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).
- 2009
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Swift, Jonathan: Biogramm
O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Sha-Szy. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 15. p. 789 1 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Wertenbaker, Timerberlake: Biogramm
O'Sullivan, E., 2009, Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon: Vil-Z. Arnold, H. L. (ed.). 3 ed. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, Vol. 17. p. 350 1 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › 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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S is for Spaniard: the representation of foreign nations in ABCs and picturebooks
O'Sullivan, E., 12.2009, In: European Journal of English Studies. 13, 3, p. 333-349 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2010
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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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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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More than the sum of its parts? Synergy and picturebook translation
O'Sullivan, E., 2010, Écrire et traduire pour les enfants: voix, images et mots. Di Giovanni, E., Elefante, C. & Pederzoli, R. (eds.). Brüssel: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 133-148 15 p. (Recherches comparatives sur les livres et le multimedia d´enfance; vol. 3).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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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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