Watch the lecture here.
You can also watch Henk de Berg’s interview with Reed.
About our speaker
TJ (Jim) Reed, formerly Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, is the President of the English Goethe Society and a Fellow of the British Academy.
He is also a founding member of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense and a corresponding member of the Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften.
His books include:
- Thomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition (1974)
- The Classical Centre (1980)
- Goethe (1984)
- Schiller (1991)
- Humanpraxis Literatur (2001)
- Mehr Licht in Deutschland. Eine kleine Geschichte der Aufklärung (2009)
- Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment (2015)
TJ Reed is the recipient of the Gold Medal of the Goethe-Gesellschaft, the Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Freiburg.