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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Phantastische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
O'Sullivan, E., 2009Research output: Non-textual form types › Data set › Education
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Around the World in a Jiffy: Humorous Treatments of Around-the-World Travel in German Children’s Books and Games
O'Sullivan, E., 01.10.2019, The World of Children: Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment. Lässig, S. & Weiß, A. (eds.). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, p. 203-227 25 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Discourses of Internationalism in Children’s Literature
O'Sullivan, E., 2017, Child autonomy and child governance in children's literature: Where Children Rule. Kelen, C. & Sundmark, B. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 30-42 13 p. (Children's literature and culture).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Englishness in German translations of Alice in Wonderland
O'Sullivan, E., 2016, Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology. van Doorslaer, L., Flynn, P. & Leerssen, J. (eds.). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 87-107 21 p. (Benjamins Translation Library; vol. 119).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Imagologie, kinderliterarische Komparatistik und Digital Humanities – mögliche Synergien
O'Sullivan, E., 01.01.2021, BildWissen – KinderBuch : Historische Sachliteratur für Kinder und Jugendliche und ihre digitale Analyse . Schmideler, S. & Helm, W. (eds.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 83-97 15 p. (Studien zu Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien; vol. 5).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Insularity and Internationalism: Between Local Production and the Global Marketplace
O'Sullivan, E., 01.01.2011, Irish Children's Literature and Culture: New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing. Coghlan, V. & O'Sullivan, K. (eds.). London, New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 183-196 14 p. (Children's Literature and Culture).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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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/works › Chapter › peer-review
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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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Toward a Production-Oriented Imagology
Köhler, U. K., 01.11.2022, New Perspectives on Imagology. Edtstadler, K., Folie, S. & Zocco, G. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 93-111 19 p. (Studia Imagologica; vol. 30).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Translation
O'Sullivan, E., 20.11.2023, The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture . Nelson, C., Wesseling, E. & Wu, A. M-Y. (eds.). New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 327-339 13 p. 27. (Routledge literature companions).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review