Biography

Alan Leidner holds a PhD in German Language and Literature from the University of Virginia.  His publications include work on Schiller, Goethe, J. M. R Lenz, F. M. Klinger, and Johann Kaspar Lavater.  

Since arriving at the University of Louisville, he has taught courses on the literary fairy tale, the Age of Goethe, German intellectual history, the nineteenth-century novel, and early modern and modern culture.  

Blackboard site for Dr. Leidner  

Research & Teaching Areas

The European Fairy Tale
Age of Goethe
German Intellectual History
Early Modern and Modern European Culture
Sturm und Drang