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.
- Academic Consultant
Mitglied im Editorial Review Board der Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2009 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Mitglied im Kuratorium des 'internationalen literaturfestivals berlin' (ilf)
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
1999 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
- Peer review of project proposals
„Bildungsinnovation braucht Bildungsforschung“ -
Torben Schmidt (Reviewer)
01.02.2023 → 01.06.2023Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
Gutachten für ein DFG-Forschungsprojekt
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
08.2020Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
Gutachtertätigkeit
Maria Moss (Reviewer)
04.2019 → 04.2022Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Transfer
Gutachtertätigkeit für das European Science Foundation (ESF)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2005Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
- Peer review of publicationen
18th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning - 2010 (Event)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
5th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (Event)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
03.2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
8th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics & Communication - INPRA 2018 (Event)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Academia Press (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
01.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
APPLIED LINGUISTICS (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Barnboken (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
04.2009Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › 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
Children's Literature Association Quarterly (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
30.04.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE Journal) (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2011 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE Journal) (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
02.2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE Journal) (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
02.2014Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE Journal) (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
03.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE Journal) (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editorial Board)
08.2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Contrastive Pragmatics: A Cross-Disciplinary Journal (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2021 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Contrastive Pragmatics: A Cross-Disciplinary Journal (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
17.11.2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
English World-Wide (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
19.01.2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Ikala (Journal)
Anne Barron (Editorial Board)
01.05.2008 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Intercultural Pragmatics (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication - INPRA 2016 (Event)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
International Journal of Society, Culture and Language (Journal)
Anne Barron (Editorial Board)
2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › 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
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
International Research in Children's Literature (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
06.2010Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
International Research in Children's Literature (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
12.2007 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
International Research in Children's Literature (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editorial Board)
15.10.2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
10.2010Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
John Benjamins Publishing Company (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2011Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
John Benjamins Publishing Company (Publisher)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
John Benjamins Publishing Company (Publisher)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Journal of Pragmatics (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Journal of Pragmatics (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
17.11.2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Language Learning - a journal of research in language studies (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Language Sciences (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Language Teaching (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Libri & Liberi: Journal of Research on Children's Literature and Culture (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
02.2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Meta (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
09.2011Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Modern Language Journal: devoted to research and discussion about the learning and teaching of foreign and second languages (Journal)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
National Foreign Language Resource Center (Publisher)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2006 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
04.01.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
07.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Praesens Verlag (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editorial Board)
2017 → 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Purdue University Press (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2011Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editorial Board)
2004Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
26.05.2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2010Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2008Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2004Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2003 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Swets & Zeitglinger (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2003Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Walter de Gruyter GmbH (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
06.2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Walter de Gruyter GmbH (Publisher)
Anne Barron (Reviewer)
2012 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- Conference Presentations
24th Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature
Ulrike Kristina Köhler (Speaker)
15.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
31. Internationales LAUD Symposium
Anne Barron (Speaker)
27.03.2006 → 30.03.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
7th International Conference ICT for Language Learning
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
8. internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrervereinigung
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.08.1986 → 08.08.1986Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Acquiring 'different strokes': A longitudinal study of the development of L2 pragmatic competence (62. Meeting of the Conference of University Teachers of German in Britain and Ireland (CUTG), Keele, GB)
Anne Barron (Speaker)
13.09.1999 → 15.09.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Addressing diversity through learner agency in technology-enhanced language learning environments
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
ALP-Jahrestagung (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Linguistische Pragmatik) 2021
Solvejg Wolfers (Speaker)
23.02.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‘Alsatian roots, Irish leaves. Tomi Ungerer, a plurilingual and pluricultural author’
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
14.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ambivalent transfer: Translated children's and youth literature and the postulated enrichment through the encounter with foreign cultures
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“...AND THEN THE STUDENTS WÄRE VERY FETT”: TASK PERFORMANCE AND ‘(NOT)-DOING-BEINGAN-EXPERT’ IN A TBLL SETTING
Torben Schmidt (Speaker), Carolyn Blume (Speaker) & Peter Schildhauer (Speaker)
05.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“Are you the Black who can’t dance?” – Identity construction and racial humour in German professional and elite football
Solvejg Wolfers (Speaker)
07.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
"At last - something pleasing to the eye again!". Being a female researcher in a male and masculine world.
Solvejg Wolfers-Pommerenke (Speaker)
26.01.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
"At last - something pleasing to the eye!" - Experiences of a female researcher looking into male professional and elite football
Solvejg Wolfers (Speaker)
20.06.2018 → 22.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
"A woman doesn't have to pay": Metapragmatic insights into gendered identity construction and payment negotiations in a first date setting.
Anne Barron (Speaker) & Solvejg Wolfers-Pommerenke (Speaker)
21.06.2022 → 23.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Books for Children. Transnational encounters 1750-1850
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bridging the Curricular Divide. Integrating sustainability and EFL instruction in a project (week) context for secondary school learners of English and Science
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
'... but like, you see, I'm the same now as well': A longitudinal study of the development of L2 discourse competence (31. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), Bremen)
Anne Barron (Speaker)
28.09.2000 → 30.09.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
'Can you take the other bed, please?': A pragmatic perspective on request representation in EFL textbooks (22. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der DGFF, Gießen)
Anne Barron (Speaker)
03.10.2007 → 06.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Challenging the status quo - the positioning of female researchers in the footballing world
Solvejg Wolfers (Keynote Speaker)
29.11.2018 → 30.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
'Click Here to Shop Now!' A micro-linguistic analysis of medical spam mails (5. Interdisziplinäres Symposium Europäische Kulturen in der Wirtschaftskommunikation - EUKO 2005, Luzern)
Anne Barron (Speaker)
18.10.2005 → 20.12.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Cognitive predictors of accurate syntax/semantics mapping in the early stages of adult L2 learning
Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)
02.09.2019 → 03.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Connecting sustainability and culture: Building competencies through virtual exchange
Jodie Birdman (Coauthor), Irina Pandarova (Coauthor), Anne Barron (Speaker), Torben Schmidt (Coauthor), Nora Benitt (Coauthor) & Handan Çelik (Coauthor)
03.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Contrasting pragmatic choices in responding to thanks in Ireland, England and Canada (New Apporaches to Irish English (Corpus) Pragmatics - 2019, Dortmund)
Anne Barron (Speaker)
27.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Contrastivity and the pragmatic variable: Responses to thanks across English as a pluricentric language (Language, Nations, Cultures: Pluricentric Languages in Contest (s), Universität Stockholm)
Anne Barron (Plenary speaker)
24.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Contributions of declarative and procedural memory to second language accuracy and automatization
Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)
28.08.2019 → 31.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Creating curricula for competence: Findings from a comparison of three sustainability graduate programs
Jodie Birdman (Speaker) & Daniel J. Lang (Coauthor)
04.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical reflections of a female researcher in a male and masculine context – Ethnographic insights from professional and elite football.
Solvejg Wolfers-Pommerenke (Speaker)
07.06.2022 → 10.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Cultural scripts and politic bahaviour across varieties of English (Vortrag mit K.P. Schneider (Sektion: Im/politeness across Englishes) auf Einladung von Herrn Dr. Michael Haugh und Herrn Dr. Derek Bousfield, 11th International Pragmatics (PIrA) Conference, Melbourne)
Anne Barron (Speaker)
12.07.2009 → 17.07.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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
DELT – Digitally-enhanced Language Teaching: Entwicklung und Implementierung eines hochschulischen standortübergreifenden Lehr-Lernkonzepts zur digitalisierungsbezogenen Professionalisierung von Englischlehramtsstudierenden
Torben Schmidt (Speaker), Svea Wucherpfennig (Speaker), Rossa Henning (Speaker), Joline Schmit (Speaker) & Lisa Klaaen (Speaker)
28.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Der Zauberlehrling im Internat: Harry Potter im Kontext der britischen Literaturtradition
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
09.11.2001 → 10.11.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Designing Digital Material for Foreign Language Learning
Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Manuela Schlick (Speaker)
16.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Developing variational pragmatics (10th International Pragmatics (IPrA) Conference, Göteborg, Schweden)
Anne Barron (Speaker) & Klaus Schneider (Speaker)
08.07.2007 → 13.07.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“Did You Have Yummy Cats for Breakfast?” - Racial Humour in German Professional and Elite Football
Solvejg Wolfers (Speaker)
10.04.2018 → 13.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Komplexität der Einfachheit (SIKJM-Jahrestagung 2019, Zürich)
Emer O'Sullivan (Plenary speaker)
25.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Digitale (Lehr)Welten - Rollenverständnis und Kompetenzen von Fremdsprachenlehrenden
Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Jan Sprenger (Speaker)
25.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Digitalkonferenz: Fremdsprachenlernen im digitalen Zeitalter
Torben Schmidt (Plenary speaker)
04.09.2020 → 06.09.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Does pragmatic variation have a place in foreign language teaching? (EUROSLA 2008, Aix-en-Provence)
Anne Barron (Speaker)
10.09.2008 → 13.09.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Do mindsets make a difference? Professionalizing teachers for inclusive language learning environments
Bianca Roters (Speaker), Carolyn Blume (Speaker), David Gerlach (Speaker) & Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
23.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“Don’t be daft, I’m paying”: First date payment negotiations across cultures and genders (EPICS X, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville)
Anne Barron (Plenary speaker)
23.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research