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. Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    Losses and gains in translation: some remarks on the translation of humour in the books of Aidan Chambers

    O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Reading the novels of Aidan Chambers. Chambers, N. (ed.). Stroud: Thimble Press, p. 111-134 24 p.

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  3. Published

    More than the sum of its parts? Synergy and picturebook translation

    O'Sullivan, E., 2010, Écrire et traduire pour les enfants: voix, images et mots. Di Giovanni, E., Elefante, C. & Pederzoli, R. (eds.). Brüssel: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 133-148 15 p. (Recherches comparatives sur les livres et le multimedia d´enfance; vol. 3).

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  4. Published

    Narratology meets translation studies, or, the voice of the translator in children's literature

    O'Sullivan, E., 2006, Children's literature: Vol. 4: International and comparative. Hunt, P. (ed.). London [u.a.]: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 145-157 13 p. (Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies).

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  5. Published

    Narratology meets translation studies, or, the voice of the translator in children's literature

    O'Sullivan, E., 2006, The Translation of Children's Literature: a reader. Lathey, G. (ed.). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters , p. 98 -109 12 p. (Topics in translation; no. 31).

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  6. Published

    Oscar Wilde, "Der glückliche Prinz und andere Märchen"

    Drews, J. & O'Sullivan, E., 2010, Wilde, Oscar: Der glückliche Prinz und andere Märchen. Zoozmann, R. (ed.). Frankfurt, M.: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, p. 171-172 2 p.

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  7. Published

    Over here and over there: das Deutschlandbild in der britischen Literatur vor und nach der Wende

    O'Sullivan, E., 2010, Grenzenlos: Mauerfall und Wende in (Kinder- und Jugend-)Literatur und Medien. Dettmar, U. & Oetken, M. (eds.). Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag, p. 277-296 20 p. (Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte [Dritte Folge]; vol. 279).

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    Picture books in teacher training: creative writing and intercultural learning with Das Land der Ecken and Die Englandreise

    O'Sullivan, E. & Rösler, D., 2005, Niemals zu früh und selten zu spät: Fremdsprachenunterricht in Schule und Erwachsenenbildung: Festschrift für Jürgen Quetz. Burwitz-Melzer, E. & Solmecke, G. (eds.). Berlin: Cornelsen-Verlag, p. 161-169 9 p.

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    Repräsentationen eigener und fremder Kulturen in der (Kinder)Literatur

    O'Sullivan, E., 2007, Dialoge zwischen den Kulturen. Honnef-Becker, I. (ed.). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, p. 127-144 18 p. (Diskussionsforum Deutsch ; vol. 24).

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    Sprachliche Identität in Übersetzungen

    O'Sullivan, E., 2016, Kulturelle Austauschprozesse in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Zur genrespezifischen Transformation von Themen, Stoffen und Motiven im medialen Kontext . Mairbäurl, G. & Seibert, E. (eds.). Wien: Praesens Verlag, p. 33-55 23 p. (Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung in Österreich; vol. 17).

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  11. Published

    Translating Pictures: the interaction of pictures and words in the translation of picture books

    O'Sullivan, E., 2006, The translation of children's literature: a reader. Lathey, G. (ed.). Clevedon [u.a.]: Multilingual Matters , p. 113-121 9 p.

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