At the University of Giessen, I wish to facilitate work on the nexus between political and artistic practices and academic analysis, and am interested in mentoring projects concerning cultural approaches to law/Law and Humanities, the politics of form, critical media studies, American Studies, and feminism and sexuality studies. With Jeanne Gaakeer, I run the European Network for Law and Literature Research. The Center for Diversity, Media, and Law promotes anti-discrimination measures and critical media literacy, and investigates how legal norms interact with diversity and media. The Center participates in The Global Law and the Humanities Mentorship Program.
News
“Law and Critique / Recht und Kritik“ (2025): Available now open access.
- Upcoming: Book launch for “Law & Critique / Recht & Kritik (Alber 2025) with inputs by Peter Goodrich, Heide Gerstenberger, Gerlov von Englenhoven, Ralph Grunewald, and Daria Bayer, and moderated by Greta Olson
- Now available as open access: Olson, Greta (2022). “Metaphor” / “Metaphoric Fictionality in Poems about Migration and in Anti-Immigration Discourse.” Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited. Ed. Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, James Phelan, Richard Walsh, Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, and Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen. Ohio State UP. 182-211.
- Interview (only available in German): „Minneapolis: Sprengkraft für den gesellschaftlichen Frieden in den USA„, Interview for hrINFO (26 January 2026).
- Out now: Bung, Jochen, Franziska Martinsen, Hanna Meißner, Greta Olson, Christian Schmidt and Benno Zabel, eds. (2025). Ökonomie als Gesellschaftstheorie. Kontrovers. Neue Diskurse zur Gesellschaft. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber.
- Out now: Olson, Greta (2025). “Legal Critique in the Polycrisis.”Law and Critique / Recht und Kritik. Kontrovers. Neue Diskurse zur Gesellschaft. Ed. Greta Olson, Christian Schmidt, Benno Zabel, Jochen Bung, Franziska Martinsen, Hanna Meißner. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Aber. 17-63.
- Invited Talk: “In Defence of the Legal Humanities and Narrative, Tropic, and Affect-Theoretical Approaches to Law.”Legal Humanities Association Launch and Inauguration Event (22 July 2025) Online.
Contact
Professor Greta Olson
Institut für Anglistik
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Otto-Behagel-Straße 10 B
35394 Giessen, Germany
Tel: +49 641 – 99 30091 or – 99 3031 (Administrative Assistant)
Fax: +49 641 – 99 30099
Email: Greta.Olson@anglistik.uni-giessen.de
Office hours during the semester: Please register online through Stud.IP.
The photograph above was taken in 2016 by Salar Baygan for a project on celebrating white hair initiated by Andrea Leicher, Oliver Metzler, and Nicolai Tilov.
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