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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Comparative Children's Literature
O'Sullivan, E., 01.2011, In: PMLA . 126, 1, p. 189-196 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Eine Maus und ein Kaninchen als Identifikationsfiguren für das Ausleben des Verbotenen: Dorothy Kilners „The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse“ (1783) und Beatrix Potters „Peter Rabbit“ (1902)
Köhler, U. K., 2021, In: Kjl & m forschung.schule.bibliothek. 73, 4, p. 28-33 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Gezähmtes Naturkind und dankbarer Sklave. Figurenstereotypen in den Harry Potter-Romanen. Aus der Arbeit des Instituts und der Bibliothek für Kinder- und Jugendbuchforschung.
Köhler, U. K., 2005, In: Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung Frankfurt. 2, 2, p. 20-24 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Imagined Geography: Strange Places and People in Children’s Literature
O'Sullivan, E., 06.2017, In: The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture. 10, 2, p. 1-32 32 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Imagology Meets Children's Literature
O'Sullivan, E., 01.07.2011, In: International Research in Children's Literature. 4, 1, p. 1-14 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Othering and Same-ing for the Young. Expanding the Theoretical and Material Horizons of Imagology with Children's Literature
O'Sullivan, E., 2023, In: CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society. 5, 1, p. 99-124 26 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Rose Blanche, Rose Blanca: a comparative view of a controversial picture book
O'Sullivan, E., 2008, In: Children's Literature Review. 126, p. 130-138 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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S is for Spaniard: the representation of foreign nations in ABCs and picturebooks
O'Sullivan, E., 12.2009, In: European Journal of English Studies. 13, 3, p. 333-349 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Talking to the Holy Spirit and Growling with the Bears: Singing Child Characters in Eighteenth-Century Hymn Books for Children
Köhler, U. K., 01.12.2021, In: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung . 2021, p. 36-50 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review