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).
- Guest lectures
Comparing Children's Literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
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 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
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
Geglückte Zweisprachigkeit in Bilderbüchern. Literaturwissenschaftliche und fremdsprachendidaktische Perspektiven
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker) & Dietmar Rösler (Speaker)
12.05.2022Activity: 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
Guest lecture: G is for German: Constructions of Nationality and Ethnicity in Picturebooks
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
06.02.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Guest lecture: Translated for whom? The specifics of translating children's literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Harry Rowohlt: Preisträger des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises 2005 für das Gesamtwerk eines Übersetzers
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.10.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Heidi from the Highlands. Johanna Spyris Roman in englischen und amerikanischen Übersetzungen.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
10.12.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Illustration as intersemiotic translation: visualising nonsense
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
24.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Illustration as intersemiotic translation: visualising nonsense
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
29.11.2018Activity: 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
International Children’s Literature and the World Republic of Childhood
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
28.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
In zwei Sprachen leben
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.05.2001 → 12.05.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Ireland and the World of Children's Books
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.03.1997Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Kinderliterarisches Übersetzen
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.03.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - komparatistisch
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
09.12.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht: Gastvorlesung an der PH Heidelberg
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
05.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
La république universelle de l’enfance: a nation without borders
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
02.12.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
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
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
Nationale Stereotype in der Literatur als Ausgangspunkt für landeskundliche Diskussionen
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.01.1987Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
Picturing the world for children: early 19th-century images of foreign nations
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
12.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Plenarvortrag auf dem Kolloquium "Die Welt im Kinderbuch - zum 100. Geburtstag von Bettina Hürlimann", Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
19.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Rose Blanche, Rosa Weiss, Rosa Blanca. A comparative view of a controversial picturebook.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.07.2003 → 30.07.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
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
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
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
Strange places and people in children’s literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
27.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strange Signs: Invented Languages from Alienation to Zany
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
22.07.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Thanatos und Eros: Die Darstellung sterbender Kinder in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.02.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Thanatos und Eros: Die Darstellung sterbender Kinder in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.06.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.02.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
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
The representation of (other) Europeans in European picturebooks
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
03.12.2013Activity: 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
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
Towards an International Keywords for Children's Literature (Roundtable): Presenters: Lissa Paul, Philip Nel, Nina Alonso, Nina Christensen, Francesca Orestano and Emer O’Sullivan
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
13.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Translating for children : what, for whom, how, and why.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
22.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Transportgewinne – Transportverluste. Zur Übersetzbarkeit des Komischen.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.06.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
"Vom Über-setzen"
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Vortrag: Fun and Military Games: The War in German Picture Books
Emer O'Sullivan (Oral presentation)
16.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Vortrag: Irische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: eine ungewöhnliche Entwicklung
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
23.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Vortrag: Kinder- und Jugendliteratur als Forschungsgegenstand
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.05.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Vortrag: Komik in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
22.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Was ist (für wen) ein internationaler Klassiker der Kinderliteratur?
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.01.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Wenn aus der Mad Tea Party ein deutsches Kaffeekränzchen wird. Zielkulturelle Adaptionen in Übersetzungen von Kinderliteratur als Mittel zur Bewusstmachung interkulturellen Transfers in der Lehrerbildung.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.10.1998Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
09.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Writing the city. Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
07.01.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
- Consultancy
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media (SIKJM )
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2012 → …Activity: Consultancy
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
Mitglied des Advisory Boards der Fachzeitschrift International Research in Children’s Literature (IRCL)
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2008 → 2021Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied im Publications Advisory Board der Children's Literature Association (USA)
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2011 → 2014Activity: Consultancy
Sitzung des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des SIKJM
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
07.02.2019Activity: Consultancy
- Academic councils, panels and committees
Advisory Board for Keywords in Children's Literature (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2016 → 2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2005Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1999Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1994Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1991 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Internationale Jugendbibliothek (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2012 → 2013Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Internationale Jugendbibliothek (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2014 → 2015Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
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
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2018 → 2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Literaturbüro Lüneburg e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Coordinator)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Education
Stiftungsrat (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
11.2018 → 11.2023Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
- Academic networks or partnerships
Baptist University Hong Kong (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Coordinator)
2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
University of Limerick (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Coordinator)
2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
- Bodies of public institutions
Literaturbüro Lüneburg e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Executive member)
05.2013 → 05.2016Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
Literaturbüro Lüneburg e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
05.2016 → 05.2022Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
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
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
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
Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2018 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1987 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
Institut für Jugendliteratur (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Comparative Literature Association (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2001 → 2005Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Executive member)
2003 → 2005Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1987 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- Leuphana academic councils and committees
College (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.10.2018 → 31.03.2020Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of English Studies (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.03.2007 → 31.03.2013Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
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