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 Antoine Compagnon FBA

French Renaissance prose; 19th and 20th-century French literature and culture; history of criticism; theory of literature

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Professor Peter France FBA

French Language and Literature

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Professor Peter Brooks FBA

Comparative literature, mainly French & English; Stendhal, Balzac, Henry James; the novel and its analysis; psychoanalysis and literary study; law and literature; identity in modern culture

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