Professorship for English Literature
Organisational unit: Professoship
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.
Main research areas
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).
- 2007
Zensur? Interpretation? Veränderungen in literarischen Übersetzungen
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
04.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Children‘s Literature in Foreign Language Teaching
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
24.03.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Masterclass mit DoktorandInnen am Centre for Børnelitteratur Copenhagen
O'Sullivan, E. (Chair)
24.03.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Institute of English Studies (Organisational unit)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
01.03.2007 → 31.03.2013Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Children's Literature Association (ChLA) (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
2007 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Mitglied der Findungskommission zur Besetzung der Jury für den Sonderpreis des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises 2008 für das Gesamtwerk Übersetzung
O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)
2007Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
- 2006
School of Education (Organisational unit)
O'Sullivan, E. (Chair)
01.10.2006 → 30.09.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Tagung zur Bildwahrnehmung - 2006
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
30.09.2006Activity: 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'
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
11.06.2006 → 12.06.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung der Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature - 2006
O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)
17.02.2006 → 18.02.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
School of Education (Organisational unit)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
01.01.2006 → 30.04.2008Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Externe Gutachterin bei einem Verfahren „außerplanmäßige Professur“ an der Universität zu Köln
O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)
2006Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
- 2005
Harry Rowohlt: Preisträger des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises 2005 für das Gesamtwerk eines Übersetzers
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
20.10.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Tagung Deutsch-Islamische Kinder- und Jugendbücher - 2005
O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)
26.09.2005 → 28.09.2005Activity: 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
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
26.09.2005 → 28.09.2005Activity: 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
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
13.09.2005 → 17.09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung ‘Children’s Literature and Language Education’ - 2005
O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)
02.04.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
01.04.2005 → 31.03.2013Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
‘Otherness in Children’s Literature, Other Genre in Children’s Culture’
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
31.03.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
2005Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
- 2004
Tagung "Erzählen für Kinder: Kulturspezifik und Kulturtransfer" 2004
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
18.11.2004 → 20.11.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Fulbright International Interdisciplinary Conference "Olympism and the Fulbright Spirit: Humanism in Action" 2004
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
08.10.2004 → 10.10.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
01.10.2004 → 30.09.2006Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
01.10.2004 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Children’s Literature in Language Teaching 2004
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
20.05.2004 → 21.05.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Eröffnungsvortrag auf der Tagung ‚Kinderliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht', Eötvös Loránd Universität Budapest 2004
O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)
20.05.2004 → 21.05.2004Activity: 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
O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)
23.04.2004 → 24.04.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual Conference of the Children’s Literature Research Association 2004
O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)
10.04.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Lost in Translation 2004
O'Sullivan, E. (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
O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)
2004 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
O'Sullivan, E. (Editorial Board)
2004Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)
2004Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- 2003
‘Under Fire. Childhood in the Shadow of War’ 2003
O'Sullivan, E. (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
O'Sullivan, E. (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.
O'Sullivan, E. (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
O'Sullivan, E. (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)
O'Sullivan, E. (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)
O'Sullivan, E. (Consultant)
2003 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Swets & Zeitglinger (Publisher)
O'Sullivan, E. (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.
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
13.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Comparing Children's Literature
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
12.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Fernkurs Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - STUBE 2002/2003
O'Sullivan, E. (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.
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
18.03.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kinderliterarisches Übersetzen
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
13.03.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
- 2001
Heidi from the Highlands. Johanna Spyris Roman in englischen und amerikanischen Übersetzungen.
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
10.12.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Der Zauberlehrling im Internat: Harry Potter im Kontext der britischen Literaturtradition
O'Sullivan, E. (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
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
04.10.2001 → 06.10.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
15. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - IRSCL2001
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
20.08.2001 → 24.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'Children's Literature: The future of the subject' 2001
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
11.08.2001 → 12.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer - IDT2001
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
30.07.2001 → 04.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationales Symposium 'Johanna Sypri und ihr Werk' 2001
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
06.07.2001 → 07.07.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Eröffnungsvortrag auf der Tagung des Association for Modern German Studies 2014
O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)
09.06.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
In zwei Sprachen leben
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
11.05.2001 → 12.05.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Symposium 'Gibt es eine europäische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur?'
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
04.05.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
2001 → 2005Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- 2000
10. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft - IVG 2000
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
10.09.2000 → 16.09.2000Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'The portrayal of cultural identity in European picture books'
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
17.05.2000 → 21.05.2000Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Thanatos und Eros: Die Darstellung sterbender Kinder in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
01.02.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Children's Books Ireland (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V. (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutscher Hochschulverband (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
European Society for the Study of English (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
Institut für Jugendliteratur (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Comparative Literature Association (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- 1999
Tagung 'Cultural Studies: German Perspectives' - 1999
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
10.12.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Der implizite Übersetzer. Eine neue erzähl- und übersetzungstheoretische Instanz.
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
02.12.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
'Struwwelpeter in English: Contemporaries & Successors', Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University 1999
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
19.11.1999 → 20.11.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und Interkulturalität 1999
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
13.09.1999 → 16.09.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Zweite Limericker Konferenz für deutsch-irische Studien - 1999
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
02.09.1999 → 04.09.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Thanatos und Eros: Die Darstellung sterbender Kinder in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
11.06.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
12. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1999
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
03.06.1999 → 05.06.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Eröffnungsvortrag auf dem Symposium 'Ein deutscher Kinderliterat mit Weltruhm. Erich Kästner und die deutsche Kinderliteratur im Ausland 1999
O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote Speaker)
14.02.1999 → 17.02.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Erich Kästners Kinderromane in den Händen der Übersetzer
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
04.02.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Die Spezifik kinderliterarischen Übersetzens
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
25.01.1999 → 26.01.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
1999Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Mitglied im Kuratorium des 'internationalen literaturfestivals berlin' (ilf)
O'Sullivan, E. (Consultant)
1999 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
- 1998
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.
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
26.10.1998Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Konferenz des European Institute for the Development of Potential in All Children -IEDPE UK 1998
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
16.10.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'Common Themes in European Children's Literature'
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
13.05.1998 → 17.05.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 1997
Ireland and the World of Children's Books
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
01.03.1997Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
- 1996
11. Symposion Deutschdidaktik 1996
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
15.09.1996 → 19.09.1996Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bücher gehen um die Welt. Deutschsprachige Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im internationalen Kontext 1996
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
14.06.1996 → 16.06.1996Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 1995
12. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - IRSCL1995
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
01.08.1995 → 05.08.1995Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
'Nationale Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Prozess der Modernisierung und Internationalisierung - am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Türkei' 1995
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
09.04.1995 → 12.04.1995Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 1994
Englischer Humor in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
15.12.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - komparatistisch
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
09.12.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Stimmenvielfalt fremder Literaturen erschlossen
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
10.11.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Ansätze zu einer komparatistischen Kinder- und Jugendliteraturwissenschaft
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
11.02.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
1994Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
- 1993
6. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1993
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
26.09.1993 → 01.10.1993Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Das Bild des 'Ausländers' im Jugendbuch. Verfestigung von Vorurteilen? Geht es auch anders?
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
07.06.1993Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
- 1992
The tools of children´s literature research 1992
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
17.11.1992 → 20.11.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
19. Schwerter Kinder- und Jugendbuchtagung 1992
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
30.10.1992 → 01.11.1992Activity: 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
O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)
07.09.1992 → 12.09.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6. internationale Konferenz der British Comparative Literature Association 1992
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
13.07.1992 → 16.07.1992Activity: 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
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
10.06.1992 → 12.06.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 1991
'Anglo-German Attitudes - How Do We See Each Other? The Changing Attitudes of Young People in Britain and Germany' 1991
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
28.11.1991 → 29.11.1991Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1991
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
04.05.1991 → 07.05.1991Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research