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).
- Conference Presentations
Die Komplexität der Einfachheit (SIKJM-Jahrestagung 2019, Zürich)
Emer O'Sullivan (Plenary speaker)
25.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Eröffnungsvortrag auf dem Symposium 'Ein deutscher Kinderliterat mit Weltruhm. Erich Kästner und die deutsche Kinderliteratur im Ausland 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
14.02.1999 → 17.02.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Illustration as intersemiotic translation: Visualising nonsense:
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
19.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Imagology, comparative children’s literature, and digital humanities: exploring potential synergies
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
17.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
My vision for 100 years of Irish-German diplomatic relations – in 100 seconds (Irish-German diplomatic relations – towards the 100th anniversary)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.02.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Remote? Präsenz? Hybrid? Blended? Postpandemisches Lehren und Lernen in Bildungsinstitutionen am Beispiel von Literaturwissenschaft und Fremdsprachenvermittlung.
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker) & Dietmar Rösler (Keynote Speaker)
31.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Reprints, Piracies, Hibernicisations: Children’s Books and Late Eighteenth-Century Dublin Booksellers (Princeton University)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Silenced voices: Erasing difference in translation (24. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (IRSCL), Stockholm)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The apparent simplicity of children’s literature and its implications for foreign language teaching and learning (International AILA Literature in Language Learning and Teaching Network Conference, Universität Erfurt)
Emer O'Sullivan (Plenary speaker)
30.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The changing image of Germany and the Germans in British children's literature from 1870 to the present
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.09.1989 → 08.09.1989Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research