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 Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › Not peer-reviewed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

    Translating pictures (1999)

    O'Sullivan, E., 2008, Considering children's literature: A Reader. Schwenke Wyile, A. (ed.). Peterborough, Ontario [u.a.]: Broadview Press, p. 117-126 10 p.

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  3. Published

    Ver- und Zurück-rückungen in und von "Alice in Wonderland"

    O'Sullivan, E., 2016, gorkicht im gemank. : Mediale und ästhetische Ver-rückungen (in) der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Lexe, H. (ed.). Wien: STUBE, p. 4-17 14 p. (fokus).

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  4. Published

    Zur Verortung des Bösen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

    O'Sullivan, E., 2008, Das Böse heute: Formen und Funktionen. Faulstich, W. (ed.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 101-111 11 p.

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  5. Published

    Zwischen Erziehung und Unterhaltung: zur Verortung der Kinderliteratur von Robinson der Jüngere bis Harry Potter

    O'Sullivan, E., 2006, Unterhaltungskultur. Faulstich, W. & Knop, K. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 147-166 20 p.

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  6. Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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    Barrie, James Matthew: Biogramm

    O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 2. p. 143 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

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    Boie, Kirsten

    O'Sullivan, E., 2006, The Oxford encyclopedia of children's literature: Vol. 1: Aamu - Duan. Zipes, J. D. (ed.). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, p. 178-179 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  9. Published

    Edward Lear, A book of nonsense

    Feest, C. F. & O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Kes - Len. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart [u.a.]: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 9. p. 744 1 p.

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    Grahame, Kenneth: Biogramm

    O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 6. p. 527 1 p.

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    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.

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  12. 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.

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