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).
- 2008
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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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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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Zur Verortung des Bösen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
O'Sullivan, E., 2008, Das Böse heute: Formen und Funktionen. Faulstich, W. (ed.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 101-111 11 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › 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
- 2009
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Barrie, James Matthew: Biogramm
O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 2. p. 143 1 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › 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
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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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Edward Lear, A book of nonsense
Feest, C. F. & O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Kes - Len. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart [u.a.]: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 9. p. 744 1 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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Grahame, Kenneth: Biogramm
O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 6. p. 527 1 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan or The boy who would not grow up
Gebsattel, J. & O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Bal - Bot. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart [u.a.]: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 2. p. 143-144 2 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research