Dr. Kevin Potter, BA MA

T: +43-1-4277-42485

kevinp65@univie.ac.at

News: Read here the statement in protest of the removal of "Palestine in Global Contexts" lecture series at the University of Vienna:
https://afrika.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/rassismuskritische-ag/protest/

Consultation hours: By appointment

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, where my research and teaching primarily focus on Marxist theory, migrant literature, anarchist thought, dystopian fiction, and Palestine. My first book, Poetics of the Migrant, was released in 2023 through Edinburgh University Press, and received honorable mention for the 2024 Hugh J. Silverman Prize from the Association for Philosophy and Literature.

My current book project considers theological, ontological, and political anarchisms in 19th Century British Literature. I have scholarly articles published or forthcoming in ARIEL, Poetics Today, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, New Formations, the European Journal of Life Writing, and Incontri; and my public writing has appeared in Jacobin, ROAR Magazine, Monthly Review, The Millions, and Dissident Voice.

I am a huge nerd when it comes to narrative, representation, theory, and poetics, especially as they intervene in bigger questions of power, subjectivity, ideology, and critique. I am happy to meet with students to discuss any of these topics, along with related concerns about literary and cultural studies.

Winter term 2024

123421 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA American / North American Lit. Studies - Form, Ideology, and Fredric Jameson

124643 VO BEd 04.3: History of Literatures in English

128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts (MA)

Summer term 2024

124643 VO BEd 04.3: History of Literatures in English

127011 KO Critical Readings in Literature - Gaza and the West Bank: Occupied Palestine in Anglophone World Literature

Winter term 2023

123044 PS PS Literary Studies - 20th and 21st Century Working-Class Literatures

124643 VO BEd 04.3: History of Literatures in English

128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts (MA)

Potter, K. (2024). A Punishing Memory Culture. Monthly Review Online. https://mronline.org/2024/08/29/a-punishing-memory-culture/

Potter, K. (2024). Was nicht mehr gelehrt werden darf. Web publication, Jacobin.de. https://www.jacobin.de/artikel/universitaet-wien-gaza-palaestina-protestcamp

Potter, K. (Accepted/In press). Review of Chantelle Gray's Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari (2022). Deleuze and Guattari Studies.

Potter, K. (2023). Populism as a Floating Signifier. In J. Chacko Chennattuserry, M. Deshpande, & P. Hong (Eds.), Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century (pp. 1-5). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9859-0_391-1

Potter, K. (2023). Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion. Edinburgh University Press.

Mayer, S., Potter, K., & Mieszkowski, S. (2023). Introduction: Life Writing through Refugee Tales. European Journal of Life Writing, 12, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.12.41228

Potter, K. (2023). Kropotkin, Peter. In K. Morrison (Ed.), Encyclopedia of London's East End (pp. 125). McFarland.

Mayer, S., Potter, K., & Mieszkowski, S. (Eds.) (2023). Refugee Tales. University of Groningen Press. European Journal of Life Writing Vol. 12 https://ejlw.eu/issue/view/5106

Potter, K. (2022). Laying Down Loves Laws: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Micro-Fascisms. Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 16(3), 454-478.

Potter, K. (2022). The Left Should See Our Movement as a Dynamic Ecology. Jacobin. https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/rodrigo-nunes-book-political-organization-strategy-activism

Heinz, S., & Potter, K. (2022). Katja Sarkowsky and Mark U. Stein, eds. Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill Rodopi, 2021. 262 pp. Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies, 33(3), 150-151.

Potter, K. (2021). 'Don't Get Too Comfortable': Regimes of Motility in Shailja Patel's Migritude. In B. Englert, S. Thomsen, & B. Gföllner (Eds.), Cultural Mobilities Between Africa and the Caribbean (pp. 176-188). Routledge.

Potter, K. (2021). 'Resist much, obey little': Walt Whitman and the Paris Commune. ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/walt-whitman-paris-commune-150/

Potter, K. (2020). Austria's 'Unsozial' Capitalists in a Time of Crisis. Monthly Review Online. https://mronline.org/2020/04/03/austrias-unsozial-capitalists-in-a-time-of-crisis/

Konrad, T., Heinz, S., Klik, L., & Potter, K. (Eds.) (2020). Disturbances of the Home/land in Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures: Special issue of "Humanities - An Open Access Journal". Multi-disciplinary digital publishing institute (MDPI). Humanities Vol. 9 No. 3+4 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/anglophone_postcolonial

Potter, K. (2019). "Poetics, Form, and Marxism's Concern with Style": A Review of Daniel Hartley's The Politics of Style (Brill, 2017). Poetics Today, 40(4), 721-730.

Potter, K. (2019). Centrifugal Force and the Mouth of a Shark: Toward a Movement-Oriented Poetics. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 50(4), 51-78.

Potter, K. (2019). Review of Sneharika Roy's The Postcolonial Epic. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 50(4), 141-144.

Potter, K. (2018). Reading Vonnegut to Cope with Death. The Millions. https://themillions.com/2018/10/reading-vonnegut-to-cope-with-death.html

Potter, K. (2017). Prosperity as a Crypt to Crisis. Dissident Voice.

Kevin Potter

Postdoc

Department of English and American Studies

Type of address: Postal address.

Austria

Curriculum vitae

2017-2022 Ph.D, English and Anglophone Literatures, University of Vienna

2013-2015 M.A. (Research Master's), Comparative Literary Studies, Utrecht University

2009-2013 B.A. English, University of South Florida

Research interests

My current book project considers theological, ontological, and political anarchisms in 19th Century British Literature. I have scholarly articles published or forthcoming in ARIEL, Poetics Today, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, New Formations, the European Journal of Life Writing, and Incontri; and my public writing has appeared in Jacobin, ROAR Magazine, Monthly Review, The Millions, and Dissident Voice.

Read here the statement in protest of the removal of "Palestine in Global Contexts" lecture series at the University of Vienna.

Prizes

Hugh J Silverman Prize

Potter, Kevin (Recipient)

Department of English and American Studies

Description

Received Honorable Mention for first book, Poetics of the Migrant

Details

Awarded date	2024
Degree of recognition	International
Granting Organisations	Association for Philosophy and Literature

Prize: Prize, award or honor

Dissertation Award for Research on Migration

Potter, Kevin (Recipient)

Department of English and American Studies

Details

Awarded date	2020
Degree of recognition	National
Granting Organisations	Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)

Prize: Prize, award or honor