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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German 1963: Back-translation of a passage from the German translation of Alice in Wonderland of 1963. With notes by Emer O'Sullivan
O'Sullivan, E. & Brodesser, B., 2015, Alice in a World of Wonderlands : The Translations of Lewis Carroll's Masterpiece ; Back-Translations. Lindseth, J. A. & Tannenbaum, A. (eds.). 1 ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, Vol. 2. p. 228-231 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Komik im (kinder)literaturtheoretischen Diskurs
O'Sullivan, E., 18.12.2018, Komik in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Subversivität und Vergnügen im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Burwitz-Melzer, E., Caspari, D. & O'Sullivan, E. (eds.). Wien: Praesens Verlag, p. 19-42 24 p. (Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Sprachenunterricht; vol. 6).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Make it Irish! Reprints and hibernicizations for (young) Irish readers in eighteenth-century Dublin.
O'Sullivan, E., 15.08.2023, Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters.. Appel, C., Christensen, N. & Grenby, M. O. (eds.). 1 ed. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 226–249 24 p. (Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition; vol. 15).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Miss Zimmermann and her Successors: German Versions of Alice in Wonderland
O'Sullivan, E., 2015, Alice in a World of Wonderlands: The Translations of Lewis Carroll's Masterpiece. Vol 1: Essays. Lindseth, J. A. & Tannenbaum, A. (eds.). 1 ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, Vol. 1. p. 259-269 11 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Picturing the World for Children: Early Nineteenth-Century Images of Foreign Nations
O'Sullivan, E., 09.2017, Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children’s Literature: From the Enlightenment to the Present Day. O'Sullivan, E. & Immel, A. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 51-70 20 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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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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Strange signs. Invented languages from alienation to zany
O'Sullivan, E., 2019, Langue(s) et littérature de jeunesse. Benert, B. & Grutman, R. (eds.). Zürich: LIT Verlag, p. 211-231 21 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Warren Weaver's Alice in Many Tongues: A Critical Appraisal
O'Sullivan, E., 2015, Alice in a World of Wonderlands - The Translations of Lewis Carroll's Masterpiece. 3 Vols.: Vol. 1:Essays. Lindseth, J. A. & Tannenbaum, A. (eds.). 1 ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, Vol. 1. p. 29-41 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Was wirkt? Der Plakatparcours - ein Erfahrungsbericht
Hanemann, N. & Woltjen, G., 2009, Kultur | Natur. Kunst und Philosophie im Kontext der Stadtentwicklung: Textband. Haarmann, A. & Lemke, H. (eds.). Berlin: Jovis Verlag, p. 187-198 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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插畫與跨符號翻譯:無稽詩文的視覺呈現
O'Sullivan, E., 2022, 跨界.成長.間/介: 當代兒童文學研究思潮. Mei-Ying Wu, A. & Chia-Yen Ku, C. (eds.). National Cheng Kung University, p. 185-207 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Comparative Children's Literature
O'Sullivan, E., 2011, Children's Literature Studies. A Research Handbook. O. Grenby, M. & Reynolds, K. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 142-150 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Education › peer-review
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Der implizite Übersetzer in der Kinderliteratur: Ein Beitrag zur Theorie des kinderliterarischen Übersetzens
O'Sullivan, E., 2014, Text-Notationen: Übersetzung und Mehrsprachigkeit im Bereich der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur . Lexe, H. & Cevela, I. (eds.). 2. ed. Wien: STUBE, p. 4-13 10 p. (Fernkurs Kinder- und Jugendliteratur : Projekte).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Other › Research
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Beatrix Potter, writing in code: Beatrix Potter / M. Daphne Kutzer
O'Sullivan, E., 2005, In: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 242, 1, p. 428-430 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Children’s Literature On The Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations. Edited by Nora Maguire and Beth Rodgers
O'Sullivan, E., 01.09.2014, In: Inis. 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Die Geschichte(n) gefalteter Bücher: Leporellos, Livres-Accordéon und Folded Panoramas in Literatur und bildender Kunst. Ed. Christoph Benjamin Schulz. Hildesheim: Olms, 2019
O'Sullivan, E., 26.05.2021, In: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 173, 1, p. 199-201 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Divided Worlds: Studies in Children’s Literature.Edited by Mary Shine Thompson andValerie Coghlan. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 224 pages
O'Sullivan, E., 01.07.2008, In: International Research in Children's Literature. 1, 1, p. 103-104 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › 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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Gillian Lathey. The role of translators in children's literature: Invisible storytellers. New York: Routledge, 2010. Reviewed by Emer O'Sullivan.
O'Sullivan, E., 2013, In: Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. 25, 2, p. 281-285 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Literatur und Gefühl. Rezension von Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults. Moving Stories, ed. Karen Coats and Gretchen Papazian (Benjamins 2023).
O'Sullivan, E., 01.10.2023, In: JuLit. 49, 3, p. 49-50 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research