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Viktoria Pötzl’s research explores the global relationship between gender, nation, and belonging. Before coming to ɬ�﷬ in fall 2019, she taught German studies, Jewish studies, and German language for over a decade in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East.

Pötzl’s current and second book project, Literally Imagined: Representations of Palestine and Israel in Jewish-Austrian Literature, explores the influence of gendered national narratives in Jewish-Austrian literary production from the former Galicia to Vienna during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Pötzl brings to light a more nuanced understanding of Jewish national belonging and complicates current historiography and literature on Zionism through an analysis of Jewish writing and thought from Eastern and Central Europe. This project has received funding and awards from the Women in German (WIG) initiative and the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). Pötzl published part of this research in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies in an article entitled “From Pan-Asianism to Safari-Zionism. Gendered Orientalism in Jewish-Austrian Literature” and with Feminist German Studies in an article entitled: “‘Across borders stretches the worker’s hand. And class at last destroys the fatherland’: Klara Blum/Zhu Bailan’s Search for Equality.”

In addition, Viktoria Pötzl’s work has been featured in Monatshefte and the Journal of Austrian Studies, where she examined the works of interwar Austrian women writers and their role in the Austrian National Socialist cultural scene. Her several book chapters focus on Jewish literary production in relation to gender and nation.

Education:

MA, PhD (University of Vienna)

Publications

Monograph

Pötzl, Viktoria: . Neofelis Verlag. Berlin: 2018. 

Reviewed by Katharina Wiedlack: “” In: WeiberDiwan, Sommer 2018. p. 14

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

Pötzl, Viktoria: “Antisemitische und Philosemitische Geschlechterkonstruktionen in Grete von Urbanitzkys Mirjams Sohn.” In:  Aneta Jachimowicz (Ed.): Frauen erzählen Geschichte. Historische Romane österreichischer Autorinnen von der Ersten zur Zweiten Republik. V&R Vienna University Press. 2022. pp. 201-212

Pötzl, Viktoria: “.”  In: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. vol 19, issue 2. Spring 2020. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). pp. 205-223.

Pötzl, Viktoria: “” In: Monatshefte. vol.112.1. Spring 2020. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 38-55. 

Pötzl, Viktoria: “” In: Journal of Austrian Studies. vol. 51, no 4: 2018. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 63–82.