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.
- 2016
Investigating learner pragmatics at the discourse level: Challenges, complexities and insights
Emily Black (Lecturer)
09.05.2016 → 10.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
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
Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editor)
27.05.2016 → 12.2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
International Research in Children's Literature (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
31.05.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Workshop Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung - 2016
Carolyn Blume (presenter)
06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Amish Conference 2016 - Continuity and Change
Sabrina Völz (Speaker)
09.06.2016 → 11.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication - INPRA 2016
Emily Black (Speaker)
10.06.2016 → 12.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
J.M. Coetzee's "The Lives of Animals"
Maria Moss (Speaker)
18.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strange Signs: Invented Languages from Alienation to Zany
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
22.07.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Netzwerk Inklusiver Englischunterricht - 2016
Carolyn Blume (presenter)
08.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Children's Literature Association Quarterly (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
03.08.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › 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
Approaching learning technologies - the case of telecollaboration and learner corpora (GAL Research School for Methods in Empirical Pragmatics - MeEP 2016, Bonn)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
12.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
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
Ernest J. Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying
Sabrina Völz (Speaker)
17.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
Ninth Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies
Sabrina Völz (Speaker)
30.09.2016 → 01.10.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Veranstaltungsreihe "Brown Bag Lectures" am Institute of English Studies
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
10.2016 → 03.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Learning How to Request Using Textbooks: A Pragmalinguistic, Sociopragmatic and Cross-cultural Analysis (Ireland International Conference on Education - IICE 2016, Dublin)
Anne Barron (Speaker)
24.10.2016 → 27.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ireland International Conference on Education - IICE 2016
Anne Barron (Speaker)
26.10.2016 → 29.10.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Going Green!
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
International conference ICT for Language Learning - ICT 2016
Carolyn Blume (presenter)
11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
"Erst wenn der letzte Baum gefällt ist": Indianer und Geld
Maria Moss (Lecturer)
01.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Alice: Metamorphosen einer weltliterarischen Figur
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
02.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
University of Flensburg (External organisation)
Sabrina Völz (Member)
03.11.2016 → 04.11.2016Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
It's a nice day for a 'Red Wedding' - HBO's 'Game of Thrones': viewing habits and storytelling in the age of cultural convergence
Yasmin Lehmann (Lecturer)
06.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
G is for German. Constructions of Nationality and Ethnicity in Picturebooks
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
30.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2017
Applied Linguistics Research Journal (Journal)
Anne Barron (Editorial Board)
2017 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Applied Pragmatics (Journal)
Anne Barron (Editor)
2017 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Language Related Research (Journal)
Anne Barron (Editorial Board)
2017 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Lousiana Historical Association (LHA) (External organisation)
Andreas Hübner (Member)
2017 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Praesens Verlag (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editorial Board)
2017 → 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Videobasierte Lernbausteine zum Umgang mit Heterogenität und Inklusion im Pilotfach Englisch im Rahmen der Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung Projekt “Theorie-Praxis-Verzahnung im ZZL-Netzwerk"
Carolyn Blume (Speaker)
01.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
International Research in Children's Literature (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
03.2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Media Literacy in Foreign Language Education
Carolyn Blume (presenter)
03.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Towards a fully-automated adaptive e-learning environment: A predictive model for difficulty generating factors in gap-filling activities that target English tense-aspect-mood
Torben Schmidt (Oral presentation)
13.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Towards a fully-automated adaptive e-learning environment: A predictive model for difficulty generating factors in gap-filling activities that target English tense-aspect-mood
Roger Dale Jones (Oral presentation)
13.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Towards a fully-automated adaptive e-learning environment: A predictive model for difficulty generating factors in gap-filling activities that target English tense-aspect-mood
Irina Pandarova (Oral presentation)
13.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Seventh International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching 2017
Carolyn Blume (presenter)
04.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Veranstaltungsreihe "Brown Bag Lectures" am Institute of English Studies
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
04.2017 → 09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
’Granny do you want tea?’: Investigating offers across the Englishes (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
26.04.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium Annual Conference 2017
Carolyn Blume (presenter)
05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Programm-Workshop "Inklusion und Heterogenität als Thema der Lehrer_innenbildung" der QOLB
Milena Peperkorn (Speaker), Bianka Troll (Speaker), Michael Besser (Speaker), Katharina Müller (Speaker), Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Carolyn Blume (Speaker)
05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Michael Rosens Where Broccoli Comes From: Vorlesung in der Reihe "10 Minuten Lyrik"
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
17.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
International Association for Language Learning Technology Conference 2017
Carolyn Blume (presenter)
06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
The Puppetry of the Past: Performing the 1910s in contemporary British and German culture
Yasmin Lehmann (Lecturer)
14.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Videographiebasierte Forschungsmethoden
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
15.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Crossing the Line 2017
Sabrina Völz (Speaker)
22.06.2017 → 25.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Racial Humour and Identity Construction in a German U-19 football team (20th Warwick International Conference in Applied Linguistics, Coventry)
Solvejg Wolfers (Speaker)
27.06.2017 → 29.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Schritte in Richtung einer vollautomatisierten, adaptiven E-Learning-Umgebung-Entwicklung eines Vorhersagemodels schierigkeitsgenerierender Einflussfaktoren bei Lückentext-Übungen im Bereich Tense-Aspect-Mood
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
14.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Developing pragmatic competence in a study abroad context (International Pragmatics Conference - IPrA 2017: Pragmatics in the real world, Belfast)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
16.07.2017 → 21.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
International Pragmatics Conference - IPrA 2017
Anne Barron (Organiser)
16.07.2017 → 21.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
“Just because he's black”. Racial Humour and Identity Construction in a German U-19 football team
Solvejg Wolfers (Speaker)
16.07.2017 → 21.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Digital emigrants: Attitudes, intentions, and experiences of pre-service English foreign language teachers regarding digital game-based language learning
Carolyn Blume (Speaker)
09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Gamification in ELT: Meeting the needs of all learners
Carolyn Blume (Speaker)
09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Hamburger Fremdsprachentage
Carolyn Blume (presenter)
09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung 2017
Carolyn Blume (Moderator)
09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Literary Encounters with English Gentlemen, Frivolous Frenchmen and Drunken Germans (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)
Ulrike Kristina Köhler (Oral presentation)
09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Unlikely Friendships: Prey and Predator Reconsidered
Maria Moss (Speaker)
06.09.2017 → 09.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
82. Tagung der Sektion "Empirische Bildungsforschung" - AEPF 2017
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
25.09.2017 → 27.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
82. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung - AEPF 2017
Sabrina Kulin (Speaker), Timo Ehmke (Speaker), Dominik Leiß (Speaker) & Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
27.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Teaching the machine how to assess grammar skills. Modelling verb-tense exercise characteristics as a basis for an adaptive E-learning system
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer), Irina Pandarova (Lecturer) & Roger Dale Jones (Lecturer)
29.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Veranstaltungsreihe "Brown Bag Lectures" am Institute of English Studies
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
10.2017 → 03.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Die Videoplattform "Multiview" als Lerngelegenheit für Studierende zum Umgang mit Heterogenität und Inklusion - Unterrichtssituationen aus 11 Perspektiven
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer) & Carolyn Blume (Lecturer)
12.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Transdisziplinäre Entwicklungsteams in der Lehrer_innenbildung - Verbindung von Akteuren aus dem Kontext schulischer und hochschulischer Bedingungen
Sabrina Kulin (Speaker), Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Robin Pascal Straub (Speaker)
12.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Transdisziplinäre Entwicklungsteams in der LehrerInnenbildung - Verbindung von Akteuren aus dem Kontext (schul-)pädagogischer und hochschulischer Bedingungen
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
12.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Illustration as intersemiotic translation: Visualising nonsense:
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
19.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Roald Dahl: Cinderella
Ulrike Kristina Köhler (Lecturer)
01.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Banter, Racism & Acculturation: Intercultural dynamics in team sports
Solvejg Wolfers (Speaker) & Daniel Clayton (Speaker)
16.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ex-Amish Memoir: An Emerging Genre?
Sabrina Völz (Speaker)
21.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Dealing with racial stereotypes in German professional and elite football. What discourse analysis can contribute
Solvejg Wolfers (Speaker)
23.11.2017 → 24.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kompetente Lehrkräfte vs. intelligente Software - Wie kann fremdsprachliches Üben mit digitalen Medien optimiert werden?
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
05.12.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Language Education Across Borders 2017
Sabrina Völz (Speaker)
07.12.2017 → 10.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2018
American Studies Journal (Journal)
Maria Moss (Editor)
2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Das inklusive Klassenzimmer - 2018
Simone Abels (Organiser), Nora Benitt (Organiser), Michael Besser (Organiser), Steffen Greve (Organiser), Torben Schmidt (Organiser) & Jessica Süßenbach (Organiser)
2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2018 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Goethe-Institut München (External organisation)
Torben Schmidt (Member)
2018 → 2023Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2018 → 2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2018 → 2021Activity: Consultancy
Member of the scientific committee of ANILIJ 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2018 → 2019Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied der Jury für den James Krüss Preis für internationale Kinder- und Jugendliteratur 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2018 → 2019Activity: Consultancy
Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands e.V. (External organisation)
Andreas Hübner (Member)
2018 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Englisches und Romanisches Seminar der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Doktorandenkolloquium der Fremdsprachendidaktik
Carolyn Blume (Oral presentation), Bianca Roters (Oral presentation) & Torben Schmidt (Oral presentation)
01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Get Involved! Going Green – Education for Sustainability in the EFL and STEM/MINT Classroom
Joannis Kaliampos (Lecturer)
01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Going Green – Education for Sustainability in the EFL and STEM/MINT Classroom.
Joannis Kaliampos (Lecturer)
01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Digital Games Lab Lecture Series - 2018
Carolyn Blume (presenter)
03.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Mobile Language Learning und Gamification – Good and Bad Recipes for Chocolate Coated Broccoli
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
15.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
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
CHANcen GEstalten – Inklusionsorientierung in der Lehrerbildung als Impuls für Entwicklungsprozesse in Hochschulen 2018
Carolyn Blume (Speaker)
02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
QUA-LiS NRW. Modellvorhaben für die Entwicklung eines Blended-Learning-Formates
Carolyn Blume (presenter)
02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kompetente Lehrkräfte vs. Intelligente Software — Wie kann fremdsprachliches Üben mit digitalen Medien optimiert werden?
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
21.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Illustration as intersemiotic translation: visualising nonsense
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
24.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strange people and places: the representation of other nations in children’s literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
26.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The representation of other nations in picturebooks for children
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strange places and people in children’s literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
27.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strange people and places: the representation of other nations in children’s literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
28.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research