Institute of English Studies
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
At the interface of cultural studies and education, the Institute contributes to a number of different BA, MA and M.Ed. degree courses, e.g. Bachelor Lehren und Lernen, Master of Education, Leuphana Bachelor (Major Cultural Studies).
The Institute comprises the fields of English Linguistics, English Literature, Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Area Studies & Language Skills.
Topics
The Institute of English Studies' research reflects the diversity of English and Englishes, English literature and literatures, English culture and cultures, and the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL).
We focus on the heterogeneous and hybrid nature of these research areas and the application of our findings in various contexts. Current projects reflect this inter- and transdisciplinary approach. Research in the field of TEFL deals with personal and affective factors of the learner personality and with the intercultural structure of acquisition and communication situations. Competence orientation and assessment are important aspects of our research.
- Guest lectures
Von Irisch und Englisch: Warum die Sprache der Iren vom Aussterben bedroht war und wie sie dann aber doch gerettet wurde (Universität Bonn, invited talk)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
02.05.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Vortrag: Fun and Military Games: The War in German Picture Books
Emer O'Sullivan (Oral presentation)
16.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Vortrag: Irische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: eine ungewöhnliche Entwicklung
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
23.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Vortrag: Kinder- und Jugendliteratur als Forschungsgegenstand
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.05.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Vortrag: Komik in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
22.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Was bringen die digitalen Medien für den Lerngewinn im (Englisch)Unterricht?
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
29.03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Was ist (für wen) ein internationaler Klassiker der Kinderliteratur?
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.01.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
"We all can do it": Localising public information messages within Europe. Insights from a cross-cultural genre analysis
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
03.11.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Wenn aus der Mad Tea Party ein deutsches Kaffeekränzchen wird. Zielkulturelle Adaptionen in Übersetzungen von Kinderliteratur als Mittel zur Bewusstmachung interkulturellen Transfers in der Lehrerbildung.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.10.1998Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
What is corpus linguistics?
Irina Pandarova (Speaker)
05.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
When the going gets tough, the tough go green: Exploring Sustainability in an Intercultural Blended-Learning Project
Joannis Kaliampos (Lecturer) & Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
01.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
'When the going gets tough, the tough go green': Explorng Sustainability in an Intercultural Blended-Learning Project
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
28.01.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
"WILL and SHALL: The role of modality in doing things with words across the Englishes" (Universität Paderborn, invited talk)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
13.04.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
09.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
"Will I call the doctor?" Offers across regional varieties of English (Universität Hannover, invited talk)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
10.11.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
'Will I help you?': Offers in Irish English and English English (Universität Potsdam, invited talk)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
29.10.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
“Will I look have I something?” Pragmatic variation across the Englishes
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
28.06.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Wird mein lesbischer Headcanon jemals Canon werden? – Femslash vs. Mainstream
Gesa Woltjen (Lecturer)
05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Writing the city. Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
07.01.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
'Your're welcome', 'alright', 'okay': Analysing pragmatic variation across the Englishes (Universität Bielefeld, invited talk)
Anne Barron (Oral presentation)
19.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Zwischen kultureller Aneignung und 'cancel culture': Die Winnetou-Debatte
Maria Moss (Speaker)
14.02.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Zwischen Zuckerguss und simulierten Welten - Digitales Fremdsprachenlernen in Zeiten von Gamification, Serious Games und Commercial Off-The-Shelf Games
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
13.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- External workshops, courses, seminars
23rd Warwick International Conference in Applied Linguistics
Solvejg Wolfers-Pommerenke (Speaker)
28.06.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
4. interuniversitärer Forschungsworkshop für Promovierende im Bereich Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
31.08.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Einsatz von Videos in der Lehrerbildung
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
16.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
,,English Day'' an der Oberschule Jesteburg - 2020
Andreas Hübner (Organiser) & Nora Benitt (Organiser)
24.01.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
,,English Day'' an der Oberschule Jesteburg - 2020
Andreas Hübner (Organiser)
10.01.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Fernkurs Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - STUBE 2002/2003
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
01.10.2002 → 01.06.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
GAL Research School for Methods in Empirical Pragmatics - MeEP 2016
Anne Barron (Speaker)
12.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Gemeinsames Forschungskolloquium (DoktorandInnen, HabilitandInnen)
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant), Gabriele von Glasenapp (Organiser), Ute Dettmar (Participant), Michael Staiger (Participant) & Ingrid Tomkowiak (Participant)
25.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Going Green!
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Going Green Teacher Seminar Nürnberg 2014
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
07.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Maple Leaf & Stars and Stripes
Maria Moss (Organiser) & Sabrina Völz (Organiser)
01.11.2021 → 01.02.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Maple Leaf & Stars and Stripes
Maria Moss (Organiser) & Sabrina Völz (Organiser)
04.11.2022 → 02.02.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Masterclass mit DoktorandInnen am Centre for Børnelitteratur Copenhagen
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
24.03.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Masterclass mit StudentInnen am Norsk Barnebokinstitutt Oslo - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Masterclass of the Feminist Research Group 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
07.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Masterclass Translation Studies für Promovierende an belgischen Universitäten
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
21.03.2024 → 23.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Master Class Under Guidance of Prof. Anne Burns
Nora Benitt (Organiser)
2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
04.12.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present 2011
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
19.03.2011 → 21.03.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Virtual Teacher Seminar: Teach about the U.S. 2021
Joannis Kaliampos (Participant)
18.03.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
- trade fairs and exhibitions
Ausstellung „William Butler Yeats - Leben und Werk“ 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
19.01.2012 → 02.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Hannover Messe 2016
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
04.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
- Conferences
10. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft - IVG 2000
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
10.09.2000 → 16.09.2000Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
11. Symposion Deutschdidaktik 1996
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.09.1996 → 19.09.1996Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
11th International Pragmatics Conference - IPrA2009
Anne Barron (Speaker)
12.07.2009 → 17.07.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer - IDT2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.07.2001 → 04.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
03.06.1999 → 05.06.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - IRSCL1995
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.08.1995 → 05.08.1995Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
14th EUROSLA Conference - 2004
Anne Barron (Speaker)
08.09.2004 → 11.09.2100Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
15. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - IRSCL2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.08.2001 → 24.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics- AILA 2008
Anne Barron (Speaker)
24.08.2008 → 29.08.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
17 Sociolinguistics Symposium - 2008
Anne Barron (Organiser)
03.04.2008 → 05.04.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
17th Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature - IRSCL 2005
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.09.2005 → 17.09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
19. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - DGFF 2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.10.2001 → 06.10.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
19. Schwerter Kinder- und Jugendbuchtagung 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.10.1992 → 01.11.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1. All-Ireland Symposium of The Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literatur-ISSCL208
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
22.11.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die interdisziplinäre Erforschung und Förderung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht - AIDEFF 2014
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
25.09.2014 → 27.09.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
20. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft - DGfS1998
Anne Barron (Speaker)
03.03.1998 → 06.03.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
23. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - 2009
Torben Schmidt (Moderator)
30.09.2009 → 03.10.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
23. World Congress of the International Board on Books for Young People - IBBY 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
07.09.1992 → 12.09.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
25. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - DGFF 2013
Torben Schmidt (Moderator)
25.09.2013 → 28.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
25th Anniversary Conference of the Centre for Irish-German Studies - 2022
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
22.09.2022 → 23.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
26. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2013
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
09.05.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
26. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - 2015
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
03.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
26. Kongress für Fremdsprachenforschung der DGFF - 2015
Nora Benitt (Speaker)
02.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
26th Annual Research Symposium of the Royal Irish Academy's National Committee for Modern Language Studies - 1999
Anne Barron (Speaker)
12.11.1999 → 13.11.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
28. Arbeitstagung des Arbeitskreises der Sprachenzentren, Sprachlehrinstitute und Fremdspracheninstitute e.V. - AKS 2014
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
02.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
28. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - 2015
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.06.2015 → 06.06.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
29. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2016
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.05.2016 → 28.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2. Deutsch-Britisches Jugendbuch-Forum 1991
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.04.1991 → 14.04.1991Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2nd Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Group International Conference - 2004
Anne Barron (Speaker)
25.06.2004 → 26.06.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die interdisziplinäre Erforschung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (AIDEFF) 2016
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
22.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
30. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder-und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2017
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.05.2017 → 27.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
30. Jahrestagung, Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik - GAL 1999
Anne Barron (Speaker)
30.09.1999 → 02.10.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
30. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Freiburg im Breisgau
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
29.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
31. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik - GAL 2000
Anne Barron (Speaker)
28.09.2000 → 30.09.2000Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
33rd International IBBY Congress 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
24.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
34. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2022
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
26.05.2022 → 28.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
34th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English - ICAME 2013
Irina Pandarova (Speaker)
22.05.2013 → 26.05.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1990
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
27.03.1990 → 30.03.1990Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL) e.V.
Carolyn Blume (presenter)
09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3. Kongress des Gesamtverbandes Moderne Fremdsprachen - 2010
Torben Schmidt (Moderator)
16.09.2010 → 18.09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3rd Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads III - 2013
Emily Black (Speaker)
27.06.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3rd EFACIS Roundtable Discussion - IrEN 2021
Anne Barron (Moderator) & Carolina P. Amador-Moreno (Moderator)
14.10.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3rd World Children's Literature Convention
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
10.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
43. Tagung des Institus für Jugendliteratur der Universität Wien 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
16.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4. internationaler Kongress über Sprachpartikeln 1987
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.08.1987 → 08.08.1987Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1991
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.05.1991 → 07.05.1991Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4th European Conference of Health Promoting Schools - 2013
Torben Schmidt (presenter)
06.10.2013 → 09.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
52. Jahrestagung der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Englisch an Gesamtschulen - BAG 2014
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
19.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
5. Internationaler Kongress der Spanischen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - ANIJL 2007
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
21.11.2007 → 24.11.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
5th Symposium European Cultures In Business And Corporate Communication - EUKO 2005
Anne Barron (Speaker)
18.10.2005 → 20.10.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
62nd Meeting of the Conference of University Teachers of German in Britain and Ireland - CUTG1999
Anne Barron (Speaker)
13.09.1999 → 15.09.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
63. Jahreskonferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
Sabrina Völz (Participant) & Maria Moss (Participant)
19.05.2016 → 22.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
66th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies 2018
Sabrina Völz (Speaker)
13.06.2019 → 15.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
68. Jahrestagung der Vertrauensdozentinnen und Vertrauensdozenten der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
26.01.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
68. Jahrestagung der Vertrauensdozentinnen und Vertrauensdozenten der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.01.2018 → 28.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
6. internationale Konferenz der British Comparative Literature Association 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.07.1992 → 16.07.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research