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).
- Journal articles › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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The Same But Different. Ambivalent Internationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Children's Books.
O'Sullivan, E., 01.01.2011, In: The Princeton University Library Chronicle. 72, 3, p. 683-712 29 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Wenn sich Subjekte und Objekte des Lachens begegnen. Ein kurzer Einstieg anlässlich des Komik-Forums des ersten White Ravens Festivals in der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek.
O'Sullivan, E., 2010, In: Das Bücherschloss. p. 80-85 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Zuhause im fremden Text. Sprachliche Identität in Übersetzungen.
O'Sullivan, E., 2013, In: 1000 und 1 Buch. 1, p. 4-13 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
- Critical reviews › Transfer
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Coghlan, Valerie/Parkinson Siobhan (Eds.): Irish Children's Writers and Illustrators 1986-2006. Dublin: Church of Ireland College of Education Publications/Children's Books Ireland 2007 and Thompson, Mary Shine/Coghlan, Valerie (Eds.): Divided Worlds. Studies in children's literature.Dublin: Four Courts Press 2007.
O'Sullivan, E., 22.09.2007, In: The Irish Times. Weekend Review, p. 10 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Transfer
- Critical reviews › Research
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Beatrix Potter, writing in code: Beatrix Potter / M. Daphne Kutzer
O'Sullivan, E., 2005, In: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 242, 1, p. 428-430 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Children’s Literature On The Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations. Edited by Nora Maguire and Beth Rodgers
O'Sullivan, E., 01.09.2014, In: Inis. 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Die Geschichte(n) gefalteter Bücher: Leporellos, Livres-Accordéon und Folded Panoramas in Literatur und bildender Kunst. Ed. Christoph Benjamin Schulz. Hildesheim: Olms, 2019
O'Sullivan, E., 26.05.2021, In: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 173, 1, p. 199-201 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Divided Worlds: Studies in Children’s Literature.Edited by Mary Shine Thompson andValerie Coghlan. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 224 pages
O'Sullivan, E., 01.07.2008, In: International Research in Children's Literature. 1, 1, p. 103-104 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Ent-Fernungen, Fremdwahrnehmung und Kulturtransfer in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur seit 1945, Bd. 1, Fremdwahrnehmung, zur Thematisierung kultureller Alterität in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur seit 1945: Fremdwahrnehmung / Gina Weinkauff
O'Sullivan, E., 2007, In: Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. p. 145-148 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Gillian Lathey. The role of translators in children's literature: Invisible storytellers. New York: Routledge, 2010. Reviewed by Emer O'Sullivan.
O'Sullivan, E., 2013, In: Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. 25, 2, p. 281-285 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research