Professorship for English Literature
Organisational unit: Section
Organisation profile
In the English Literature section, our research and teaching focusses on a wide range of topics from a broadly Cultural Studies perspective. Areas of particular interest in our research include narratology, image studies, literary translation and adaptation, transnational phenomena, Irish literature, children’s literature as well as literature of the Romantic period and eighteenth-century literature situated at the interface of literature and music. In our teaching we offer courses in the Bachelor and Master programmes in Teacher Education and Cultural Studies. Seminar topics range from a general Introduction to English Literature to literary translation, transmedia storytelling, contemporary Irish short stories, children’s literature, the picturebook and other multimodal texts, literary nonsense, specific writers such as Oscar Wilde or genres such as eighteenth-century travel. We explore how literature works between and beyond the book covers in research-based seminars and project seminars in cooperation with partners in literary institutions, in theatre excursions and through guest lectures by contemporary authors and translators as well as by representatives of publishing houses and from the local theatre. Committed to our teaching, we employ different didactic approaches and methods, including blended learning, and use a variety of teaching materials specifically tailored to our students’ needs and interests.
Topics
Areas of research are comparative literature, translation studies, image studies, children's literature and literature in the classroom (intercultural aspects and children's literature in foreign language learning and teaching).
- 2014
Institute of English Studies (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.10.2014 → 31.03.2016Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
- 2015
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
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht: Gastvorlesung an der PH Heidelberg
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
05.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
6. Jahrgang des Fernkurs Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - KHL 2015
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
08.05.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
26.05.2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › 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
The Unshakeable Idea of Innocence - Lillian Hellman’s Play The Children’s Hour and Its Concept of Childhood
Gesa Woltjen (Speaker)
03.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
6th Biennial Congress of the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies - REELC/ENCLS 2015
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
27.08.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
01.10.2015 → 30.09.2018Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Alice in a World of Wonderlands. The Translations of Lewis Carroll‘s Masterpiece
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
07.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editor)
22.10.2015 → 27.05.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2016
Advisory Board for Keywords in Children's Literature (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2016 → 2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Advisory Board for Keywords in Children's Literature (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2016 → 2018Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
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
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.01.2016 → 30.09.2020Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.01.2016 → 31.12.2019Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.04.2016 → 31.03.2018Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Children's Literature Association Quarterly (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
30.04.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Literaturbüro Lüneburg e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
05.2016 → 05.2022Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
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
Strange Signs: Invented Languages from Alienation to Zany
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
22.07.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
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
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
Alice: Metamorphosen einer weltliterarischen Figur
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
02.11.2016Activity: 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
Praesens Verlag (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editorial Board)
2017 → 2025Activity: 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
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
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
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
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
Illustration as intersemiotic translation: Visualising nonsense:
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
19.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2018
Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2018 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › 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
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
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
Imagining Difference: strange people and places in children’s literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
29.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Tagung “Magie des Erzählens” 2018
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
06.05.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Books for Children. Transnational encounters 1750-1850
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Walter de Gruyter GmbH (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
06.2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18): Vorlesung in der Reihe "10 Minuten Lyrik"
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
14.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
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
College (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.10.2018 → 31.03.2020Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Stiftungsrat (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
11.2018 → 11.2023Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Stiftungsrat (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.11.2018 → 30.09.2025Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Illustration as intersemiotic translation: visualising nonsense
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
29.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strange people and places: the representation of other nations in children’s literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Pictures that paint a thousand words? Nonsense translated in illustrations for Lewis Carroll's "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2019
Imagology, comparative children’s literature, and digital humanities: exploring potential synergies
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
17.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
Sitzung des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des SIKJM
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
07.02.2019Activity: Consultancy
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
Gutachten zur Dissertation von Mairéad Mooney "Recovering Children's Reading: “Queer Treasures” of the Children's Collection in Cork Public Library, 1922 – 1939"
Emer O´Sullivan (Reviewer)
05.04.2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
30.05.2019 → 01.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Edward Lear: Limerick
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
05.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Harry Potter: Zwischen Satanismus und Heilslehre
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
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
Silenced voices: Erasing difference in translation (24. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (IRSCL), Stockholm)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The apparent simplicity of children’s literature and its implications for foreign language teaching and learning (International AILA Literature in Language Learning and Teaching Network Conference, Universität Erfurt)
Emer O'Sullivan (Plenary speaker)
30.08.2019Activity: 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
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
Digital Humanities und historische Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
23.10.2019 → 25.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Reprints, Piracies, Hibernicisations: Children’s Books and Late Eighteenth-Century Dublin Booksellers (Princeton University)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2020
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
04.01.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning: Sonnet 43
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
29.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Harry Potter - Zwischen Satanismus und Heilslehre
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
07.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Gutachten für ein DFG-Forschungsprojekt
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
08.2020Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
- 2021
European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2021 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
My vision for 100 years of Irish-German diplomatic relations – in 100 seconds (Irish-German diplomatic relations – towards the 100th anniversary)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.02.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
"'weep! 'weep!". Der kleine Schornsteinfeger in der britischen Literatur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
07.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Translation
Emer O'Sullivan (Plenary speaker)
29.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2022
Translating for children : what, for whom, how, and why.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
22.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Remote? Präsenz? Hybrid? Blended? Postpandemisches Lehren und Lernen in Bildungsinstitutionen am Beispiel von Literaturwissenschaft und Fremdsprachenvermittlung.
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker) & Dietmar Rösler (Keynote Speaker)
31.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Geglückte Zweisprachigkeit in Bilderbüchern. Literaturwissenschaftliche und fremdsprachendidaktische Perspektiven
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker) & Dietmar Rösler (Speaker)
12.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
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
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.07.2022 → 30.06.2025Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
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
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
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
International Children’s Literature and the World Republic of Childhood
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
28.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
09.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
- 2023
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
10.05.2023 → 30.09.2025Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Unfreiwillige Mitarbeit. Ausbeutung von Kindern im Dienste der Kinderliteratur in A.S. Byatts The Children's Book (2009)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
22.06.2023Activity: 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
Mystische Ekstase in den religiösen Gedichten John Donnes. Eine Annäherung an das Sonett ‚Batter my heart, three-person'd God‘.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
09.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education