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
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