöhls. Exilograph. Interexilische Korrespondenzen, 23, 201-233.
Poehls, V. (2014). "Im Gefängnis gab es weder Blätter noch Stifte." Reflexionen zu ungewöhnlichen Schreibmaterialien in Abbas Khiders 'Der falsche Inder'. Exilograph. Die Gegenwart des Exils. Zur Konjunktur von Exilerzählungen, 21, 11-15.
Poehls, V. (2013). Testing the untestable? Giving Evidence for Linguistic Relativity. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (RIFL), 7(3), 98-108. doi:10.4396/20131210
Book Sections
Poehls, V. (in press). Literatur und Zensur: Transnationale Implikationen. In D. Bischoff & S. Komfort-Hein (Eds.), Handbuch Literatur & Transnationalität. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter.
Poehls, V. (in press). Censorship and Exile. In B. Bannasch, H. Schreckenberger & A. E. Steinweis (Eds.), Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Exilforschung (Vol. 34). München: edition text und kritik.
Poehls, V. (2016). Zwischen den Geschlechtern? Eine empirische Untersuchung zum Einfluss von Genus, Geschlecht und Kultur auf die Wahrnehmung von Objekt- und Körpervokabular. In N. Weidtmann (Ed.), Sprache und Kognition: Theory of Mind, Emergenz, Neue Medien, Freiheit, Grenzen (pp. 201-233). Berlin: Lit Verlag.
Awards & Grants
| 2016 | scholarship of the Advanced Reasoning Forums |
| 2015 | research fellowship, University Hamburg, Germany |
| 2010-2015 | German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) |
| 2012-2013 | scholarship abroad (M.A.), University College Dublin, Ireland |