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).
- 2004
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
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
Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Schweizerischen Instituts für Kinder- und Jugendmedien
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2004 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
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)
2004Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- 2003
‘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
'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
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
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
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
Emer O'Sullivan (Executive member)
2003 → 2005Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Mitglied des Advisory Boards für die Reihe Irish-German Studies (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier)
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
2003 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Swets & Zeitglinger (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
2003Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- 2002
Caution and Subversion. Perspective and Comedy in English Translations of Struwwelpeter.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Comparing Children's Literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Fernkurs Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - STUBE 2002/2003
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
01.10.2002 → 01.06.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Deutschlands grüne Insel. Eine imagologische Analyse des Irlandbildes in der deutschsprachigen Literatur.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.03.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kinderliterarisches Übersetzen
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.03.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
- 2001
Heidi from the Highlands. Johanna Spyris Roman in englischen und amerikanischen Übersetzungen.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
10.12.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Der Zauberlehrling im Internat: Harry Potter im Kontext der britischen Literaturtradition
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker)
09.11.2001 → 10.11.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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