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).
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Einfachheit im (kinder)literaturtheoretischen Diskurs
O'Sullivan, E., 2016, Einfachheit in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Ein Gewinn für den Fremdsprachenunterricht. Burwitz-Melzer, E. & O'Sullivan, E. (eds.). Wien: Praesens Verlag, p. 17-32 16 p. (Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Sprachenunterricht; vol. 3).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Einfachheit in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Ein Gewinn für den Fremdsprachenunterricht
Burwitz-Melzer, E. (ed.) & O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), 2016, Wien: Praesens Verlag. 212 p. (Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Sprachenunterricht; vol. 3)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Einleitung
Burwitz-Melzer, E. & O'Sullivan, E., 2016, Einfachheit in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Ein Gewinn für den Fremdsprachenunterricht. Burwitz-Melzer, E. & O'Sullivan, E. (eds.). Wien: Praesens Verlag, p. 7-14 8 p. (Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Sprachenunterricht; vol. 3).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Englishness in German translations of Alice in Wonderland
O'Sullivan, E., 2016, Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology. van Doorslaer, L., Flynn, P. & Leerssen, J. (eds.). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 87-107 21 p. (Benjamins Translation Library; vol. 119).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Fun and Military Games: The War in German Picturebooks, 1914-1915
O'Sullivan, E., 2016, Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War. Paul, L., Johnston, R. R. & Short, E. (eds.). New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 197-213 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Sprachliche Identität in Übersetzungen
O'Sullivan, E., 2016, Kulturelle Austauschprozesse in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Zur genrespezifischen Transformation von Themen, Stoffen und Motiven im medialen Kontext . Mairbäurl, G. & Seibert, E. (eds.). Wien: Praesens Verlag, p. 33-55 23 p. (Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung in Österreich; vol. 17).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Ver- und Zurück-rückungen in und von "Alice in Wonderland"
O'Sullivan, E., 2016, gorkicht im gemank. : Mediale und ästhetische Ver-rückungen (in) der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Lexe, H. (ed.). Wien: STUBE, p. 4-17 14 p. (fokus).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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William Shakespeare: Ein Sommernachtstraum. Neu erzählt von Barbara Kindermann mit Bildern von Almud Kunert (Weltliteratur für Kinder). Berlin: Kindermann. 6. Auflage 2013, Pp 36. Kart. € 15.50.
O'Sullivan, E., 2016, In: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 253, 2, p. 376-378 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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“We are Translated Men”: Mobility in Children’s Literature: Maguire, Nora, and Beth Rodgers, eds. Children’s Literature on the Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations
O'Sullivan, E., 07.2016, In: Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. 8, 1, p. 332-339 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
- 2017
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Discourses of Internationalism in Children’s Literature
O'Sullivan, E., 2017, Child autonomy and child governance in children's literature: Where Children Rule. Kelen, C. & Sundmark, B. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 30-42 13 p. (Children's literature and culture).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review