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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Response to "Review of Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature" Bookbird 50.1 (January 2012) by Bridget Carrington.
O'Sullivan, E., 29.01.2013, In: Bookbird: Journal of International Children's Literature. 51, 1, p. 101-101 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Rezension von Lampariello, Sandro: Literarisches Übersetzen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im 20. Jahrhundert am Beispiel von Lewis Carrolls Aliceʼs Adventures in Wonderland. – Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017
O'Sullivan, E., 2018, In: Germanistik. 59, 3-4, p. 750-751 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Rezension von Stichnothe, Hadassah: Der Initiationsroman in der deutsch- und englischsprachigen Kinderliteratur. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017. 300 S. Zugl.: Dissertation, Universität Tübingen, 2016
O'Sullivan, E., 2018, In: Germanistik. 59, 1-2, p. 164 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Rose Blanche, Rosa Weiss, Rosa Bianca: A comparative view of a controversial picture book
O'Sullivan, E., 01.04.2005, In: The Lion and the Unicorn. 29, 2, p. 152-170 19 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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Rose Blanche, Rose Blanca: a comparative view of a controversial picture book
O'Sullivan, E., 2008, In: Children's Literature Review. 126, p. 130-138 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Sabine Bermel: Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels und Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in deutscher Sprache als Kinder- und Jugendbuch
O'Sullivan, E., 2009, In: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 246, 1, p. 155-157 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature: An Introduction
O'Sullivan, E. & Immel, A., 2017, Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature : From the Enlightenment to the Present Day. O'Sullivan, E. & Immel, A. (eds.). London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-25 25 p. (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Shifting images: Germans in postwar British children's fiction
O'Sullivan, E., 2008, Under fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War. Goodenough, E. & Immel, A. (eds.). Detroit: Wayne State University Press, p. 77-89 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Shih-Wen Chen: Representations of China in British Children’s Fiction, 1851- 1911 (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present). Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiii + 203.
O'Sullivan, E., 2014, In: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 251, 2, p. 447-449 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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S is for Spaniard: the representation of foreign nations in ABCs and picturebooks
O'Sullivan, E., 12.2009, In: European Journal of English Studies. 13, 3, p. 333-349 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review