James D. Reid

James D. Reid studied philosophy and biology at Case Western Reserve University and holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago. He has taught ethics and the history of philosophy at Chicago (where he won a Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching), Colorado College, the College of William and Mary, and the United States Air Force Academy. He is currently professor of philosophy at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. In 2016 he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support translation work on Martin Heidegger and in 2021 an NEH award for scholarship in German Romantic philosophy and poetry. He is series co-founder and editor of Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry. His current projects include a monograph on the German philosophical poet Novalis (Oxford UP), a translation of Novalis's writings on nature and natural science (Oxford UP), a volume on the philosophical dimensions of the films of Terrence Malick, and a book-length study of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus. He has also developed a series of lectures on early modern philosophy for The Great Courses.