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 › Peer-reviewed
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    Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature: An Introduction

    O'Sullivan, E. & Immel, A., 2017, Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature : From the Enlightenment to the Present Day. O'Sullivan, E. & Immel, A. (eds.). London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-25 25 p. (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature).

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    Shifting images: Germans in postwar British children's fiction

    O'Sullivan, E., 2008, Under fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War. Goodenough, E. & Immel, A. (eds.). Detroit: Wayne State University Press, p. 77-89 13 p.

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    Strange signs. Invented languages from alienation to zany

    O'Sullivan, E., 2019, Langue(s) et littérature de jeunesse. Benert, B. & Grutman, R. (eds.). Zürich: LIT Verlag, p. 211-231 21 p.

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    Warren Weaver's Alice in Many Tongues: A Critical Appraisal

    O'Sullivan, E., 2015, Alice in a World of Wonderlands - The Translations of Lewis Carroll's Masterpiece. 3 Vols.: Vol. 1:Essays. Lindseth, J. A. & Tannenbaum, A. (eds.). 1 ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, Vol. 1. p. 29-41 13 p.

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    Was wirkt? Der Plakatparcours - ein Erfahrungsbericht

    Hanemann, N. & Woltjen, G., 2009, Kultur | Natur. Kunst und Philosophie im Kontext der Stadtentwicklung: Textband. Haarmann, A. & Lemke, H. (eds.). Berlin: Jovis Verlag, p. 187-198 12 p.

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    插畫與跨符號翻譯:無稽詩文的視覺呈現

    O'Sullivan, E., 2022, 跨界.成長.間/介: 當代兒童文學研究思潮. Mei-Ying Wu, A. & Chia-Yen Ku, C. (eds.). National Cheng Kung University, p. 185-207 23 p.

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  8. Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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    Alice: Metamorphosen einer weltliterarischen Figur

    O'Sullivan, E., 2019, Bilder zu "Klassikern". Dettmar, U., Pecher, C. M. & Anker, M. (eds.). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, p. 67-89 23 p.

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    Children's literature

    O'Sullivan, E., 2007, Imagology: The Cultural Construction and Literary Representation of National Characters : a Critical Survey. Beller, M. & Leerssen, J. (eds.). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Rodopi, p. 290-294 5 p. (Studia Imagologica; vol. 13).

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    De "la république universelle de l'enfance" à la globalisation de la culture des enfants: une perspective comparatiste de la littérature pour la jeunesse

    O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Rencontres européennes de la littérature pour la jeunesse: Actes du colloque organisé à la BNF les 27 et 28 Novembre 2008. Beau, N. & Lorant-Jolly, A. (eds.). [Paris ]: Bibliothèque Nationale de France / Centre national de la littérature pour la jeunesse - La Joie par les livres, p. 21-31 11 p.

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    Der Zauberlehrling im Internat: Harry Potter im Kontext der britischen Literaturtradition

    O'Sullivan, E., 2006, Harry Potter - ein Literatur- und Medienereignis im Blickpunkt interdisziplinärer Forschung. Garbe, C. & Philipp, M. (eds.). Hamburg: LIT Verlag, p. 27-48 22 p. (Literatur - Medien - Rezeption : Studien zur Rezeption und Wirkung von Literatur und Medien ; vol. 1).

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    Does Pinocchio have an Italian passport? What is specifically national and what is international about classics of children's literature

    O'Sullivan, E., 2006, The translation of children's literature: A Reader. Lathey, G. (ed.). Clevedon [u.a.]: Multilingual Matters , p. 146-162 17 p.

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    Ein übersetztes Rezept ohne Original.

    O'Sullivan, E., 11.12.2023, Kulinarische Welten der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur.: Delikatessen aus erster Hand - eine Freundschaftsgabe für Carola Pohlmann.. Putjenter, S. (ed.). 11 ed. Berlin: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, p. 190-191 2 p.

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    Erich und die Übersetzer. Eine komparatistische Analyse der Übersetzungen von Kästerns Kinderromanen.

    O'Sullivan, E., 2005, "Laboratorium Vielseitigkeit". Zur Literatur der Weimarer Republik.: Festschrift für Helga Karrenbrock zum 60. Geburtstag.. Josting, P. & Fähnders, W. (eds.). Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, p. 393-411 19 p.

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    From the particular to the universal (and back again?): Irish children's literature in Germany

    O'Sullivan, E., 2014, Ireland and the Irish in Germany – Reception and Perception. O’Reilly, C. & O’Regan, V. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 103-124 22 p.

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    German and Irish childrens's literature: a comparative perspective

    O'Sullivan, E., 2008, Intercultural connections within German and Irish children's literature. Tebbutt, S. & Fischer, J. (eds.). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, p. 25-45 21 p. (Irish German studies; vol. 3).

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    Idylle und Ernüchterung: eine imagologische Analyse des Irlandbilds in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

    O'Sullivan, E., 2007, Horizonte verschmelzen: zur Hermeneutik der Vermittlung ; Hartmut Eggert zum 70. Geburtstag. Brittnacher, H. R. (ed.). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, p. 117-128 12 p.

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    Introduction: Children's Literature Global and Local

    O'Sullivan, E., Reynolds, K. & Romoren, R., 2005, Children's Literature Global and Local: Social and Aesthetic Perspectives. O'Sullivan, E., Reynolds, K. & Romoren, R. (eds.). Oslo: Novus Press, p. 11-22 12 p.

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    Learning about European neighbours in primary school teacher training: tasks for developing linguistic and cultural awareness

    O'Sullivan, E., 2005, Aufgabenorientierung im Fremdsprachenunterricht: Festschrift für Michael K. Legutke.. Müller-Hartmann, A. (ed.). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, p. 433-444 12 p.

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    L'internationalisme, la république universelle de l'enfance et l'univers de la littérature d'enfance

    O'Sullivan, E., 2006, Le livre pour enfants: regards critiques offerts à Isabelle Nières-Chevrel. Presses universitaires de Rennes , p. 23-36 19 p.

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    Literaturbeziehungen: Repräsentationen fremder Nationen und Kulturen in der Literatur

    O'Sullivan, E., 2007, Beziehungskulturen. Faulstich, W. (ed.). München [u.a.]: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 166-183 18 p.

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