On Un-Doing Law

Greta Olson is Professor of English and American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen, general editor of the European Journal of English Studies, and co-founder of the “European Network for Law and Literature Research.” She works and wishes to facilitate projects on cultural approaches to law, the politics of narrative, critical media and American studies, and feminism and sexuality studies. Recent publications include “Law’s Pluralities: Arguments for Cultural Approaches to Law,” German Law Journal (with Franz Reimer 2017), and “The Politics of Form,” European Journal of the Study of English (with Sarah Copland 2016).

Sonja Schillings is a researcher in American Studies at the International Graduate Centre at the Study of Culture (JLU Giessen). Her work focuses on law and literature as well as literature and philosophy. She currently works on human dignity and U.S. American literature after the Second World War. Her first book, Enemies of all Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence (2017) was published with the University Press of New England. She has published on American popular literature, race and space, piracy, and interdisciplinary research methods.