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).
- Editor of journals
Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editor)
22.10.2015 → 27.05.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editor)
27.05.2016 → 12.2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- Conferences
10. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft - IVG 2000
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
10.09.2000 → 16.09.2000Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
11. Symposion Deutschdidaktik 1996
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.09.1996 → 19.09.1996Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer - IDT2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.07.2001 → 04.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
03.06.1999 → 05.06.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - IRSCL1995
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.08.1995 → 05.08.1995Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
15. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - IRSCL2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.08.2001 → 24.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
17th Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature - IRSCL 2005
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.09.2005 → 17.09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
19. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - DGFF 2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.10.2001 → 06.10.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
19. Schwerter Kinder- und Jugendbuchtagung 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.10.1992 → 01.11.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1. All-Ireland Symposium of The Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literatur-ISSCL208
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
22.11.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die interdisziplinäre Erforschung und Förderung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht - AIDEFF 2014
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
25.09.2014 → 27.09.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
23. World Congress of the International Board on Books for Young People - IBBY 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
07.09.1992 → 12.09.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
25th Anniversary Conference of the Centre for Irish-German Studies - 2022
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
22.09.2022 → 23.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
26. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2013
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
09.05.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
28. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - 2015
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.06.2015 → 06.06.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
29. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2016
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.05.2016 → 28.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2. Deutsch-Britisches Jugendbuch-Forum 1991
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.04.1991 → 14.04.1991Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die interdisziplinäre Erforschung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (AIDEFF) 2016
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
22.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
30. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder-und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2017
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.05.2017 → 27.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
33rd International IBBY Congress 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
24.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
34. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2022
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
26.05.2022 → 28.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1990
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
27.03.1990 → 30.03.1990Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3rd World Children's Literature Convention
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
10.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
43. Tagung des Institus für Jugendliteratur der Universität Wien 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
16.08.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4. internationaler Kongress über Sprachpartikeln 1987
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.08.1987 → 08.08.1987Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1991
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.05.1991 → 07.05.1991Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
5. Internationaler Kongress der Spanischen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - ANIJL 2007
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
21.11.2007 → 24.11.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
68. Jahrestagung der Vertrauensdozentinnen und Vertrauensdozenten der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
26.01.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
68. Jahrestagung der Vertrauensdozentinnen und Vertrauensdozenten der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.01.2018 → 28.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
6. internationale Konferenz der British Comparative Literature Association 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.07.1992 → 16.07.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1993
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.09.1993 → 01.10.1993Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6. Jahrgang des Fernkurs Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - KHL 2015
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
08.05.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6th Biennial Congress of the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies - REELC/ENCLS 2015
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
27.08.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
'Anglo-German Attitudes - How Do We See Each Other? The Changing Attitudes of Young People in Britain and Germany' 1991
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
28.11.1991 → 29.11.1991Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual Conference of the Children’s Literature Research Association 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
10.04.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
As others see us / Wie andere uns sehen. Eine Ausstellung britischer und deutscher Karikaturen
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
10.06.1992 → 12.06.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bücher gehen um die Welt. Deutschsprachige Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im internationalen Kontext 1996
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
14.06.1996 → 16.06.1996Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Children’s Literature in Language Teaching 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.05.2004 → 21.05.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
'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