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).

  1. 2015
  2. Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE Journal) (Journal)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)

    02.2015

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

  3. 2014
  4. Institute of English Studies (Organisational unit)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Member)

    01.10.201431.03.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  5. 1. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die interdisziplinäre Erforschung und Förderung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht - AIDEFF 2014

    Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)

    25.09.201427.09.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. 3rd World Children's Literature Convention

    Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)

    10.08.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Member)

    01.04.201431.03.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  8. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Member)

    01.04.201431.03.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  9. Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE Journal) (Journal)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)

    02.2014

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

  10. Internationale Jugendbibliothek (External organisation)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Member)

    20142015

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  11. 2013
  12. The representation of (other) Europeans in European picturebooks

    Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)

    03.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. La république universelle de l’enfance: a nation without borders

    Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)

    02.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  14. Picturing the world for children: early 19th-century images of foreign nations

    Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)

    12.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  15. Putting the figure on the map: Imagining sameness and difference for children - 2013

    Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)

    11.09.201314.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Vortrag: Irische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: eine ungewöhnliche Entwicklung

    Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)

    23.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  17. 26. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2013

    Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)

    09.05.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. Literaturbüro Lüneburg e.V. (External organisation)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Executive member)

    05.201305.2016

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsTransfer

  19. Vortrag: Fun and Military Games: The War in German Picture Books

    Emer O'Sullivan (Oral presentation)

    16.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  20. Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE Journal) (Journal)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)

    03.2013

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

  21. Begutachtung von zwei Fachartikeln für eine Publikation der Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature

    Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)

    02.2013

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  22. Academia Press (Publisher)

    Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)

    01.2013

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

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