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
‘Otherness in Children’s Literature, Other Genre in Children’s Culture’
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
31.03.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Putting the figure on the map: Imagining sameness and difference for children - 2013
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
11.09.2013 → 14.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Rencontres européennes autour de la Littérature pour la jeunesse - 2008
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
27.11.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
'Struwwelpeter in English: Contemporaries & Successors', Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
19.11.1999 → 20.11.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'Children's Literature: The future of the subject' 2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.08.2001 → 12.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'Common Themes in European Children's Literature'
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.05.1998 → 17.05.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'Gibt es eine europäische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur?'
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.05.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'The portrayal of cultural identity in European picture books'
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
17.05.2000 → 21.05.2000Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium ''What's best next? The future of children's literature in Ireland.'' - 2010
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung ‘Children’s Literature and Language Education’ - 2005
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
02.04.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research