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).
- Editor of journals
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
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
- Conferences
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