Professor Jim Reed FBA

German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1987
Subjects
Modern languages

Current post

Taylor Professor Emeritus of the German Language and Literature, University of Oxford

Past appointments

St John's College University of Oxford Taylor Professor Emeritus of the German Language and Literature, University of Oxford

2004 -

University of Oxford Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature

1989 -

Queen's College University of Oxford Fellow

1989 -

University of Oxford Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature, University of Oxford

1989 -

St John's College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages

1963 - 1988

Publications

Thomas Mann: the uses of tradition 1974

The classical centre: Goethe and Weimar, 1775-1832 1981

Mehr Licht in Deutschland: Kleine Geschichte der Aufklarung 2009

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Aleida Assmann FBA

English and American literature; cultural anthropology; media history of writing and reading; individual, collective and cultural memory, with special emphasis on Holocaust, trauma and the construction of national narratives

Aleida Assmann FBA

Professor Paul Gilroy FBA

African American literature and culture; the cultural history of postcolonial societies; the sociology of ethnicity, race and racism in Britain

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Professor Derek Attridge FBA

The language of literature and literary theory: Renaissance prosodic experiments, English poetic rhythm, James Joyce and J. M. Coetzee, philosophical approaches to literature.

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