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
Teaching Listening Comprehension in the EFL Classroom: Processes, Materials, Tasks and Tests
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
11.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Teaching Listening in the EFL Classroom
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
18.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Teaching Teens: Herausforderungen & Möglichkeiten
Nora Benitt (Lecturer)
17.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
Teaching the U.S. Elections in the EFL Classroom. The U.S. Embassy School Election Project
Joannis Kaliampos (Lecturer)
03.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Teaching the U.S. Elections in the EFL Classroom. The U.S. Embassy School Election Project
Joannis Kaliampos (Lecturer)
03.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Teaching the U.S. Elections in the EFL Classroom. The U.S. Embassy School Election Project
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
03.03.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Teaching the U.S. Elections in the EFL Classroom. The U.S. Embassy School Election Project
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
07.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Teaching the U.S. Elections in the EFL Classroom. The U.S. Embassy School Election project 2016
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Teaching the U.S. Elections in the EFL Classroom - The U.S. Embassy School Election Project 2016
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
03.03.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Team cohesion & sports teams: How team members negotiate cohesion through humour
Solvejg Wolfers (Speaker)
18.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Tech and TEFL - Learning and Teaching English in the Digital Age
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
19.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Thanatos und Eros: Die Darstellung sterbender Kinder in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.02.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Thanatos und Eros: Die Darstellung sterbender Kinder in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.06.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Borderland: Chicana/o Literature in the 20th Century
Maria Moss (Oral presentation)
17.05.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.02.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The place of Applied Linguistics in a foreign language department (University of Cork, invited talk)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
02.07.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Pollard Lecture 2019: Reprints, piracies, hibernicisations: Children’s books and Dublin booksellers in the late 18th century
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
14.02.2019Activity: 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
The representation of (other) Europeans in European picturebooks
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
03.12.2013Activity: 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
“The Shape of Mimesis: Terror in American Literature”
Maria Moss (Lecturer)
19.04.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The US Presidential Election 2012
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
27.02.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The US Presidential Election 2012
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
28.02.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The US Presidential Election 2012
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
29.02.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The US Presidential Election 2012
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
01.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The US Presidential Election 2012
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
02.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Voice of the Translator. Narratology and Translation Studies (Uppsala University, Sweden - online)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
16.04.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Tiere und wir: Die Mensch-Tier Studien als ethische Herausforderung
Maria Moss (Speaker)
03.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
To 'Siez' or to 'Duz?': Use and development of pronominal address forms in German in a study abroad context (Universität Potsdam, invited talk)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
29.10.2003Activity: 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
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
Towards an International Keywords for Children's Literature (Roundtable): Presenters: Lissa Paul, Philip Nel, Nina Alonso, Nina Christensen, Francesca Orestano and Emer O’Sullivan
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
13.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
Transformation durch Dialog der Disziplinen, Akteur*innen und Institutionen – Vom Bezugsdisziplinen-Ansatz der Englischdidaktik zu transdisziplinären Communities für Innovation in Forschung, Lehre und Unterrichtspraxis
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
03.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Translating for children : what, for whom, how, and why.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
22.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Transportgewinne – Transportverluste. Zur Übersetzbarkeit des Komischen.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.06.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Unlikely Friendships: Communication across Species Lines
Maria Moss (Speaker)
30.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Unlikely Friendships: Playful Communication across Species Lines
Maria Moss (Speaker)
30.10.2018Activity: 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
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
Videographiebasierte Forschungsmethoden
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
15.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Village of the damned nation – Michael Haneke’s 'The White Ribbon.'
Yasmin Lehmann (Speaker)
08.08.2015 → 12.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Violence and First Nations: Canadian Studies - Global Issues in Focus
Maria Moss (Speaker)
03.02.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
"Vom Über-setzen"
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
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
- Consultancy
Begehung zur Programmevaluation des Studiengangs English-Speaking Cultures
Anne Barron (Consultant)
23.08.2018Activity: Consultancy
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media (SIKJM )
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2012 → …Activity: Consultancy
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
Mitglied des Advisory Boards der Fachzeitschrift International Research in Children’s Literature (IRCL)
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2008 → 2021Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied im Publications Advisory Board der Children's Literature Association (USA)
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2011 → 2014Activity: Consultancy
Sitzung des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des SIKJM
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
07.02.2019Activity: Consultancy
- Academic councils, panels and committees
Advisory Board for Keywords in Children's Literature (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2016 → 2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Goethe-Institut München (External organisation)
Torben Schmidt (Member)
2018 → 2023Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2005Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1999Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1994Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1991 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication - INPRA 2016 (Event)
Anne Barron (Member)
15.11.2010 → 17.11.2010Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Internationale Jugendbibliothek (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2012 → 2013Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Internationale Jugendbibliothek (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2014 → 2015Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Internationale Jugendbibliothek (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2016 → 2017Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2016 → …Activity: 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
Literaturbüro Lüneburg e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Coordinator)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Education
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) (External organisation)
Anne Barron (Member)
2021 → 2023Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Stiftungsrat (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
11.2018 → 11.2023Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
University of Erfurt (External organisation)
Anne Barron (Member)
15.04.2021 → 31.12.2022Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
University of North Carolina at Charlotte (External organisation)
Anne Barron (Member)
19.10.2012 → 21.10.2012Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
University of Santiago de Compostela (External organisation)
Anne Barron (Member)
05.09.2011 → 09.09.2011Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
University of Stellenbosch (External organisation)
Anne Barron (Member)
14.01.2008 → 16.01.2008Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
- Academic networks or partnerships
Baptist University Hong Kong (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Coordinator)
2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
Jahrestreffen "Norddeutsches Netzwerk Nordamerikastudien" (Event)
Maria Moss (Member)
29.11.2018 → 30.11.2018Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
Jahrestreffen "Norddeutsches Netzwerk Nordamerikastudien" (Event)
Sabrina Völz (Member)
29.11.2018 → 30.11.2018Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
The English Academy (External organisation)
Torben Schmidt (Member)
2008 → 2019Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer