Publications

Books and Editions

  • Olson, Greta (forthcoming) ‘Criminal Beasts’ and the Rise of Positivist Criminology—From Shakespeare to Dickens (faculty dissertation).
  • 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.
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Essays

  • Greta Olson. "De-Americanizing Law-and-Literature Narratives: Opening up the Story." Law & Literature 22. No. 1. 2010, 338-364.
  • Greta Olson. "Metaphors and Cultural Transference: Mediating Cognitivist and Culturalist Approaches,” Metaphors: Shaping Culture and Theory. / REAL - The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Ed. Sibylle Baumbach, Herbert Grabes and Ansgar Nünning. Vol. 25. Tübingen: Narr, 2009: 17-31.
  • 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 und Frank Lauterbach. Toronto: U Toronto, 2009. 199-232. (Click here or here to buy the book.)
  • Olson, Greta. Entry on “Susie Salmon from Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones.” Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters, Volume IV. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. New York: Facts on File / Manly, 2008. 1163-1164.
  • Greta Olson. "Class and Race Bias in the Anti-Cruelty Discourse of the Early Eighteenth-Century.” Anglistentag 2007 Münster. Ed. Klaus Stierstorfer. Trier: WVT, 2008. 49-58.
  • 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 Any Means? On the Torture Debate in Germany and the United States). Bausteine zu einer Ethik des Strafens. Philosophische, juristische und literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Ed. Hans-Helmut Gander, Monika Fludernik, and Hans-Jörg Albrecht. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 2008. 177-210.
  • 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 and Law and Literature, ed. Patrick Hanafin, Adam Gearey and 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. 11. 1 (April 2007): 1-15. (Click here for more information and to buy this issue of ejes.)
  • Greta Olson. "Reading and Writing Academically as a Mother." "Elternschaft." Freiburger Frauen-Studien. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauenforschung 18, Sonderausgabe zum Thema Elternschaft. (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. (Click here to view article abstract.)
  • 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 and 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 and H. Tschachler. Münster: LIT, 2003. 111-128.
  • Greta Olson. "Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators." Narrative 11. 1 (January 2003): 93-109. (Click here to view an excerpt.)
  • 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.
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Forthcoming

  • Greta Olson, ed. Current Trends in Narratology. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter.
  • Greta Olson and Monika Fludernik. “Assessing Current Trends in Narratology.” Current Trends in Narratology. Ed. Greta Olson. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter.
  • Greta Olson. “Issues in American Punitivity.” Pólemos 2/2010.
  • Greta Olson. “Reading 9/11.” New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies: Theory into Practice. Ed. Greta Olson and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT.
  • Greta Olson. “European Dialogues Concerning Law, Death, the Linguistic and the Literary.” (Review essay on Figures of Law: Studies in the Interference of Law and Literature. Tübingen: Francke, 2007) for IASLonline.
  • Greta Olson, ed. 9/11. Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch (2011).
  • Greta Olson. “9/11: Teaching a Historical Event through Empathy and Media Literacy.” 9/11. Ed. Greta Olson. Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch (2011).
  • Greta Olson and Nünning, Ansgar, eds. New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies: Theory into Practice. WVT: Trier.
  • 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. "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.
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Reviews

  • Greta Olson. Review of Isabelle Meuret, Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007, for Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 246 (2. Halbjahresband 2009): 439-440.
  • Greta Olson. "Das Honorieren der Lust, Mutter zu sein." (Review of Daphne de Marneffe, Die Lust, Mutter zu sein. Liebe, Kinder, Glück. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Juliane Gräbener-Müller. Erstveröffentlichung in den Vereinigten Staaten (2007 [2004]), München/ Zürich: Piper. Freiburger GeschlechterStudien 22. Special Issue on Kindheit, Jugend und Sozialisation. Freiburg: Jos Fritz, 2008. 414-417. (click here to read the review)
  • 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". Ed. Ansgar Nünning & Vera Nünning. Handbuch 4, WVT-Handbücher zum Literatur-wissenschaftlichen Studium. Trier: WVT, 2002. Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 54. 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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