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
Fulbright International Interdisciplinary Conference "Olympism and the Fulbright Spirit: Humanism in Action" 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
08.10.2004 → 10.10.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Future Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of National Stereotypes 2008
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.02.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Grenzenlos. Nachwendegeschichte(n) in (Kinder- und Jugend-)Literatur und Medien - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.09.2009 → 26.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationales Symposium 'Johanna Sypri und ihr Werk' 2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
06.07.2001 → 07.07.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
30.05.2019 → 01.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und Interkulturalität 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.09.1999 → 16.09.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz der Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English 'Global Fragments – Dis-Orientation in the New World Order' 2003
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
28.05.2003 → 31.05.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz des European Institute for the Development of Potential in All Children -IEDPE UK 1998
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
16.10.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Lost in Translation 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.03.2004 → 13.03.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
'Nationale Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Prozess der Modernisierung und Internationalisierung - am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Türkei' 1995
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
09.04.1995 → 12.04.1995Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research