Her diploma thesis entitled "Books against Forgetting" was dedicated to Carinthian Slovenian literature on resistance and persecution in the context of Holocaust autobiography.
[2] During her studies, Goetz was a consultant for feminist politics at the Federal Representation of the Austrian Students' Union.
[citation needed] Her research focuses on feminist theory, gender-reflective perspectives on right-wing extremism,[3] antifeminism, memorial politics, culture of remembrance and antisemitism.
As a member of the Ideologies and Politics of Inequality Research Group (FIPU), she was involved in the book Right-Wing Extremism - Volume 1: Developments and Analysis published in 2014.
Together with Helga Amesberger, Brigitte Halbmayr and Dirk Lange, she also edited the 2021 anthology Continuities of the Stigmatization of 'Asociality': Perspectives of Socially Critical Political Education,[16] for which she wrote several articles.