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).
- Conferences
'Concetti e metodi dell’imagologia letteraria' 2003
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.09.2003 → 26.09.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference 'Scrivere e tradurre per l’infanzia: voci, immagini e parole/Writing and Translating for Children: Voices, Images and Words'
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.06.2006 → 12.06.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
'Cultures in Translation', Goethe-Institut Dublin - 2010
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
10.06.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Digital Humanities und historische Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
23.10.2019 → 25.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Eröffnungsvortrag auf der Tagung des Association for Modern German Studies 2014
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
09.06.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Eröffnungsvortrag auf der Tagung 'Intercultural Connections within German and Irish Children’s Literature' 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
23.04.2004 → 24.04.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Eröffnungsvortrag auf der Tagung ‚Kinderliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht', Eötvös Loránd Universität Budapest 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
20.05.2004 → 21.05.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
'Foundations and Futures' 2010
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
08.05.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Fremdsprachendidaktisches Kolloquium Berlin-Brandenburg - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
03.07.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
'From Instruction to Delight’: Reading Traditions in Irish Primary Education. Church of Ireland College of Education 2011
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
14.10.2011 → 15.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research