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. Special Journal issue › Research
  2. Published

    Flucht und Migration: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2017

    Dettmar, U. (ed.), von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.) & Tomkowiak, I. (ed.), 2017, Frankfurt am Main: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 233 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2017)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  3. Published

    Genre(s): Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2023

    von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), Lötscher, C. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.) & Stemmann, A. (ed.), 01.12.2023, Frankfurt: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 169 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2023)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  4. Published

    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 anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  5. Published

    Natur schreiben: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2022

    von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), Lötscher, C. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.) & Tomkowiak, I. (ed.), 2022, Frankfurt: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 247 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2022)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  6. Published

    Träume: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung | GKJF 2020

    von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.) & Tomkowiak, I. (ed.), 2020, Frankfurt am Main: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 193 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2020)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  7. Monographs › Research › Peer-reviewed
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    Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature

    O'Sullivan, E., 2023, 2 ed. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowmann & Littlefield . 409 p. (Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Poetik der Nation: Englishness in der englischen Romantik

    Köhler, U. K., 26.09.2019, Leiden/Boston: Brill Rodopi. 254 p. (Studia Imagologica; vol. 25)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  10. Monographs › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  11. Published

    Historical dictionary of children's literature

    O'Sullivan, E., 2010, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 372 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  12. Published

    Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht

    O'Sullivan, E. & Rösler, D., 2013, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. 230 p. (Stauffenburg Einführungen; vol. 23)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  13. Published

    Syngritikē paidikē logotechnia: basismenē sto biblio tes Kinderliterasche Kobaratistik

    O'Sullivan, E., 2010, Thessalonikē u.a.: Epikentro. 429 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch