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).
Zweite Limericker Konferenz für deutsch-irische Studien - 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
02.09.1999 → 04.09.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Zur Verortung des Bösen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.10.2007 → 13.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zensur? Interpretation? Veränderungen in literarischen Übersetzungen
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
XIV. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
03.08.2009 → 08.08.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Writing the city. Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
07.01.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
09.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
"'weep! 'weep!". Der kleine Schornsteinfeger in der britischen Literatur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
07.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Was ist (für wen) ein internationaler Klassiker der Kinderliteratur?
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.01.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Walter de Gruyter GmbH (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
06.2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Vortrag: Komik in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
22.07.2010Activity: 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: Irische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: eine ungewöhnliche Entwicklung
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
23.05.2013Activity: 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
"Vom Über-setzen"
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Veranstaltungsreihe "Brown Bag Lectures" am Institute of English Studies
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
10.2016 → 03.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Veranstaltungsreihe "Brown Bag Lectures" am Institute of English Studies
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
04.2017 → 09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Veranstaltungsreihe "Brown Bag Lectures" am Institute of English Studies
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
10.2017 → 03.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
University of Limerick (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Coordinator)
2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
Unfreiwillige Mitarbeit. Ausbeutung von Kindern im Dienste der Kinderliteratur in A.S. Byatts The Children's Book (2009)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
22.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‘Under Fire. Childhood in the Shadow of War’ 2003
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
09.10.2003 → 11.10.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Transportgewinne – Transportverluste. Zur Übersetzbarkeit des Komischen.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.06.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Translation
Emer O'Sullivan (Plenary speaker)
29.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Translating for children : what, for whom, how, and why.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
22.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Towards an International Keywords for Children's Literature (Roundtable): Presenters: Lissa Paul, Philip Nel, Nina Alonso, Nina Christensen, Francesca Orestano and Emer O’Sullivan
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
13.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Voice of the Translator. Narratology and Translation Studies (Uppsala University, Sweden - online)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
16.04.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Unshakeable Idea of Innocence - Lillian Hellman’s Play The Children’s Hour and Its Concept of Childhood
Gesa Woltjen (Speaker)
03.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The tools of children´s literature research 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
17.11.1992 → 20.11.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The representation of other nations in picturebooks for children
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The representation of (other) Europeans in European picturebooks
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
03.12.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Pollard Lecture 2019: Reprints, piracies, hibernicisations: Children’s books and Dublin booksellers in the late 18th century
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
14.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
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
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.02.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The changing image of Germany and the Germans in British children's literature from 1870 to the present
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.09.1989 → 08.09.1989Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The apparent simplicity of children’s literature and its implications for foreign language teaching and learning (International AILA Literature in Language Learning and Teaching Network Conference, Universität Erfurt)
Emer O'Sullivan (Plenary speaker)
30.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Thanatos und Eros: Die Darstellung sterbender Kinder in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.02.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Thanatos und Eros: Die Darstellung sterbender Kinder in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.06.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Tagung zur Feier des 30. Jubiläums des Norwegian Institute for Children's Literature - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
18.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung zur Bildwahrnehmung - 2006
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.09.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung “Magie des Erzählens” 2018
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
06.05.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Erzählen für Kinder: Kulturspezifik und Kulturtransfer" 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.11.2004 → 20.11.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung ‘Deutsch-Islamische Kinder- und Jugendbücher. Alternativlektüre für den interkulturellen DaF-Unterricht in Indonesien?’ - 2005
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.09.2005 → 28.09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung Deutsch-Islamische Kinder- und Jugendbücher - 2005
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
26.09.2005 → 28.09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung der Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature - 2006
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
17.02.2006 → 18.02.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung 'Cultural Studies: German Perspectives' - 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
10.12.1999Activity: 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
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
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 '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 '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 '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
Swets & Zeitglinger (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2003Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › 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
Strange Signs: Invented Languages from Alienation to Zany
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
22.07.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strange places and people in children’s literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
27.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strange people and places: the representation of other nations in children’s literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
26.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strange people and places: the representation of other nations in children’s literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strange people and places: the representation of other nations in children’s literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
28.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Stiftungsrat (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
11.2018 → 11.2023Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Stiftungsrat (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.11.2018 → 30.09.2025Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Sitzung des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des SIKJM
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
07.02.2019Activity: Consultancy
Silenced voices: Erasing difference in translation (24. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (IRSCL), Stockholm)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18): Vorlesung in der Reihe "10 Minuten Lyrik"
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
14.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Deputy member)
2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
2010Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
2010Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
2010Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.01.2006 → 30.04.2008Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.10.2004 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
01.10.2006 → 30.09.2009Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.04.2008 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.01.2011 → 31.12.2013Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.01.2011 → 01.05.2014Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
01.10.2009 → 30.09.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
01.10.2009 → 30.09.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
01.10.2012 → 30.09.2015Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
01.10.2015 → 30.09.2018Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.10.2004 → 30.09.2006Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editorial Board)
2004Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
26.05.2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2010Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2008Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2004Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Rose Blanche, Rosa Weiss, Rosa Blanca. A comparative view of a controversial picturebook.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.07.2003 → 30.07.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Reprints, Piracies, Hibernicisations: Children’s Books and Late Eighteenth-Century Dublin Booksellers (Princeton University)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
Remote? Präsenz? Hybrid? Blended? Postpandemisches Lehren und Lernen in Bildungsinstitutionen am Beispiel von Literaturwissenschaft und Fremdsprachenvermittlung.
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker) & Dietmar Rösler (Keynote Speaker)
31.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
Purdue University Press (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2011Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Präsentation des Historischen Romans "Where the Stones Sing" von Eithne Massey
Emer O'Sullivan (Oral presentation)
15.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Praesens Verlag (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editorial Board)
2017 → 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Plenarvortrag auf dem Kolloquium "Die Welt im Kinderbuch - zum 100. Geburtstag von Bettina Hürlimann", Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
19.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Picturing the world for children: early 19th-century images of foreign nations
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
12.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Pictures that paint a thousand words? Nonsense translated in illustrations for Lewis Carroll's "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
04.01.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
07.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
‘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
Nationale Stereotype in der Literatur als Ausgangspunkt für landeskundliche Diskussionen
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.01.1987Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
'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