Karen Leeder#
| Membership Number: | 5357 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/karen-leeder |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0709-7963 |
| Twitter: | @karenleeder1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - 2017 Associate Head of Humanities Division, University of Oxford
- 2014 - 2015 Knowledge Exchange Fellow with Southbank Centre, London
- 2008 Professor of Modern German Literature, University of Oxford
- 2004 Reader in German, University of Oxford
- 2002 Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
- 1993 Faculty Lecturer in German, University of Oxford; Fellow and Tutor in German, New College, Oxford
- 1992 - 1993 University Lecturer in German, University of Cambridge
- 1990 - 1993 College Lecturer, Official Fellow in German, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- 1990 Junior Research Fellowship, The Queen's College, Oxford
- 1988 - 1990 FvS [now Alfred Toepfer]] Stiftung Fellowship
Fields of Scholarship
- Contemporary German poetry
- Modern German Literature
- Twentieth Century German German poetry
- Contemporary German Literature
- GDR Literature
Honours and Awards
- 2018 John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize For Translation
- 2017 Fellowship of Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
- 2016 English PEN New European Literature Translation Prize
- 2016 PEN America PEN Heim Award for Translation
- 2014 Robert Bosch Stiftung Award for translation, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
- 2013 Winner of Times Stephen Spender Prize
- 2011 Arts and Humanities Research Fellowship
- 2005 Winner of Schlegel-Tieck Prize Society of Authors, UK
- 2003 HEFCE Resources Special Paid Research Leave
- 2002 Writer in Residence at Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
- 2002 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship
- 1988 - 1990 FvS Stiftung [now Alfred Toepfer Stiftung] Fellowship
