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).
- 2006
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Narratology meets translation studies, or, the voice of the translator in children's literature
O'Sullivan, E., 2006, The Translation of Children's Literature: a reader. Lathey, G. (ed.). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters , p. 98 -109 12 p. (Topics in translation; no. 31).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Studies in children's literature, 1500 - 2000, editors Celia Keenan ... Studies in children's literature, 1500 - 2000 /
O'Sullivan, E., 2006, In: The Irish Review. 34, 1, p. 175-177 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Translating Pictures: the interaction of pictures and words in the translation of picture books
O'Sullivan, E., 2006, The translation of children's literature: a reader. Lathey, G. (ed.). Clevedon [u.a.]: Multilingual Matters , p. 113-121 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Translation
O'Sullivan, E., 2006, The Oxford encyclopedia of children's literature: Vol. 4: Smad - Zwer. Zipes, J. D. (ed.). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, p. 107-108 2 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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Zwischen Erziehung und Unterhaltung: zur Verortung der Kinderliteratur von Robinson der Jüngere bis Harry Potter
O'Sullivan, E., 2006, Unterhaltungskultur. Faulstich, W. & Knop, K. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 147-166 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
- 2007
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At the periphery of the periphery: children's literature, global and local
O'Sullivan, E., 2007, Global fragments: (dis)orientation in the new world order. Bartels, A. & Wiemann, D. (eds.). Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 241-258 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Children's literature
O'Sullivan, E., 2007, Imagology: The Cultural Construction and Literary Representation of National Characters : a Critical Survey. Beller, M. & Leerssen, J. (eds.). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Rodopi, p. 290-294 5 p. (Studia Imagologica; vol. 13).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Ent-Fernungen, Fremdwahrnehmung und Kulturtransfer in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur seit 1945, Bd. 1, Fremdwahrnehmung, zur Thematisierung kultureller Alterität in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur seit 1945: Fremdwahrnehmung / Gina Weinkauff
O'Sullivan, E., 2007, In: Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. p. 145-148 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Idylle und Ernüchterung: eine imagologische Analyse des Irlandbilds in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
O'Sullivan, E., 2007, Horizonte verschmelzen: zur Hermeneutik der Vermittlung ; Hartmut Eggert zum 70. Geburtstag. Brittnacher, H. R. (ed.). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, p. 117-128 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Literaturbeziehungen: Repräsentationen fremder Nationen und Kulturen in der Literatur
O'Sullivan, E., 2007, Beziehungskulturen. Faulstich, W. (ed.). München [u.a.]: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 166-183 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research