Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Environmental Change Institute Scholar/ Nicholson Professor of English
Education
Ph.D Columbia University, 2000
Teaching Interests
Romanticism, poetry and poetics, environmental discourse and history, sustainability
Research Interests
Romanticism, ecohistoricism, climate change and sustainability, European visual culture and music 1750-1850 , the historical novel
Publications
Books
- Virtue and Virtuosity: Romanticism and Music Culture in Britain, 1770-1840. 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.
Book Contributions
- ""Austen's Accomplishment: Music and the Modern Heroine"." The Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen. Chichester: Blackwell, 2009. 366-76.
- "Visual Pleasures, Visionary States: Art, Entertainment, and the Nation." The Blackwell Concise Companion to Romanticism. Chichester: Blackwell, 2009.
- "[]." Introduction. Ivanhoe. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2005.
- "[]." Introduction. A Tale of Two Cities. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2003.
Journal Articles
- "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.
- "The Castrato's Tale: Artaxerxes and the Feminization of Virtuosity." The Wordsworth Circle 38.1-2 (2008): 74-9.
- "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.
- "Introduction to Romanticism and Opera." Romantic Praxis (2005):
- "Crying Game: Operatic Strains in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads." ELH 71 (2004): 969-1000.
- "Working Holiday: Turner as Waverley Tourist." The Wordsworth Circle 31.2 (2000): 83-8.
- "Mourning the Marbles: The Strange Case of Lord Elgin's Nose." The Wordsworth Circle 29.3 (1998): 171-7.
Newspaper Articles
- "The Man Who Knew Too Much." The New York Times. [New York] 24 Jul. 2005, sec. 14: 3.
Works in Progress
- Tambora: The Global Climate Emergency of 1815-17 (book and multimedia project)