Name Terence Reed | Role Author | |
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Books Thomas Mann: The Uses of T, Death in Venice: Making a, The classical centre, Die klassische Mitte, Genesis: Some Episodes | ||
T. J. (Terence James) Reed (born in London in 1937) is a prominent British Germanist, an emeritus fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy; he was formerly Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature in the University of Oxford.
He is editor of Oxford German Studies.
Terence Reed has been a Council member of the International Goethe Society and is the President of the English Goethe Society
Reed is the author of Thomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1974; 2nd ed., 1996), the first comprehensive study of Thomas Mann in English to be based on the materials of the Thomas-Mann-Archiv at the ETH Zurich; and a substantial number of other works. These include The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar (London, Croom Helm, 1979), Goethe (Oxford University Press, 1984) and Schiller (Oxford University Press, 1991). His Bithell memorial lecture for 1994 appeared in print and is a Festschrift marking his retirement.