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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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
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L'internationalisme, la république universelle de l'enfance et l'univers de la littérature d'enfance
O'Sullivan, E., 2006, Le livre pour enfants: regards critiques offerts à Isabelle Nières-Chevrel. Presses universitaires de Rennes , p. 23-36 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Learning about European neighbours in primary school teacher training: tasks for developing linguistic and cultural awareness
O'Sullivan, E., 2005, Aufgabenorientierung im Fremdsprachenunterricht: Festschrift für Michael K. Legutke.. Müller-Hartmann, A. (ed.). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, p. 433-444 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Lear, Edward: Biogramm
O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Kes-Len. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 9. p. 744 1 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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Komparatistik
O'Sullivan, E., 2020, Handbuch Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Kurwinkel, T. & Schmerheim, P. (eds.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 334–342 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Komik in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Subversivität und Vergnügen im Fremdsprachenunterricht
Burwitz-Melzer, E. (ed.), Caspari, D. (ed.) & O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), 18.12.2018, Wien: Praesens Verlag. 211 p. (Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Sprachenunterricht; vol. 6)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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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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Klänge: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung | GKJF 2021
von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), Lötscher, C. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.) & Tomkowiak, I. (ed.), 01.12.2021, Frankfurt: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 186 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2021)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Kinder- und Jugendliteratur in der Ausbildung von Englischlehrern
O'Sullivan, E., 2008, In: Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen. 37, 1, p. 197-211 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht
O'Sullivan, E. & Rösler, D., 2013, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. 230 p. (Stauffenburg Einführungen; vol. 23)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research