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Profile
I grew up in New Zealand and completed my first degree there (MA in German and French 1958-59). I studied in Heidelberg 1961-65 and took my Dr. phil. in 1965.
I taught at Birmingham and Bristol before coming to Trinity in 1974. I was a Title C Fellow and University Lecturer until 1987 when I went to the Henry Simon Chair of German at Manchester. I returned to Cambridge in 1989 as Schröder Professor of German, retiring in 2005. I received my Cambridge MA in 1974 and Litt.D. in 1987.
I was awarded a Humboldt Prize in 2002 and the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 2011.
I have been a College tutor and have served on various committees, including Council. For some years I was in charge of the College portrait scheme.
Teaching
I taught all for all papers relating to German literature from 1500 to 1914.
Research
My research is largely concentrated on German literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, with special emphasis on Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare.
Selected Publications
(2021) From Goethe to Gundolf. Essays on German Literature and Culture (Cambridge: Open Book)
(2016) The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel: Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry (Cambridge: Open Book) (German translation Paderborn: Schöningh, 2017)
(2003) The Critical Reception of Shakespeare in Germany 1692-1914: Native Literature and Foreign Genius (Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Olms)
(1999) Der Fall Wilhelm Jerusalem: Zum Selbstmordproblem zwischen Aufklärung und Empfindsamkeit (Göttingen: Wallstein)
(1992) Theodor Storm (Munich: Beck)
(1985) The Brief Compass: The Nineteenth-Century German Novelle (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
(1985) Ludwig Tieck: a Literary Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (German translation Munich: Beck, 1988)
Edited volumes (selected):
(2007) Shakespeare im 18. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Wallstein)
(2010) Voltaire, Goethe, Schlegel, Coleridge. Great Shakespeareans III (London, NewYork: continuum)