Gillen D'Arcy Wood is Professor of Environmental Humanities and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is originally from

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, the son of

H. D'Arcy Wood Harold D'Arcy Wood (born 9 December 1936) is a semi-retired Minister (Christianity), minister of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) and was President of the UCA Assembly from 1991 to 1994. He has been active in Christian ecumenism, ecumenism ...

and a grandson of

A. Harold Wood Alfred Harold Wood OBE (4 May 1896 – 27 August 1989) was a 20th-century Australian Christian minister, educator, writer, hymnologist and advocate of church union. Early life A. Harold Wood was born in Geelong, Victoria, the son of Alfred Wo ...

. He studied at Monash University in Melbourne and received his Ph.D from Columbia University in New York City under a

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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 {{unsourced, date=May 2018 ''Hosack's Folly'' is a 2005 historical novel written by Australian author Gillen D'Arcy Wood. Based on the life of renowned New York physician Dr. David Hosack, the story takes place in 1820s Manhattan during an impen ...

'' (Other Press, 2005), the award-winning ''Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World'' (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014), Alison Stokes, (26 June 2014), Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World, by Gillen D’Arcy Wood, ''Times Higher Education''
Retrieved 9 April 2017 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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Gillen Wood page at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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