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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Repräsentationen eigener und fremder Kulturen in der (Kinder)Literatur
O'Sullivan, E., 2007, Dialoge zwischen den Kulturen. Honnef-Becker, I. (ed.). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, p. 127-144 18 p. (Diskussionsforum Deutsch ; vol. 24).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › 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
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).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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Meine Sprache wohnt woanders: Sprache als Heimat in Kinderliteratur und Kindheitsautobiographien
O'Sullivan, E., 2008, In: Kjl & m forschung.schule.bibliothek. 60, 4, p. 13-22 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › 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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Writing for the rising generation, British fiction for young people, 1672 - 1839
O'Sullivan, E., 2005, In: Anglia. 123, 3, p. 526-528 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Der Übersetzer als Performer: Harry Rowohlt erhält den Sonderpreis des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises 2005 für sein übersetzerisches Gesamtwerk
O'Sullivan, E., 2005, In: JuLit. 31, 4, p. 8-14 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Comparative children's literature
O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Abingdon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 210 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book