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).

  1. 2008
  2. Future Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of National Stereotypes 2008

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    01.02.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)

    2008

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  4. 2007
  5. International Research in Children's Literature (Journal)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)

    12.2007 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  6. 5. Internationaler Kongress der Spanischen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - ANIJL 2007

    O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)

    21.11.200724.11.2007

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Zur Verortung des Bösen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    12.10.200713.10.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Zensur? Interpretation? Veränderungen in literarischen Übersetzungen

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    04.10.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  9. Children‘s Literature in Foreign Language Teaching

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    24.03.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Masterclass mit DoktorandInnen am Centre for Børnelitteratur Copenhagen

    O'Sullivan, E. (Chair)

    24.03.2007

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  11. Institute of English Studies (Organisational unit)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    01.03.200731.03.2013

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  12. Children's Literature Association (ChLA) (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    2007 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  13. 2006
  14. School of Education (Organisational unit)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Chair)

    01.10.200630.09.2012

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  15. Tagung zur Bildwahrnehmung - 2006

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    30.09.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Conference 'Scrivere e tradurre per l’infanzia: voci, immagini e parole/Writing and Translating for Children: Voices, Images and Words'

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    11.06.200612.06.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  17. Tagung der Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature - 2006

    O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)

    17.02.200618.02.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. School of Education (Organisational unit)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    01.01.200630.04.2008

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  19. Externe Gutachterin bei einem Verfahren „außerplanmäßige Professur“ an der Universität zu Köln

    O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)

    2006

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  20. 2005
  21. Harry Rowohlt: Preisträger des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises 2005 für das Gesamtwerk eines Übersetzers

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    20.10.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  22. Tagung Deutsch-Islamische Kinder- und Jugendbücher - 2005

    O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)

    26.09.200528.09.2005

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  23. Tagung ‘Deutsch-Islamische Kinder- und Jugendbücher. Alternativlektüre für den interkulturellen DaF-Unterricht in Indonesien?’ - 2005

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    26.09.200528.09.2005

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  24. 17th Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature - IRSCL 2005

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    13.09.200517.09.2005

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  25. Tagung ‘Children’s Literature and Language Education’ - 2005

    O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)

    02.04.2005

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  26. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    01.04.200531.03.2013

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  27. ‘Otherness in Children’s Literature, Other Genre in Children’s Culture’

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    31.03.2005

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  28. IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    2005

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  29. 2004
  30. Tagung "Erzählen für Kinder: Kulturspezifik und Kulturtransfer" 2004

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    18.11.200420.11.2004

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  31. Fulbright International Interdisciplinary Conference "Olympism and the Fulbright Spirit: Humanism in Action" 2004

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    08.10.200410.10.2004

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  32. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    01.10.200430.09.2006

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  33. School of Education (Organisational unit)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    01.10.2004 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  34. Children’s Literature in Language Teaching 2004

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    20.05.200421.05.2004

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  35. Eröffnungsvortrag auf der Tagung ‚Kinderliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht', Eötvös Loránd Universität Budapest 2004

    O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)

    20.05.200421.05.2004

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  36. Eröffnungsvortrag auf der Tagung 'Intercultural Connections within German and Irish Children’s Literature' 2004

    O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)

    23.04.200424.04.2004

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  37. Annual Conference of the Children’s Literature Research Association 2004

    O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)

    10.04.2004

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  38. Lost in Translation 2004

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    11.03.200413.03.2004

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  39. Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Schweizerischen Instituts für Kinder- und Jugendmedien

    O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)

    2004 → …

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  40. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Editorial Board)

    2004

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  41. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)

    2004

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  42. 2003
  43. ‘Under Fire. Childhood in the Shadow of War’ 2003

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    09.10.200311.10.2003

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  44. 'Concetti e metodi dell’imagologia letteraria' 2003

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    25.09.200326.09.2003

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  45. Rose Blanche, Rosa Weiss, Rosa Blanca. A comparative view of a controversial picturebook.

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    25.07.200330.07.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  46. 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)

    28.05.200331.05.2003

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  47. International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Executive member)

    20032005

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  48. Mitglied des Advisory Boards für die Reihe Irish-German Studies (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Consultant)

    2003 → …

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  49. Swets & Zeitglinger (Publisher)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)

    2003

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  50. 2002
  51. Caution and Subversion. Perspective and Comedy in English Translations of Struwwelpeter.

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    13.11.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  52. Comparing Children's Literature

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    12.11.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  53. Fernkurs Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - STUBE 2002/2003

    O'Sullivan, E. (Organiser)

    01.10.200201.06.2003

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  54. Deutschlands grüne Insel. Eine imagologische Analyse des Irlandbildes in der deutschsprachigen Literatur.

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    18.03.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  55. Kinderliterarisches Übersetzen

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    13.03.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  56. 2001
  57. Heidi from the Highlands. Johanna Spyris Roman in englischen und amerikanischen Übersetzungen.

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    10.12.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  58. Der Zauberlehrling im Internat: Harry Potter im Kontext der britischen Literaturtradition

    O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote Speaker)

    09.11.200110.11.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  59. 19. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - DGFF 2001

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    04.10.200106.10.2001

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  60. 15. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - IRSCL2001

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    20.08.200124.08.2001

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  61. Symposium 'Children's Literature: The future of the subject' 2001

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    11.08.200112.08.2001

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  62. 12. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer - IDT2001

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    30.07.200104.08.2001

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  63. Internationales Symposium 'Johanna Sypri und ihr Werk' 2001

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    06.07.200107.07.2001

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  64. Eröffnungsvortrag auf der Tagung des Association for Modern German Studies 2014

    O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote speaker)

    09.06.2001

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  65. In zwei Sprachen leben

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    11.05.200112.05.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  66. Symposium 'Gibt es eine europäische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur?'

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    04.05.2001

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  67. International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    20012005

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  68. 2000
  69. 10. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft - IVG 2000

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    10.09.200016.09.2000

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  70. Symposium 'The portrayal of cultural identity in European picture books'

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    17.05.200021.05.2000

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  71. Thanatos und Eros: Die Darstellung sterbender Kinder in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    01.02.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  72. Children's Books Ireland (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    2000 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  73. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    2000 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  74. Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V. (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    2000 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  75. Deutscher Hochschulverband (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    2000 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  76. European Society for the Study of English (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    2000 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  77. IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    2000 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  78. Institut für Jugendliteratur (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    2000 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  79. International Comparative Literature Association (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    2000 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  80. 1999
  81. Tagung 'Cultural Studies: German Perspectives' - 1999

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    10.12.1999

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  82. Der implizite Übersetzer. Eine neue erzähl- und übersetzungstheoretische Instanz.

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    02.12.1999

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  83. 'Struwwelpeter in English: Contemporaries & Successors', Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University 1999

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    19.11.199920.11.1999

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  84. Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und Interkulturalität 1999

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    13.09.199916.09.1999

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  85. Zweite Limericker Konferenz für deutsch-irische Studien - 1999

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    02.09.199904.09.1999

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  86. Thanatos und Eros: Die Darstellung sterbender Kinder in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    11.06.1999

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  87. 12. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1999

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    03.06.199905.06.1999

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  88. Eröffnungsvortrag auf dem Symposium 'Ein deutscher Kinderliterat mit Weltruhm. Erich Kästner und die deutsche Kinderliteratur im Ausland 1999

    O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote Speaker)

    14.02.199917.02.1999

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  89. Erich Kästners Kinderromane in den Händen der Übersetzer

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    04.02.1999

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  90. Die Spezifik kinderliterarischen Übersetzens

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    25.01.199926.01.1999

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  91. IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    1999

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  92. Mitglied im Kuratorium des 'internationalen literaturfestivals berlin' (ilf)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Consultant)

    1999

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantTransfer

  93. 1998
  94. Konferenz des European Institute for the Development of Potential in All Children -IEDPE UK 1998

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    16.10.1998

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  95. Symposium 'Common Themes in European Children's Literature'

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    13.05.199817.05.1998

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  96. 1997
  97. Ireland and the World of Children's Books

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    01.03.1997

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  98. 1996
  99. 11. Symposion Deutschdidaktik 1996

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    15.09.199619.09.1996

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  100. Bücher gehen um die Welt. Deutschsprachige Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im internationalen Kontext 1996

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    14.06.199616.06.1996

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  101. 1995
  102. 12. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - IRSCL1995

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    01.08.199505.08.1995

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  103. 'Nationale Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Prozess der Modernisierung und Internationalisierung - am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Türkei' 1995

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    09.04.199512.04.1995

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  104. 1994
  105. Englischer Humor in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    15.12.1994

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  106. Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - komparatistisch

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    09.12.1994

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  107. Die Stimmenvielfalt fremder Literaturen erschlossen

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    10.11.1994

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  108. Ansätze zu einer komparatistischen Kinder- und Jugendliteraturwissenschaft

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    11.02.1994

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  109. IBBY Germany Section (External organisation)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    1994

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  110. 1993
  111. 6. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 1993

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    26.09.199301.10.1993

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  112. Das Bild des 'Ausländers' im Jugendbuch. Verfestigung von Vorurteilen? Geht es auch anders?

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    07.06.1993

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  113. 1992
  114. The tools of children´s literature research 1992

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    17.11.199220.11.1992

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch