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).
- Conferences
Fulbright International Interdisciplinary Conference "Olympism and the Fulbright Spirit: Humanism in Action" 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
08.10.2004 → 10.10.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Future Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of National Stereotypes 2008
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.02.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Grenzenlos. Nachwendegeschichte(n) in (Kinder- und Jugend-)Literatur und Medien - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.09.2009 → 26.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationales Symposium 'Johanna Sypri und ihr Werk' 2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
06.07.2001 → 07.07.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und Interkulturalität 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.09.1999 → 16.09.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz der Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English 'Global Fragments – Dis-Orientation in the New World Order' 2003
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
28.05.2003 → 31.05.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz des European Institute for the Development of Potential in All Children -IEDPE UK 1998
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
16.10.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Lost in Translation 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.03.2004 → 13.03.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
'Nationale Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Prozess der Modernisierung und Internationalisierung - am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Türkei' 1995
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
09.04.1995 → 12.04.1995Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
‘Otherness in Children’s Literature, Other Genre in Children’s Culture’
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
31.03.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Putting the figure on the map: Imagining sameness and difference for children - 2013
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
11.09.2013 → 14.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Rencontres européennes autour de la Littérature pour la jeunesse - 2008
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
27.11.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
'Struwwelpeter in English: Contemporaries & Successors', Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
19.11.1999 → 20.11.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'Children's Literature: The future of the subject' 2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.08.2001 → 12.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'Common Themes in European Children's Literature'
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.05.1998 → 17.05.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'Gibt es eine europäische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur?'
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.05.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'The portrayal of cultural identity in European picture books'
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
17.05.2000 → 21.05.2000Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium ''What's best next? The future of children's literature in Ireland.'' - 2010
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung ‘Children’s Literature and Language Education’ - 2005
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
02.04.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung 'Cultural Studies: German Perspectives' - 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
10.12.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung der Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature - 2006
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
17.02.2006 → 18.02.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung Deutsch-Islamische Kinder- und Jugendbücher - 2005
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
26.09.2005 → 28.09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung ‘Deutsch-Islamische Kinder- und Jugendbücher. Alternativlektüre für den interkulturellen DaF-Unterricht in Indonesien?’ - 2005
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.09.2005 → 28.09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Erzählen für Kinder: Kulturspezifik und Kulturtransfer" 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.11.2004 → 20.11.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung “Magie des Erzählens” 2018
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
06.05.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung zur Bildwahrnehmung - 2006
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.09.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung zur Feier des 30. Jubiläums des Norwegian Institute for Children's Literature - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
18.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The tools of children´s literature research 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
17.11.1992 → 20.11.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
‘Under Fire. Childhood in the Shadow of War’ 2003
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
09.10.2003 → 11.10.2003Activity: 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
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
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
XIV. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
03.08.2009 → 08.08.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Zweite Limericker Konferenz für deutsch-irische Studien - 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
02.09.1999 → 04.09.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- trade fairs and exhibitions
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
- External workshops, courses, seminars
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
Fernkurs Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - STUBE 2002/2003
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
01.10.2002 → 01.06.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
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
Masterclass mit DoktorandInnen am Centre for Børnelitteratur Copenhagen
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
24.03.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Masterclass mit StudentInnen am Norsk Barnebokinstitutt Oslo - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Masterclass of the Feminist Research Group 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
07.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Masterclass Translation Studies für Promovierende an belgischen Universitäten
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
21.03.2024 → 23.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
04.12.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present 2011
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
19.03.2011 → 21.03.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- Guest lectures
Alice: Metamorphosen einer weltliterarischen Figur
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
02.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ansätze zu einer komparatistischen Kinder- und Jugendliteraturwissenschaft
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.02.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
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 Literature in Foreign Language Teaching
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
24.03.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research