Prof. Dr. Emer O’Sullivan was 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.
- 2004 - 2025: Professor of English Literature at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
- 2018 - 2025: Member of the Board of Trustees of Leuphana University Lüneburg („Stiftungsrat“).
- 2018 - 2025: Dean of Studies for the Leuphana Semester and Complementary Studies.
Since2017 - 2025: Personal tutor for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.- 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.
- 1985 - 1987: Researcher in a project at the Free University Berlin
- 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