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
Mitglied des internationalen wissenschaftlichen Beirats des VI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Nacional de Investigación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, Noviembre 2009 Guadalajara, México
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2009Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Schweizerischen Instituts für Kinder- und Jugendmedien
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2004 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Mitglied im Editorial Review Board der Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2009 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Mitglied im Kuratorium des 'internationalen literaturfestivals berlin' (ilf)
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
1999 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
- Peer review of project proposals
Gutachten für ein DFG-Forschungsprojekt
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
08.2020Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
- Peer review of publicationen
Academia Press (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
01.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Barnboken (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
04.2009Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Children's Literature Association Quarterly (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
03.08.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Children's Literature Association Quarterly (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
30.04.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE Journal) (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2011 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research