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
The Unshakeable Idea of Innocence - Lillian Hellman’s Play The Children’s Hour and Its Concept of Childhood
Gesa Woltjen (Speaker)
03.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Translation
Emer O'Sullivan (Plenary speaker)
29.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Unfreiwillige Mitarbeit. Ausbeutung von Kindern im Dienste der Kinderliteratur in A.S. Byatts The Children's Book (2009)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
22.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
"'weep! 'weep!". Der kleine Schornsteinfeger in der britischen Literatur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
07.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zur Verortung des Bösen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.10.2007 → 13.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- talk or presentation in privat or public events
Albert, Alice, Alfred: Variations of Love in the Victorian Era
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
28.01.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Alice in a World of Wonderlands. The Translations of Lewis Carroll‘s Masterpiece
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
07.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Edward Lear: Limerick
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
05.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Harry Potter - Zwischen Satanismus und Heilslehre
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Harry Potter: Zwischen Satanismus und Heilslehre
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research