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 Literature, the politics of form, critical media studies, American Studies, and feminism and sexuality studies. As a general editor of EJES, I wish to encourage proposals for special issues that span divides between cultural theory, literary analysis, and linguistics and reflect on the study of English within Europe. With Jeanne Gaakeer, I run the European Network for Law and Literature Research.
Newest Publications
- Olson, Greta (2022). From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect Oxford: Oxford UP.
- Olson, Greta, and Elisabeth Lechner (2022). “#Feminist – Debating Controversies and Points of Joy in Current Feminisms.” European Journal of English Studies 26.2 (Taylor & Francis). 292-321.
- Olson, Greta (2022). “Legal Facts, Affective Truths, and Changing Narratives in Trials Involving Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo.” Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. Ed. Paul Dawson and Maria Mäkelä, London and New York: Routledge. 179-192.
- Olson, Greta, and Laura Borchert (2022). “Transing” / “Narrative Authority, Affective Unreliability, and Transing Law,” Research Handbook in Law and Literature. Ed. Daniela Gandorfer, Cecilia Gebruers, and Peter Goodrich. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 378-400.
Recent Talks
Keynote: “Naming and Resisting Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBTQIA Narratives and Tropes: Philology as Political Practice,” 49th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) on “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice” (21 October 2022), Unipark Nonntal, Salzburg
Featured Lecture: “Von der Schwierigkeit und Notwendigkeit feministisch zu arbieten,“ Femme*Festival Giessen (21 September 2022), University of Giessen
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 (Stefanie Rück, MA)
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 by Salar Baygan for a project on celebrating white hair initiated by Andrea Leicher, Oliver Metzler, and Nicolai Tilov.
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