Karen Leeder

Karen Leeder (born 1962)[1] is a British writer, translator and scholar of German culture.

[3] In 2021 she was elected as Schwarz-Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature,[4] a position she took up at The Queen's College, Oxford in 2022.

[citation needed] In 2021 she was elected as Schwarz-Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature,[4] a position she took up at The Queen's College, Oxford in 2022.

[9][citation needed] She has published widely on German culture, including several volumes on Rilke and Brecht.

With Christopher Young and Michael Eskin, she was commissioning editor for the de Gruyter series of Companions to Contemporary German Culture (2012–2022).