Terence James Reed

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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 German in the University of Oxford.

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. His Bithell memorial lecture for 1994 appeared in print as Genesis: Some Episodes in Literary Creation (London, University of London, Institute of Germanic Studies, 1995). Volume 33 of the Oxford German Studies, edited by Tom Kuhn and published in October 2004, is a Festschrift marking his retirement.

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