Dr. Kevin Potter, BA MA

T: +43-1-4277-42485

kevinp65@univie.ac.at

Consultation hours: By appointment

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. In 2022, I completed my Ph.D, where I explored the intersection between migrant literature, poetics, and the philosophy of movement, culminating in what I called a "kinopoetics". This thesis has since been expanded and adapted to form the basis of my first monograph, Poetics of the Migrant, set to be released by Edinburgh University Press in 2023.

My current book project considers theological, ontological, and political anarchisms in 19th Century British Literature. I am also an associated member of the “Mobile Cultures and Societies” research platform. I have scholarly articles published or forthcoming in ARIEL, Poetics Today, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, New Formations, 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 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)

Summer term 2023

123044 PS PS Literary Studies - Palestinian Literatures in English

124643 VO BEd 04.3: History of Literatures in English

Winter term 2022

123422 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English - James Joyce’s "Ulysses", 100 Years Later

124643 VO BEd 04.3: History of Literatures in English

128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts / Theory (MA)

Potter, K. (Accepted/In press). Revolutionary Tendencies: Theories of Working-class Literature. In The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature Routledge.

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://ejlw.eu/article/view/41228/38126

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 - An Open Access Journal 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.

Potter, K. (2016). Expansion/Expulsion: Review of Thomas Nail's The Figure of the Migrant. New Formations, 89.

Potter, K. (2015). Utopian Registers of the New Italian Epic: Wu Ming and the Socially-Symbolic Act. Incontri. Rivista Europa di Studi Italiani, 30(1), 76-84.

Kevin Potter

Postdoc

Department of English and American Studies

Postal address:

Austria

Employment

Predoc

Department of English and American Studies

Universität Wien

Austria

1 Nov 2017 → 27 Feb 2022

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

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. In 2022, I completed my Ph.D, where I explored the intersection between migrant literature, poetics, and the philosophy of movement, culminating in what I called a "kinopoetics". This thesis has since been expanded and adapted to form the basis of my first monograph, Poetics of the Migrant, set to be released by Edinburgh University Press in 2023.

My current book project considers theological, ontological, and political anarchisms in 19th Century British Literature. I am also an associated member of the “Mobile Cultures and Societies” research platform. I have scholarly articles published or forthcoming in ARIEL, Poetics Today, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, New Formations, and Incontri; and my public writing has appeared in Jacobin, ROAR Magazine, Monthly Review, The Millions, and Dissident Voice.

Publications

Revolutionary Tendencies: Theories of Working-class Literature

Potter, K., 2024, (Accepted/In press) The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature. Routledge

Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion

Potter, K., Oct 2023, Edinburgh University Press.

Introduction: Life Writing through Refugee Tales

Mayer, S., Potter, K. & Mieszkowski, S., 2023, In: European Journal of Life Writing. 12, p. 1-22 22 p.

Kropotkin, Peter

Potter, K., 2023, Encyclopedia of London's East End. Morrison, K. (ed.). McFarland, p. 125

Refugee Tales

Mayer, S. (ed.), Potter, K. (ed.) & Mieszkowski, S. (ed.), 2023, University of Groningen Press. (European Journal of Life Writing, Vol. 12).

Laying Down Loves Laws: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Micro-Fascisms

Potter, K., Jul 2022, In: Deleuze and Guattari Studies. 16, 3, p. 454-478 25 p.

The Left Should See Our Movement as a Dynamic Ecology

Potter, K., 31 Jan 2022, Jacobin.

Katja Sarkowsky and Mark U. Stein, eds. Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill Rodopi, 2021. 262 pp.

Heinz, S. & Potter, K., 2022, Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies, 33, 3, p. 150-151 2 p.

'Don't Get Too Comfortable': Regimes of Motility in Shailja Patel's Migritude

Potter, K., Jun 2021, Cultural Mobilities Between Africa and the Caribbean. Englert, B., Thomsen, S. & Gföllner, B. (eds.). Routledge, p. 176-188

'Resist much, obey little': Walt Whitman and the Paris Commune

Potter, K., 26 Mar 2021, ROAR Magazine.

Austria's 'Unsozial' Capitalists in a Time of Crisis

Potter, K., 3 Apr 2020, Monthly Review Online.

Disturbances of the Home/land in Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures: Special issue of "Humanities - An Open Access Journal"

Konrad, T. (ed.), Heinz, S. (ed.), Klik, L. (ed.) & Potter, K. (ed.), 2020, Multi-disciplinary digital publishing institute (MDPI). (Humanities - An Open Access Journal; No. 3+4, Vol. 9).

"Poetics, Form, and Marxism's Concern with Style": A Review of Daniel Hartley's The Politics of Style (Brill, 2017)

Potter, K., 1 Dec 2019, In: Poetics Today. 40, 4, p. 721-730 7 p.

Centrifugal Force and the Mouth of a Shark: Toward a Movement-Oriented Poetics

Potter, K., Oct 2019, In: ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 50, 4, p. 51-78 28 p.

Review of Sneharika Roy's The Postcolonial Epic

Potter, K., Oct 2019, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 50, 4, p. 141-144 4 p.

Reading Vonnegut to Cope with Death

Potter, K., 15 Oct 2018, The Millions.

Prosperity as a Crypt to Crisis

Potter, K., 2017, In: Dissident Voice.

Expansion/Expulsion: Review of Thomas Nail's The Figure of the Migrant

Potter, K., 2016, In: New Formations. 89

Utopian Registers of the New Italian Epic: Wu Ming and the Socially-Symbolic Act

Potter, K., Jul 2015, In: Incontri. Rivista Europa di Studi Italiani. 30, 1, p. 76-84 9 p.