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Prof. Dr. Greta Olson

Function

  • Board member
  • Section 1 & Section 3
Prof. Dr. Greta Olson

Prof. Dr. Greta Olson

Contact

Contact

Department of English Studies

Justus Liebig University Giessen
Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 B
35394 Giessen

Tel: +49 (0)641 99 30091
Fax: +49 (0)641 99 30092
 
Short Biography

  • 2009  present W3 Professorship in English and American Literature and Cultural Studies at the JLU
  • 2014 & 2016 Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture" (University of Bonn and Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
  • 2004 – 2008 University of Freiburg: Assistant professor under the auspices of a German Research Foundation grant for the project "Law, Norm and Criminalization"
  • 2003 University of Basel: Guest lecturer in English Literary Studies
  • 2002 – 2003 University of Bonn: Guest professor in American Studies
  • 2001 University of Innsbruck: Guest lecturer in Social Psychology
  • 2000 – 2002 University of Freiburg: Lecturer in English Literary and Cultural Studies
  • 1986 Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College with general and departmental honors in philosophy and studio art; elected member of the Phi Beta Kappa society; two semesters at University College London, philosophy and art history
Main Research Interests

  • Law and literature/culture
  • Punitivity
  • Intermedial narratology
  • Animal studies
  • Feminist and gender studies