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).

  1. 2001
  2. Symposium 'Children's Literature: The future of the subject' 2001

    Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)

    11.08.200112.08.2001

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. 15. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - IRSCL2001

    Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)

    20.08.200124.08.2001

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. 19. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - DGFF 2001

    Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)

    04.10.200106.10.2001

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Der Zauberlehrling im Internat: Harry Potter im Kontext der britischen Literaturtradition

    Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)

    09.11.200110.11.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Heidi from the Highlands. Johanna Spyris Roman in englischen und amerikanischen Übersetzungen.

    Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)

    10.12.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. 2002
  8. Kinderliterarisches Übersetzen

    Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)

    13.03.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  9. Deutschlands grüne Insel. Eine imagologische Analyse des Irlandbildes in der deutschsprachigen Literatur.

    Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)

    18.03.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Fernkurs Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - STUBE 2002/2003

    Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)

    01.10.200201.06.2003

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  11. Comparing Children's Literature

    Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)

    12.11.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Caution and Subversion. Perspective and Comedy in English Translations of Struwwelpeter.

    Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)

    13.11.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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