Greta Olson

Many of my published texts or excerpts thereof can be accessed on academia.edu and ResearchGate.

Books

Recent Publications

• Olson, Greta, Christian Schmidt, Benno Zabel, Jochen Bung, Franziska Martinsen, Hanna Meißner, eds. (2025). Law and Critique / Recht und Kritik. Kontrovers. Neue Diskurse zur Gesellschaft. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber.
• 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.
• 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.
• Olson, Greta (2025). “Sensus Juridicus: A Legal Hermeneut and Narrator’s Exploration of rechtsbewustzijn and Rechtsgefühl in the Praxis of Judging.” Forever Composed of Nows:Celebrating Jeanne Gaakeer’s Work on Law, Language and Literature.Ed. Claudia Bouteligier, Pauline Phoa and Sanne Taekema. The Hague: Boom. 221-233.
• Olson, Greta (2025). “Race as Predicating Law and Literature and as Simultaneous Late Arrival.” Special Issue on “The Place of Race in Law & Literature.” EJES 29 (1). Ed. Andrew Benjamin Bricker, Elise Wang, and Cedric Essi. 5-13.
• Olson, Greta (2025). EJES as a Joyful Practice in Transversing the Borders of the European and the Limits of English Studies. European Journal of English Studies, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2025.2546945
• Olson, Greta. (2025). “Futures of Feminist Law and Literature – An Afterward.” Feminist Perspectives on Law and Literature. Ed. Hanna Luise Kroll, Laura Schmitz-Justen, Laura Wittmann and Laura Zander. Berlin: De Gruyter. 309-330.
• Olson, Greta (2025). “The Utopian Desire for a Just Legal Order and Rechtsgefühle” in a special issue on “Utopie einer neuen normativen Ordnung.” Ed. Daria Bayer, Sören Deister, Marcus Döller, Simon Kneip, Hannah Ofterdinger, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 174: 11-25.
• Olson, Greta. (2025). Entry on “Victimization.” Elgar Encyclopedia of Law & Literature. Ed. Robert Spoo and Simon Stern. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 503-506.
• Von Der Brelie, Kira (2024). “US-Expertin: ‚Viele finden Trump humorvoll und bodenständig‘.” RND.de, November 9, 2024.
• Olson, Greta, and Melanie Kreitler, eds. (2024). Diversity Issues in the U.S.A.: Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Elections. Bielefeld: transcript.
• Olson, Greta (2023). “Why Rechtsgefühle? Why do people have impassioned feelings about justice and the law? The Turn to Affect in Legal Studies” Feelings about Justice/Law: The Relevance of Affect to the Development of Law in Pluralistic Legal Cultures // Rechtsgefühle. Die Relevanz des Affektiven für die Rechtsentwicklung in pluralen Rechtskulturen. Ed. Thorsten Keiser, Greta Olson and Franz Reimer. Baden Baden: Nomos Verlag. 17-53.
• 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.
• Majeske, Andrew and Greta Olson (2022). Review of Greta Olson’s From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect followed by a Question and Answer Exchange with Greta Olson. New American Studies Journal Vol. 73: Law, Literature, and the Idea of Justice.
• 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 Elisabeth Lechner (2022). “#Feminist – Debating Controversies and Points of Joy in Current Feminisms,” Patriarchal backlashes to feminism in times of crisis. Ed. Florence Binard and Renate Haas, The European Journal of the Study of English 26.2 (Taylor & Francis). 292-321.
• 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.
• Olson, Greta (2021). “Afterword – Trans* Time and the Internationalization of Trans Studies.” Trans* Time: Projecting Transness in European (TV) Series. Ed. Danae Gallo González. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag. 191-202.
• Olson, Greta (2020). “Being in Uncertainty: Thinking the Coronavirus Pandemic.” In the Realm of Corona Normativities. A Momentary Snapshot of a Dynamic Discourse. Ed. Werner Gephart. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann. 425-32.
• Olson, Greta (2020). “Love and Hate Online – Affect Politics in the Era of Trump.” Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol. Ed. Sara Polak, and Daniel Trottier. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP. 156-77.
• Olson, Greta with Janna Wessels (2020). “Imag(in)ing Human Rights: Deindividualizing, Victimizing, and Universalizing Images of Refugees in the United States and Germany.” The State of Human Rights: Historical Genealogies, Historical Controversies, and Cultural Imaginaries. Ed. Kerstin Schmidt, foreword by Saskia Sassen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 249-64.
• Olson, Greta, Daniel Hartley, Mirjam Horn-Schott, and Leonie Schmidt, eds. (2018). Beyond Gender: Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies – An Advanced Introduction. London: Routledge. Reprinted as a paperback (2019).
• Olson, Greta and Jan Alber, eds. (2018). How to Do Things with Narrative: Cognitive and Diachronic Perspectives. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. Reprinted as a paperback (2019).