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).
- Guest lectures
"Vom Über-setzen"
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Vortrag: Fun and Military Games: The War in German Picture Books
Emer O'Sullivan (Oral presentation)
16.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Vortrag: Irische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: eine ungewöhnliche Entwicklung
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
23.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Vortrag: Kinder- und Jugendliteratur als Forschungsgegenstand
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.05.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Vortrag: Komik in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
22.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Was ist (für wen) ein internationaler Klassiker der Kinderliteratur?
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.01.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Wenn aus der Mad Tea Party ein deutsches Kaffeekränzchen wird. Zielkulturelle Adaptionen in Übersetzungen von Kinderliteratur als Mittel zur Bewusstmachung interkulturellen Transfers in der Lehrerbildung.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.10.1998Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
09.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Writing the city. Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
07.01.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
- Consultancy
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media (SIKJM )
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2012 → …Activity: Consultancy
Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2018 → 2021Activity: Consultancy
Member of the scientific committee of ANILIJ 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2018 → 2019Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied der Jury für den James Krüss Preis für internationale Kinder- und Jugendliteratur 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2018 → 2019Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied des Advisory Boards der Fachzeitschrift International Research in Children’s Literature (IRCL)
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2008 → 2021Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied im Publications Advisory Board der Children's Literature Association (USA)
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2011 → 2014Activity: Consultancy
Sitzung des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des SIKJM
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
07.02.2019Activity: Consultancy
- Academic councils, panels and committees
Advisory Board for Keywords in Children's Literature (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2016 → 2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2005Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1999Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1994Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1991 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Internationale Jugendbibliothek (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2012 → 2013Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Internationale Jugendbibliothek (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2014 → 2015Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Internationale Jugendbibliothek (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2016 → 2017Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2016 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2018 → 2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Literaturbüro Lüneburg e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Coordinator)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Education
Stiftungsrat (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
11.2018 → 11.2023Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
- Academic networks or partnerships
Baptist University Hong Kong (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Coordinator)
2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
University of Limerick (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Coordinator)
2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
- Bodies of public institutions
Literaturbüro Lüneburg e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Executive member)
05.2013 → 05.2016Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
Literaturbüro Lüneburg e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
05.2016 → 05.2022Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
Children's Books Ireland (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
Children's Literature Association (ChLA) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2007 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutscher Hochschulverband (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2021 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
European Society for the Study of English (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2018 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1987 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
Institut für Jugendliteratur (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Comparative Literature Association (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2001 → 2005Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Executive member)
2003 → 2005Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
1987 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- Leuphana academic councils and committees
College (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.10.2018 → 31.03.2020Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of English Studies (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.03.2007 → 31.03.2013Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of English Studies (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.10.2014 → 31.03.2016Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees