Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois

Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Director of Sustainability Studies Initiative in the Humanities, Nicholson Professor of English

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Education

Ph.D Columbia University, 2000

Teaching Interests

Romanticism, Sustainability Studies, Ecocriticism, poetry and poetics

Courses

ENG 476 Green Romanticism, ENG 293 Culture and Sustainability, ENG 300 Can Poetry Save the Earth?

Research Interests

Romanticism, Sustainability, Climate Change, Environmental history and discourse, History of Climate and Earth Sciences, History of medicine, British colonialism and empire, European visual culture and music 1750-1850

Selected Publications

Books

  • Romanticism and Music Culture in Britain, 1770-1840: Virtue and Virtuosity. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Hosack's Folly. New York: Other Press, 2005.
  • The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

Journal Articles

  • ""What is Sustainability Studies?"." ALH 24.1 (2012):
  • "Leigh Hunt's New Suburbia: An Eco-historical Study in Climate Poetics and Public Health." ISLE 18.3 (2011): 527-52.
  • "The Volcano Lover: Climate, Colonialism, and the Slave Trade in Raffles's 'History of Java'." Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 8.2 (2008): 33-55.
  • "Ecohistoricism." Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 8.2 (2008): 1-7.
  • "Constable, Clouds, Climate Change." The Wordsworth Circle 38.1-2 (2007): 25-34.
  • "The Female Penseroso: Anna Seward, Sociable Poetry, and the Handelian Consensus." Modern Language Quarterly 67.4 (2006): 451-77.
  • "Cockney Mozart: The Hunt Circle, the King's Theatre, and Don Giovanni." Studies in Romanticism 44.3 (2005): 367-97.
  • "Crying Game: Operatic Strains in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads." ELH 71 (2004): 969-1000.

Special Issues of a Journal

  • "Sustainability in America". Spec. iss. of ALH 24.1 (2012):
  • Climate and Crisis. Spec. iss. of Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 8.2 (2008):

Essays

Newspaper Articles

  • "The Man Who Knew Too Much." The New York Times. [New York] 24 Jul. 2005, sec. 14: 3.

Works in Progress

  • Frankenstein's Weather: Mount Tambora and the Global Climate Dystopia, 1815-18