Prof. Dr. Greta Olson
Greta Olson is Principal Investigator of the MeDiMi project “Dehumanizing, Victimizing, or Universalizing? How Images of Migration Interact with Human Rights Discourse”, which examines affective responses to images of migration in the context of human rights. Greta is a Professor of English and American Literature and Cultural Studies and is Director of the Center for Diversity, Media, and Law (DiML) at Justus Liebig University of Giessen. She was a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” at the University of Bonn (2014, 2016). With Jeanne Gaakeer, she is the founder of the European Network for Law and Literature. Her interdisciplinary research interests include Law and Literature, cultural-legal studies, affect theory, narratology, feminist and sexuality studies, cultural studies, and visual politics. Greta grew up in the United States and moved to Germany in 1986. After academic stopovers in Freiburg, Innsbruck, Basel, and Bonn, she began teaching literary, cultural, media, legal and sexuality studies at the University of Giessen in 2008.
