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Gillen Wood

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Gillen D'Arcy Wood
OccupationAcademic
SpouseDr. Nancy E. Castro
ChildrenLucas L. Wood, Clara E. Wood
Academic background
Alma materMonash University
Columbia University (Ph.D)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Main interestspoetry, poetics, Romanticism, ecology, anthropocene, music history

Gillen D'Arcy Wood is Professor of Environmental Humanities and 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 environmental history, 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), the award-winning Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014), [1] and recently, Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020).

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