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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Over here and over there: das Deutschlandbild in der britischen Literatur vor und nach der Wende
O'Sullivan, E., 2010, Grenzenlos: Mauerfall und Wende in (Kinder- und Jugend-)Literatur und Medien. Dettmar, U. & Oetken, M. (eds.). Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag, p. 277-296 20 p. (Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte [Dritte Folge]; vol. 279).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Historical dictionary of children's literature
O'Sullivan, E., 2010, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 372 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
O'Sullivan, E. & Rösler, D., 2010, Metzler Lexikon Fremdsprachendidaktik. Surkamp, C. (ed.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 129-131 3 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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Stereotyp
O'Sullivan, E. & Rösler, D., 2010, Metzler Lexikon Fremdsprachendidaktik. Surkamp, C. (ed.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 298 1 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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Syngritikē paidikē logotechnia: basismenē sto biblio tes Kinderliterasche Kobaratistik
O'Sullivan, E., 2010, Thessalonikē u.a.: Epikentro. 429 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Pinocchio goes postmodern: perils of a puppet in the United States, Richard Wunderlich and Thomas J. Morrissey, Routledge, 2008
O'Sullivan, E., 12.2009, In: International Research in Children's Literature. 2, 2, p. 291-292 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Narratology meets translation studies, or, the voice of the translator in children's literature
O'Sullivan, E., 2006, The Translation of Children's Literature: a reader. Lathey, G. (ed.). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters , p. 98 -109 12 p. (Topics in translation; no. 31).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Losses and gains in translation: some remarks on the translation of humour in the books of Aidan Chambers
O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Reading the novels of Aidan Chambers. Chambers, N. (ed.). Stroud: Thimble Press, p. 111-134 24 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Oscar Wilde, "Der glückliche Prinz und andere Märchen"
Drews, J. & O'Sullivan, E., 2010, Wilde, Oscar: Der glückliche Prinz und andere Märchen. Zoozmann, R. (ed.). Frankfurt, M.: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, p. 171-172 2 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Translating Pictures: the interaction of pictures and words in the translation of picture books
O'Sullivan, E., 2006, The translation of children's literature: a reader. Lathey, G. (ed.). Clevedon [u.a.]: Multilingual Matters , p. 113-121 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Children's Literature Global and Local: Social and Aesthetic Perspectives ; [selected papers from the 16th biennal congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL), held in Kristiansand, Norway in 2003]
O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Reynolds, K. (ed.) & Romoren, R. (ed.), 2005, Oslo: Novus. 301 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research
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Translating pictures (1999)
O'Sullivan, E., 2008, Considering children's literature: A Reader. Schwenke Wyile, A. (ed.). Peterborough, Ontario [u.a.]: Broadview Press, p. 117-126 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Oscar Wilde, The happy prince and other tales
Drews, J. & O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Vil-Z. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart [u.a.]: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 17. p. 429-430 2 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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In zwei Sprachen erzählen
O'Sullivan, E., 2006, In: Buch&Maus. 2, p. 2-4 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Kenneth Grahame, The wind in the willows
Dittmar, W. & O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Gaa - Hah. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart [u.a.]: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 6. p. 527 1 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research