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 | PhD student 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
Pöhls, V., & Schirrmacher, S. (2020). Über den Gehalt der Lehre. Undercurrents - Literatur lehren, 15. Retrieved from https://undercurrentsforum.com/index.php/undercurrents/article/view/122
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 Chapters
Pöhls, R. L. V. (2020). Engaging Literature - Emotions as Route to political and Societal Engagement? . In P. Ekardt, F. Fehrenbach, & C. Zumbusch (Eds.), Politische Emotionen in den Künsten - Mnemosyne. Schriften des internationalen Warburg-Kollegs (pp. 219–240). Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110725384-013
Pöhls, R. L. V. (2020). Ästhetischer und politischer Transnationalismus in engagierter, selbstzensierter Literatur. In S. Arnaudova & D. Bischoff (Eds.), Figuren des Transnationalen. (Re-)Visionen der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (pp. 62–74). Dresden: Thelem.
Pöhls, V. (2019). Literatur und Zensur: Transnationale Implikationen. In D. Bischoff & S. Komfort-Hein (Eds.), Handbuch Literatur & Transnationalität - Handbücher zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Philologie 7 (pp. 216–228). Berlin: 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.
Edited Book
Pöhls, R. L. Victoria, & Utudji, M. (Eds.). (2021). Powerful Prose. How Textual Features Impact Readers. Bielefeld: Transcript. Powerful Prose
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 |