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).
10. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft - IVG 2000
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
10.09.2000 → 16.09.2000Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
11. Symposion Deutschdidaktik 1996
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.09.1996 → 19.09.1996Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer - IDT2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.07.2001 → 04.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
03.06.1999 → 05.06.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - IRSCL1995
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.08.1995 → 05.08.1995Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
15. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - IRSCL2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.08.2001 → 24.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
17th Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature - IRSCL 2005
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.09.2005 → 17.09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
19. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - DGFF 2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.10.2001 → 06.10.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
19. Schwerter Kinder- und Jugendbuchtagung 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.10.1992 → 01.11.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1. All-Ireland Symposium of The Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literatur-ISSCL208
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
22.11.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die interdisziplinäre Erforschung und Förderung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht - AIDEFF 2014
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
25.09.2014 → 27.09.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
23. World Congress of the International Board on Books for Young People - IBBY 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
07.09.1992 → 12.09.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
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
26. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2013
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
09.05.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
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
2. Deutsch-Britisches Jugendbuch-Forum 1991
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.04.1991 → 14.04.1991Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
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
33rd International IBBY Congress 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
24.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
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
3. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1990
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
27.03.1990 → 30.03.1990Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3rd World Children's Literature Convention
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
10.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
43. Tagung des Institus für Jugendliteratur der Universität Wien 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
16.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4. internationaler Kongress über Sprachpartikeln 1987
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.08.1987 → 08.08.1987Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
4. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1991
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.05.1991 → 07.05.1991Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
5. Internationaler Kongress der Spanischen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - ANIJL 2007
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
21.11.2007 → 24.11.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
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
6. internationale Konferenz der British Comparative Literature Association 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.07.1992 → 16.07.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1993
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.09.1993 → 01.10.1993Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
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
8. internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrervereinigung
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.08.1986 → 08.08.1986Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Academia Press (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
01.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
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
Albert, Alice, Alfred: Variations of Love in the Victorian Era
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
28.01.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
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
Alice: Metamorphosen einer weltliterarischen Figur
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
02.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
'Anglo-German Attitudes - How Do We See Each Other? The Changing Attitudes of Young People in Britain and Germany' 1991
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
28.11.1991 → 29.11.1991Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual Conference of the Children’s Literature Research Association 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
10.04.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Ansätze zu einer komparatistischen Kinder- und Jugendliteraturwissenschaft
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.02.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
As others see us / Wie andere uns sehen. Eine Ausstellung britischer und deutscher Karikaturen
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
10.06.1992 → 12.06.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Ausstellung „William Butler Yeats - Leben und Werk“ 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
19.01.2012 → 02.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Auswärtiges Gutachten zu den Leistungen einer Juniorprofessorin (Zwischenevaluation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2010Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Baptist University Hong Kong (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Coordinator)
2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
Barnboken (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
04.2009Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Begutachtung eines Buchmanuskripts für die ChLA
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
08.2012Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Begutachtung eines Fachartikels für eine Publikation der Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
06.2011Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Begutachtung von zwei Fachartikeln für eine Publikation der Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
02.2013Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Books for Children. Transnational encounters 1750-1850
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Books for young patriots. A comparative look at British and German picturebooks published before and during the First World War
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
20.03.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Bücher gehen um die Welt. Deutschsprachige Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im internationalen Kontext 1996
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
14.06.1996 → 16.06.1996Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Caution and Subversion. Perspective and Comedy in English Translations of Struwwelpeter.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Children's Books Ireland (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
Children's Literature Association (ChLA) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2007 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › 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
Children‘s Literature in Foreign Language Teaching
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
24.03.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Children’s Literature in Language Teaching 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.05.2004 → 21.05.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
College (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.10.2018 → 31.03.2020Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Comparing Children's Literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
'Concetti e metodi dell’imagologia letteraria' 2003
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.09.2003 → 26.09.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference 'Scrivere e tradurre per l’infanzia: voci, immagini e parole/Writing and Translating for Children: Voices, Images and Words'
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.06.2006 → 12.06.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
'Cultures in Translation', Goethe-Institut Dublin - 2010
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
10.06.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Das Bild des 'Ausländers' im Jugendbuch. Verfestigung von Vorurteilen? Geht es auch anders?
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
07.06.1993Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Der implizite Übersetzer. Eine neue erzähl- und übersetzungstheoretische Instanz.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
02.12.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutscher Hochschulverband (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutschlands grüne Insel. Eine imagologische Analyse des Irlandbildes in der deutschsprachigen Literatur.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.03.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Komplexität der Einfachheit (SIKJM-Jahrestagung 2019, Zürich)
Emer O'Sullivan (Plenary speaker)
25.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Spezifik kinderliterarischen Übersetzens
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.01.1999 → 26.01.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Die Stimmenvielfalt fremder Literaturen erschlossen
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
10.11.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
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
Edward Lear: Limerick
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
05.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning: Sonnet 43
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
29.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Engaging with the other ... or not. The representation of foreign nations in ABCs and picturebooks.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.03.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Englischer Humor in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.12.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Erich Kästners Kinderromane in den Händen der Übersetzer
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.02.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Eröffnungsvortrag auf dem Symposium 'Ein deutscher Kinderliterat mit Weltruhm. Erich Kästner und die deutsche Kinderliteratur im Ausland 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
14.02.1999 → 17.02.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Eröffnungsvortrag auf der Tagung des Association for Modern German Studies 2014
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
09.06.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Eröffnungsvortrag auf der Tagung 'Intercultural Connections within German and Irish Children’s Literature' 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
23.04.2004 → 24.04.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Eröffnungsvortrag auf der Tagung ‚Kinderliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht', Eötvös Loránd Universität Budapest 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
20.05.2004 → 21.05.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
European Society for the Study of English (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Externe Gutachterin bei einem Beförderungsverfahren zum "Full Professor"
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2012Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Externe Gutachterin bei einem Beförderungsverfahren zum "Senior Librarian"
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2011Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Externe Gutachterin bei einem Verfahren „außerplanmäßige Professur“ an der Universität zu Köln
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2006Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research