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Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Occupation Academic
Academic background
Alma mater Monash University
Columbia University (Ph.D)
Academic work
Institutions University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Main interests poetry, poetics, Romanticism, ecology, anthropocene, music history

Gillen D'Arcy Wood is associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is originally from Australia, the son of H. D'Arcy Wood and a grandson of A. Harold Wood. He studied at Monash University in Melbourne and received his Ph.D from Columbia University in New York City under a Fulbright scholarship and has published extensively on nineteenth-century art and literature.

He is the author of The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860 (Palgrave, 2001), Romanticism and Music Culture in Britain, 1770-1840: Virtue and Virtuosity (Cambridge UP, 2010), an historical novel, Hosack's Folly (Other Press, 2005), and Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014).


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