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).
- Peer review of publicationen
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2008Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2004Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Swets & Zeitglinger (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2003Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Walter de Gruyter GmbH (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
06.2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- Conference Presentations
24th Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature
Ulrike Kristina Köhler (Speaker)
15.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
8. internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrervereinigung
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.08.1986 → 08.08.1986Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‘Alsatian roots, Irish leaves. Tomi Ungerer, a plurilingual and pluricultural author’
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
14.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ambivalent transfer: Translated children's and youth literature and the postulated enrichment through the encounter with foreign cultures
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Books for Children. Transnational encounters 1750-1850
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Der Zauberlehrling im Internat: Harry Potter im Kontext der britischen Literaturtradition
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
09.11.2001 → 10.11.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research