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).

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  2. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)

    2008

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  3. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)

    2004

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  4. Swets & Zeitglinger (Publisher)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)

    2003

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  5. Walter de Gruyter GmbH (Publisher)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)

    06.2018

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  6. Conference Presentations
  7. 24th Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature

    Ulrike Kristina Köhler (Speaker)

    15.08.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. 8. internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrervereinigung

    Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)

    04.08.198608.08.1986

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. ‘Alsatian roots, Irish leaves. Tomi Ungerer, a plurilingual and pluricultural author’

    Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)

    14.09.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Books for Children. Transnational encounters 1750-1850

    Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)

    30.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Der Zauberlehrling im Internat: Harry Potter im Kontext der britischen Literaturtradition

    Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)

    09.11.200110.11.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch