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
Fulbright International Interdisciplinary Conference "Olympism and the Fulbright Spirit: Humanism in Action" 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
08.10.2004 → 10.10.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Future Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of National Stereotypes 2008
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.02.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Grenzenlos. Nachwendegeschichte(n) in (Kinder- und Jugend-)Literatur und Medien - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.09.2009 → 26.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationales Symposium 'Johanna Sypri und ihr Werk' 2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
06.07.2001 → 07.07.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
30.05.2019 → 01.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und Interkulturalität 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.09.1999 → 16.09.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
Konferenz des European Institute for the Development of Potential in All Children -IEDPE UK 1998
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
16.10.1998Activity: 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
'Nationale Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Prozess der Modernisierung und Internationalisierung - am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Türkei' 1995
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
09.04.1995 → 12.04.1995Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
‘Otherness in Children’s Literature, Other Genre in Children’s Culture’
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
31.03.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Putting the figure on the map: Imagining sameness and difference for children - 2013
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
11.09.2013 → 14.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Rencontres européennes autour de la Littérature pour la jeunesse - 2008
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
27.11.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
'Struwwelpeter in English: Contemporaries & Successors', Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
19.11.1999 → 20.11.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'Children's Literature: The future of the subject' 2001
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.08.2001 → 12.08.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'Common Themes in European Children's Literature'
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.05.1998 → 17.05.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'Gibt es eine europäische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur?'
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
04.05.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium 'The portrayal of cultural identity in European picture books'
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
17.05.2000 → 21.05.2000Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium ''What's best next? The future of children's literature in Ireland.'' - 2010
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung ‘Children’s Literature and Language Education’ - 2005
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
02.04.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung 'Cultural Studies: German Perspectives' - 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
10.12.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung der Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature - 2006
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
17.02.2006 → 18.02.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung Deutsch-Islamische Kinder- und Jugendbücher - 2005
Emer O'Sullivan (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
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
26.09.2005 → 28.09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Erzählen für Kinder: Kulturspezifik und Kulturtransfer" 2004
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.11.2004 → 20.11.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung “Magie des Erzählens” 2018
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
06.05.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung zur Bildwahrnehmung - 2006
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.09.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung zur Feier des 30. Jubiläums des Norwegian Institute for Children's Literature - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
18.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The tools of children´s literature research 1992
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
17.11.1992 → 20.11.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
‘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
Veranstaltungsreihe "Brown Bag Lectures" am Institute of English Studies
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
10.2016 → 03.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Veranstaltungsreihe "Brown Bag Lectures" am Institute of English Studies
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
04.2017 → 09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Veranstaltungsreihe "Brown Bag Lectures" am Institute of English Studies
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
10.2017 → 03.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
XIV. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)
03.08.2009 → 08.08.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Zweite Limericker Konferenz für deutsch-irische Studien - 1999
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
02.09.1999 → 04.09.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- trade fairs and exhibitions
Ausstellung „William Butler Yeats - Leben und Werk“ 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
19.01.2012 → 02.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
- External workshops, courses, seminars
4. interuniversitärer Forschungsworkshop für Promovierende im Bereich Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
31.08.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › 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
Gemeinsames Forschungskolloquium (DoktorandInnen, HabilitandInnen)
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant), Gabriele von Glasenapp (Organiser), Ute Dettmar (Participant), Michael Staiger (Participant) & Ingrid Tomkowiak (Participant)
25.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Masterclass mit DoktorandInnen am Centre for Børnelitteratur Copenhagen
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
24.03.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Masterclass mit StudentInnen am Norsk Barnebokinstitutt Oslo - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
18.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Masterclass of the Feminist Research Group 2012
Emer O'Sullivan (Chair)
07.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Masterclass Translation Studies für Promovierende an belgischen Universitäten
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
21.03.2024 → 23.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present - 2009
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
04.12.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present 2011
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
19.03.2011 → 21.03.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- Guest lectures
Alice: Metamorphosen einer weltliterarischen Figur
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
02.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ansätze zu einer komparatistischen Kinder- und Jugendliteraturwissenschaft
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
11.02.1994Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Books for young patriots. A comparative look at British and German picturebooks published before and during the First World War
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
20.03.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Caution and Subversion. Perspective and Comedy in English Translations of Struwwelpeter.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Children‘s Literature in Foreign Language Teaching
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
24.03.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research