Greta Olson
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, English and American Studies, Graduate Student, PhD Student, Post Doctorate (Habilitation)
Greta Olson is Professor of American and British Literature and Cultural Studies and Director of the Center for Diversity, Media, and Law (DiML) at the University of Giessen and was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” in Bonn (2014, 2016). She was the General Editor of the European Journal of English Studies (EJES) between 2010 and 2025. She is the co-founder of the European Network for Law and Literature (ENLL).
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 legal pluralism/law and literature/cultural approaches to law, the politics of form, critical media studies, American Studies, and feminism and sexuality studies. As a general editor of EJES (http://essenglish.org/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.
Address: Institute Anglistik
University of Giessen
Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 B
35394 Giessen, Germany
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 legal pluralism/law and literature/cultural approaches to law, the politics of form, critical media studies, American Studies, and feminism and sexuality studies. As a general editor of EJES (http://essenglish.org/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.
Address: Institute Anglistik
University of Giessen
Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 B
35394 Giessen, Germany
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In a dialogue, the authors discuss controversies in feminisms and their hopes for feminist futures. The first sections dismantle oppositional catfight narratives regarding feminisms and highlight the misogynist and transphobic cultural-political work they perform. Feminists and trans activists find common cause in resisting the subordination and control of womxn’s and trans persons’ bodies. Later sections outline an activist approach to doing feminisms online, while asking participants to keep the capitalist embeddedness of social media in mind. Body-positive activism and body neutrality are explored as strategies of resistance. Rather than adhering to a narrative of opposition, the authors advocate for acknowledging the common ground that shared vulnerability holds for community building and mobilising political agency. Healing and points of joy are sought in connection.
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BOOK LAUNCH: Diversity Issues in the USA: Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Elections.
When: 23 October 2024, 4:15 to 6 PM (CET)
Where: at the JLU Giessen and online via Zoom.
From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect by Greta Olson
and Humanities, 17:1, 199-203, DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2205329
Review for Olson, Greta (2022) "From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect."
Law by Greta Olson
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction appeared to augur change regarding how sexual violence and coercion are understood and was heralded as a triumph of the #MeToo movement. Patterns of victim shaming were disrupted, and the legal obfuscation of rape as recognizable only when demonstrable physical threat occurs was challenged. The movement can be regarded as a form of transitional justice that has been created by affective truths and which addresses the failures of procedural law. An analysis of the trial transcripts, and the contest of narratives they record, demonstrates that exultation about Weinstein's conviction is shortsighted. The verdict, like the trial's outcome, is mixed.
The complete special issue can be accessed here:
https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-3/
http://rdl.org.br/seer/index.php/anamps/issue/view/20/showToc
This is the author's version of the published essay “On Narrating and Troping the Law: The Conjoined Use of Narrative and Metaphor in Legal Discourse,” with an added reference to Lynne Huffer’s title, which was missing in the published version.
Introduction to the issue. https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/onculture/issue/view/86
PDF contains entirety of the issue.
In a dialogue, the authors discuss controversies in feminisms and their hopes for feminist futures. The first sections dismantle oppositional catfight narratives regarding feminisms and highlight the misogynist and transphobic cultural-political work they perform. Feminists and trans activists find common cause in resisting the subordination and control of womxn’s and trans persons’ bodies. Later sections outline an activist approach to doing feminisms online, while asking participants to keep the capitalist embeddedness of social media in mind. Body-positive activism and body neutrality are explored as strategies of resistance. Rather than adhering to a narrative of opposition, the authors advocate for acknowledging the common ground that shared vulnerability holds for community building and mobilising political agency. Healing and points of joy are sought in connection.
- IMPORTANT - Please note that the room has changed.
BOOK LAUNCH: Diversity Issues in the USA: Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Elections.
When: 23 October 2024, 4:15 to 6 PM (CET)
Where: at the JLU Giessen and online via Zoom.
and Humanities, 17:1, 199-203, DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2205329
Review for Olson, Greta (2022) "From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect."
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction appeared to augur change regarding how sexual violence and coercion are understood and was heralded as a triumph of the #MeToo movement. Patterns of victim shaming were disrupted, and the legal obfuscation of rape as recognizable only when demonstrable physical threat occurs was challenged. The movement can be regarded as a form of transitional justice that has been created by affective truths and which addresses the failures of procedural law. An analysis of the trial transcripts, and the contest of narratives they record, demonstrates that exultation about Weinstein's conviction is shortsighted. The verdict, like the trial's outcome, is mixed.
The complete special issue can be accessed here:
https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-3/
http://rdl.org.br/seer/index.php/anamps/issue/view/20/showToc
This is the author's version of the published essay “On Narrating and Troping the Law: The Conjoined Use of Narrative and Metaphor in Legal Discourse,” with an added reference to Lynne Huffer’s title, which was missing in the published version.
Introduction to the issue. https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/onculture/issue/view/86
PDF contains entirety of the issue.
Version with an expanded ending.
Please note that the page numbers of the document do NOT concur with the page numbers of the publication.
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Greta Olson's afterword examines the debates concerning ambivalences of trans visibility; white Anglophone (and US American) privilege in trans representations and trans studies more widely, and the need for greater internationalization; and how more nuanced debates about trans lives and trans representations have been occurring during the past few years.
For these reasons, and because of television’s preoccupation with crime, this article concentrates on television as a formally feminized medium that has for technological and social reasons now become more highly valued. Critiquing the conjoining of masculinity and cultural value is a feminist task. As viewers watch their favorite series in public spaces on handheld devices, and certain series are considered novelistic and complex enough to supersede other cultural forums, television has gained new cultural credence and is a premier space in which to relate popular images about women and criminal justice.
Keywords
feminist media studies, popular culture, women as victims, femmes fatale, monstrous women, justified criminals, women in law enforcement
This is the author’s version of the text and represents a longer version of the one that has just been published by Routledge as https://www.crcpress.com/9781138665880
Important note: the page numbers in the document do NOT correspond with the page numbers in the book.
This is the author’s version of the text and represents a longer version of the one that has just been published by Routledge as https://www.crcpress.com/9781138665880
Important note: the page numbers in the document do NOT correspond with the page numbers in the book.
Available at https://www.routledge.com/9781138665880
http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/visual-unreliability-and-the-questioning-of-security-measures-in-homeland
This PDF includes the Title Page and List of Contents/Illustrations/Abbreviations as well as the first chapter.
essenglish.org. The European Society for the Study of English. 5 July 2019. https://essenglish.org/messenger/blog/in-memoriam-professor-herbert-grabes-1936-2015/
This essay examines the relationship between fictionality and tropes in visual and verbal images of immigration to argue that "metaphorical imagining" constitutes a form of fictionality.
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Research LAB | 01.07.2021
Wie kann in Wissenschaft und Forschung über Grenzen hinweg gearbeitet werden? In der zweiten Folge des Research LAB der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen diskutiert Prof. Dr. Greta Olson von der Anglistik mit dem Gießener Zentrum für Materialforschung mit dem Medizinhistoriker PD Dr. Michael Knipper zu Fächer- und Landesgrenzen, auf Einladung von Martha Oelschläger und Cornelia Walter vom Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft.
Feminist and Sexuality Studies, by Eds. Greta Olson et al. Feminist Formations 31.1 (2019): 168-170.