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 Isobel Armstrong FBA

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

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Professor Neil Lazarus FBA

Postcolonial literary studies; modernisation, modernity, modernism; critical social theory, sociology of literature; the questions of 'world literature' and comparative literary studies; more broadly, modern literature (1850 to the present)

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Professor Juliet Mitchell FBA

Psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary research into gender/sexual difference and sibling/social group relationships using literature to analyse the horizontal axis missing from social theory

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