Greta Olson is Professor of English and American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen. She is a general editor of the European Journal of English Studies (EJES), and, with Jeanne Gaakeer, the co-founder of the European Network for Law and Literature. Professor Olson aims to facilitate work on the nexus between political and artistic practice and academic analysis. She is involved in a project on "Beyond the Male Gaze: Towards Pluralistic Media Practices" with the filmmaker Lisa Friederich, and in one on the politics of images of migration.