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 Judith Butler FBA

Feminist and queer theory, focusing on gender, sexuality and the psychosocial formation of the subject, moral and social philosophy, literary theory, and 19th and 20th century European philosophy

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Professor Rachel Bowlby FBA

Literary realism; history and theory of consumer culture; Freud, especially in relation to Greek tragedy and feminist reappraisals; Virginia Woolf; contemporary French philosophy.

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Professor Isobel Armstrong FBA

Women's writing; English language and literature; 19th-century poetry and literature; Victorian literature

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