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).
- Academic Consultant
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
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
Gutachten zur Dissertation von Mairéad Mooney "Recovering Children's Reading: “Queer Treasures” of the Children's Collection in Cork Public Library, 1922 – 1939"
Emer O´Sullivan (Reviewer)
05.04.2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
Mitglied der "Comité scientifique" von Strenæ. Recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l'enfance (Fachzeitschrift)
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2009 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Mitglied der Findungskommission zur Besetzung der Jury für den Sonderpreis des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises 2008 für das Gesamtwerk Übersetzung
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2007Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
Mitglied des Advisory Boards für die Reihe Irish-German Studies (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier)
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2003 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research