Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature and Fellow and Tutor in German at New College, Oxford. She is the founder of the Mediating Modern Poetry project which came out of an Oxford University TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellowship in 2014-2015. Her research specialism is in modern and contemporary German literarture especially poetry (see her website for details http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/karen-leeder).
Recent publications include recent publications include Durs Grünbein: A Companion, ed. with Michael Eskin and Christopher Young (2013); Figuring Lateness: Lateness in Modern German Culture (2015) , Re-reading East Germany: The Literature and Film of the GDR (2017) and Ulrike Drasner. A Companion (2018). she is also a prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature including Evelyn Schlag, Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2004) for which she won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for Translation (2005) and Volker Braun, Rubble Flora, with David Constantine, which was commended for the Popescu Prize (2015). She was awarded an English PEN and an American PEN Heim grant in 2016 for translations of Ulrike Almut Sandig. Karen has published reviews in a variety of newspapers and journals as well as appearing regularly on radio and television.