New Release 2010

Historical Dictionary of Children’s Literature. Lanham, MA, Toronto, Plymouth: Scarecrow Press 2010
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New Release 2010

Comparative Children's Literature - Translation into Greek by Petros Panaou and Elena Xeni : Συγκριτική παιδική λογοτεχνία.  Thessaloniki: Epikentro 2010

Comparative Children's Literature. London: Routledge Paperback edition 2009

Professor of English Literature

Member of the Institute of English Studies
Member of the Institute of History and Literary Cultures

Prof. Dr. Emer O’Sullivan is Professor of English Literature at the Institute of English Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Her fields of interest 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). She is the author, together with Dietmar Rösler, of eight genuinely bilingual children's books.

Vita

Employment and Positions

• Since 2004: Professor of English Literature at Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• 2001 - 2004: Associate Professor of German and comparative children`s literature at the Institute for Children's Literature Research at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/M.
• 2000 - 2001: Visiting Professor of German literature, media and didactics at Essen University
• 1990 - 1997: Assistant Professor of German and comparative children`s literature at the Institute for Children's Literature Research at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/M.
• 1987 - 1989: Researcher in a project on the image of Germany in British children`s fiction at the Departmen of German, Freie Universität Berlin.

Education and Degrees

• 1999: Habilitation (German post-doctoral thesis for qualification at professorial level), Comparative Literature. Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M.
• 1987: Ph.D. German Literature. On the aesthetic potential of national stereotypes in literary texts. Freie Universität Berlin.
• 1984: M.A. German and English. Freie Universität Berlin.
• 1980: B.A. in English, German and Spanish. University College Dublin.

Honours and Awards

• 2011: Prize for innovative teaching, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.
• 2008/9: Princeton University Library Research Grant.
• 2008: Prize for innovative teaching, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.
• 2007: The Children's Literature Association Book Award for Comparative Children's Literature.
• 2001:The International Research Society for Children's Literature Award for Outstanding Research for Kinderliterarische Komparatistik.

Current professional and academic association memberships

• International Comparative Literature Association/Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée (ICLA)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
• Deutscher Anglistenverband
• International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL)
• Children's Literature Association (ChLA)
• Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung
• Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur/International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)
• Internationales Institut für Jugendliteratur und Leseforschung, Vienna
• Children's Books Ireland

International Boards and Committees

• Member of the Children's Literature Association Publications Advisory Board
• Member of the Advisory Board of the journal International Research in Children’s Literature (Edinburgh University Press)
• Member of the Editorial Board for the series Irish-German Studies (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier)
• Member of the Editorial Review Board of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature
• Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media 
• Member of the Advisory Board of the International Literature Festival Berlin (ilf) 
• Chairwoman of the jury for the German state prize for the life's work of a translator of children's literature (Sonderpreisjury des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises für das Gesamtwerk Übersetzung) 1994, 1999 and 2005.
• Member of the Board of the International Research Society for Children's Literature 2001-2005, Vice-President from 2003-2005
• Member of the scientific committee of ANILIJ (Asociación Nacional de Investigación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil)
• Member of the scientific committee of Strenæ. Recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l'enfance
  
• Reviewer for international publishers (e.g. Routledge, Purdue University Press, John Benjamins)
• Peer Reviewer for a range of journals, including Meta: Translators' Journal (Canada), Barnboken (Sweden), Irish-German Studies, IRCL, Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (Canada), Libri & Liberi