Karen Leeder

Karen Leeder is a leading English scholar of German culture.[1][2] She studied German at Oxford University and the University of Hamburg. She taught at Emmanuel College, Cambridge for three years before taking up a post at New College, Oxford in 1993. Her interests include post-war German literature, the literature of the GDR, German poetry in translation, etc. She is an award-winning translator, and she has won prizes for her translations of Volker Braun, Evelyn Schlag and Ulrike Almut Sandig. She has published widely on German culture, including several volumes on Rilke and Brecht. With Christopher Young and Michael Eskin, she is commissioning editor for the de Gruyter series of Companions to Contemporary German Culture.

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