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).
- External workshops, courses, seminars
Masterclass mit StudentInnen am Norsk Barnebokinstitutt Oslo - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Masterclass of the Feminist Research Group 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
07.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Masterclass Translation Studies für Promovierende an belgischen Universitäten
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
21.03.2024 → 23.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
04.12.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present 2011
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
19.03.2011 → 21.03.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- Guest lectures
Alice: Metamorphosen einer weltliterarischen Figur
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
02.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ansätze zu einer komparatistischen Kinder- und Jugendliteraturwissenschaft
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.02.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Books for young patriots. A comparative look at British and German picturebooks published before and during the First World War
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
20.03.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Caution and Subversion. Perspective and Comedy in English Translations of Struwwelpeter.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Children‘s Literature in Foreign Language Teaching
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
24.03.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research