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).

  1. Published

    Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Deutschunterricht

    O'Sullivan, E. & Rösler, D., 2002, In: Fremdsprache Deutsch. 27, p. 5-9 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  2. Published

    Kinder- und Jugendliteratur auch im Deutsch als Fremdsprache-Unterricht für Erwachsene?

    O'Sullivan, E. & Rösler, D., 2011, Deutsch bewegt: Entwicklungen in der Auslandsgermanistik und Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache : Dokumentation der Plenarvorträge. Barkowski, H., Demmig, S., Funk, H. & Würz, U. (eds.). Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, p. 315-325 10 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

    O'Sullivan, E. & Rösler, D., 2010, Metzler Lexikon Fremdsprachendidaktik. Surkamp, C. (ed.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 129-131 3 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  4. Published

    Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

    O'Sullivan, E. & Rösler, D., 2017, Metzler Lexikon Fremdsprachendidaktik: Ansätze-Methoden-Grundbegriffe. Surkamp, C. (ed.). 2 ed. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 155-157 3 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  5. Published

    Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

    O'Sullivan, E. & Rösler, D., 07.2019, Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Literaturdidaktik. Lütge, C. (ed.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 302-318 17 p. (Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  6. Published

    Kenneth Grahame, The wind in the willows

    Dittmar, W. & O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Gaa - Hah. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart [u.a.]: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 6. p. 527 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  7. Published

    Jonathan Swift, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships

    O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Sha-Szy. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart [u.a.]: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 15. p. 793-794 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  8. Published

    Jonathan Swift, A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people of Ireland from beeing a burden to their parents or the country, and for making them beneficial to the public

    O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Sha - Szy. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart [u.a.]: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 15. p. 795 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  9. Published

    Jenny and Abigail on the rocks: censorship and children's literature in Britain

    O'Sullivan, E., 2008, In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures. 15, 2, p. 109-120 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan or The boy who would not grow up

    Gebsattel, J. & O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Bal - Bot. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart [u.a.]: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 2. p. 143-144 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

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