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Publications

Books and Editions

Greta Olson with Martin Kayman, eds. Special issue of the European Journal of English Studies on Law, Literature, and Language. Vol. 11, Issue 1 (Routledge) April 2007.

Greta Olson with Monika Fludernik, eds. In the Grip of the Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004.

Greta Olson. Reading Eating Disorders: Writings on Bulimia and Anorexia as Confessions of American Culture. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003.


Essays

Greta Olson. "Criminalized Bodies in Literature and Biocriminology." The Body as Interface: Dialogues Between the Disciplines. Ed. Sabine Sielke and Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2007. Amerikastudien - American Studies. 257-278.

Greta Olson. Review Essay: "Visions and Revisions of Law-and-Literature" (Review of: Literature and Law, ed. Michael J. Meyer Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004 und Law and Literature, ed. Patrick Hanafin, Adam Gearey und Joseph Brooker: Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.)
In: IASLonline [25.04.2007]

Greta Olson with Martin Kayman."From 'Law-and-Literature' to 'Law, Literature and Language: A Comparative Approach.'" European Journal of English Studies. Vol. 11, Issue 1 (April 2007): 1-15.
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Greta Olson with Verena Krenberger. "Durchsetzung und Schutz von Menschenrechten mit allen Mitteln? Zur Folterdebatte in Deutschland und in den Vereinigten Staaten" (Imposing and Protecting Human Rights Using All Means? On the Torture Debate in Germany and the United States). Ethik des Strafens / The Ethics of Punishment. Ed. Hans-Helmut Gander and Monika Fludernik. Ergon-Verlag: Würzburg. 177-210. (Click here to view abstract as pdf.)

Greta Olson. "Reading and Writing Academically as a Mother." 18/06 "Elternschaft." Freiburger Frauen-Studien. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauenforschung. Sonderausgabe zum Thema Elternschaft. 18 (2006): 231 - 249.

Greta Olson. "Teaching Gender Studies in Creative Writing and Performance." Gender Talks: Geschlechterforschung an der Universität Bonn. Ed. Sabine Sielke and Anke Ortlepp. Lang: Frankfurt, 2006. 115-132. (Click here to buy the book.)

Greta Olson. "Fat and Class Prejudice: America's Two Bodies Society." US Icons and Iconicity. Ed. Walter Hölbling, Klaus and Susanne Rieser. Münster: LIT, 2006. 187-204. (Click here to view pdf.) (Click here to buy the book.)

Greta Olson. "Richard III's Animalistic Criminal Body." Philological Quarterly. 82:3 (2005): 301-324.
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Greta Olson. "Introducing Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones." Twenty-First Century Fiction: Readings, Essays, Conversations.
Ed. Christoph Ribbat. anglistik & englischunterricht 68. Heidelberg: Winter, 2005. 7-32.

Greta Olson. "Inarticulate, Violent White American Men.” Anti-Americanisms. Ed. Michael Draxlbauer, Astrid Fellner, Thomas Fröschl.
Münster: LIT, 2004. 233-251.

Greta Olson. "Divisions Within and Divisions Without: 9/11 and E. Lynn Harris's A Love of My Own." Die US-amerikanische Gesellschaft im Spiegel ihrer zeitgenössischen Literatur. Ed. Hans-Peter Burmeister. Loccumer Protokolle 74/03. Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 2004. 115-129.

Greta Olson. "Law as Thought Pattern and Ordering Principle in Shakespeare's Trial Scenes." In the Grip of Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between. Ed. Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004. 43-63.

Greta Olson with Monika Fludernik. "Introduction." In the Grip of Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between. Ed. Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004. xiii-xlv.

Greta Olson. "The Body as Monster: Depictions of Eating Disorders as Reflections of American Culture." The EmBodyment of American Culture. Ed. M. Devine, M. Draxlbauer, H. Tschachler. Münster: LIT, 2003. 111-128.

Greta Olson. "Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators." Narrative 11, No. 1 (January 2003): 93-109.
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Greta Olson. "Keyholes in Eighteenth-Century Novels as Liminal Spaces between the Public and Private Spheres." Sites of Discourse – Public and Private Spheres – Legal Culture: Papers from a Conference Held at the Technical University of Dresden. Ed. Uwe Böker and Julie Hibbard. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 64. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. 151-167.


Forthcoming

Greta Olson. "Sexual Selection, Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex and T. C. Boyle's Drop City: Transfers between Science and Contemporary Fiction and Culture." Science and Literature. Ed. Cedric Barfoot and Valeria Tinkler. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Greta Olson. 'Criminal Animals' and the Rise of Biocriminology—From Shakespeare to Dickens.

Greta Olson. "Prisons of Stone and Mind: Henry James's The Princess Casamassima and In the Cage." Stones of Law - Bricks of Shame: Narrating Imprisonment in the Victorian Age. Ed. Jan Alber and Frank Lauterbach. Toronto: U Toronto Press.

Greta Olson. Entry on Alice Sebold's Susie from The Lovely Bones for Student's Companion to American Literary Characters. Columbia, SC: Facts on File.

Greta Olson, ed. Proceedings Volume: Current Trends in Narratology, Freiburg June 14-16 2007.

Greta Olson. "Class and Race Bias in the Anti-Cruelty Discourse of the Early Eighteenth-Century." Proceedings of the Anglistentag 2007 (University of Münster).

Greta Olson. "Rituals of Animalistic Degradation: J.M. Coetzee on Torture at Abu Ghraib." (under review)

Greta Olson. "Richard III's Animalistic Criminal Body." Reprint in: Shakespearean Criticism.

Reviews

Greta Olson. German and American Higher Education: Educational Philosophies and Political Systems, Ed. Helmbrecht Breinig, Jürgen Gebhardt and Berndt, Ostendorf, Münster: LIT, 2001, für Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2003-1/2): 102-104.

Greta Olson. Neue Ansätze in der Erzähltheorie, Hg. Ansgar Nünning & Vera Nünning. Handbuch 4, WVT-Handbücher zum Literatur-wissenschaftlichen Studium. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002, Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 54, No. 4 (2004): 482-484.

Greta Olson. "'Cathedralesque' Courthouses and 'Forensic' Narratives: The Intermingling of Institutional Forms of Power with Narrative Paradigms in the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel." (Review of: Jonathan H. Grossman: The Art of Alibi. English Law Courts and the Novel. Baltimore, MD / London: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2002.)
In: IASLonline [02.11.2004]

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