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).
- Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Einfachheit in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Ein Gewinn für den Fremdsprachenunterricht
Burwitz-Melzer, E. (ed.) & O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), 2016, Wien: Praesens Verlag. 212 p. (Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Sprachenunterricht; vol. 3)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children’s Literature: From the Enlightenment to the Present Day
O'Sullivan, E. (ed.) & Immel, A. (ed.), 09.2017, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 268 p. (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Komik in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Subversivität und Vergnügen im Fremdsprachenunterricht
Burwitz-Melzer, E. (ed.), Caspari, D. (ed.) & O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), 18.12.2018, Wien: Praesens Verlag. 211 p. (Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Sprachenunterricht; vol. 6)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
- Compendium/lecture notes › Education
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Phantastische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
O'Sullivan, E. & Loidl, S., 2013, Wien: STUBE. 31 p. (Spektrum; no. 08)Research output: Books and anthologies › Compendium/lecture notes › Education
- Conference proceedings › 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
- Monographs › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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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 im Fremdsprachenunterricht
O'Sullivan, E. & Rösler, D., 2013, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. 230 p. (Stauffenburg Einführungen; vol. 23)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › 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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کتاب ادبیات تطبیقی کودکان [Comparative Children's Literature]
O'Sullivan, E., 2020, Teheran: Kanun-e Parvaresh. 352 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
- Monographs › Research › Peer-reviewed
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Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
O'Sullivan, E., 2023, 2 ed. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowmann & Littlefield . 409 p. (Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Poetik der Nation: Englishness in der englischen Romantik
Köhler, U. K., 26.09.2019, Leiden/Boston: Brill Rodopi. 254 p. (Studia Imagologica; vol. 25)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
- Special Journal issue › Research
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1968: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2018
Dettmar, U. (ed.), von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.) & Tomkowiak, I. (ed.), 2018, Frankfurt am Main: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 199 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2018)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Fakt, Fake und Fiktion: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2019
von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.), Staiger, M. (ed.) & Tomkowiak, I. (ed.), 01.12.2019, Frankfurt am Main: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 220 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2019)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Flucht und Migration: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2017
Dettmar, U. (ed.), von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.) & Tomkowiak, I. (ed.), 2017, Frankfurt am Main: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 233 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2017)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Genre(s): Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2023
von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), Lötscher, C. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.) & Stemmann, A. (ed.), 01.12.2023, Frankfurt: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 169 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2023)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Klänge: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung | GKJF 2021
von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), Lötscher, C. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.) & Tomkowiak, I. (ed.), 01.12.2021, Frankfurt: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 186 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2021)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Natur schreiben: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2022
von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), Lötscher, C. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.) & Tomkowiak, I. (ed.), 2022, Frankfurt: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 247 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2022)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Träume: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung | GKJF 2020
von Glasenapp, G. (ed.), O'Sullivan, E. (ed.), Roeder, C. (ed.) & Tomkowiak, I. (ed.), 2020, Frankfurt am Main: Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung. 193 p. (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung; vol. 2020)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
- Article in conference proceedings › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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At the periphery of the periphery: children's literature, global and local
O'Sullivan, E., 2007, Global fragments: (dis)orientation in the new world order. Bartels, A. & Wiemann, D. (eds.). Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 241-258 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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German Children's Literature Planting a Hope
O'Sullivan, E., 2014, Literature Planting Dreams in Children: Papers presented at the 3rd World Children's Literature Convention in Changwon. 8-12 August 2014. p. 206-217 12 p. (Publications of the Asian Children's Literature Convention).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research