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Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Professor

Research Interests

Climate Change, Disaster Studies, Environmental History, History of Earth Sciences

Education

Ph.D Columbia University, 2000

Courses Taught

Environmental Writing, Poetry and Poetics, The Anthropocene, History of Earth Sciences

COURSES

  • ESE/ENGL 360 Environmental Writing
  • ESE/ENGL 477 Advanced Environmental Writing
  • ESE/ENGL 498 Environmental Writing for Publication
  • ESE/ENGL 293 The Anthropocene
  • GEOL 201 History of Geology
  • ENGL 431 Green Romanticism
  • ENGL 300 Can Poetry Save the Earth?

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, English
Professor, Earth Science and Environmental Change
Professor, Center for Global Studies

Highlighted Publications

Wood, G. DA. (2020). Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp2n3zm

Wood, G. DA. (2014). Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World. Princeton University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vjv5c

Wood, G. DA. (2010). Romanticism and Music Culture in Britain, 1770-1840: Virtue and Virtuosity. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Cambridge University Press.

Wood, G. DA. (2005). Hosack’s Folly: A Novel of Old New York. Other Press.

Wood, G. DA. (2001). The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760–1860. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06809-5

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Recent Publications

D’Arcy Wood, G. (2024). Climate and the Little Ice Age. In E. Aronova, D. Sepkoski, & M. Tamborini (Eds.), Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences (pp. 1-18). (Historiographies of Science). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92679-3_9-1

Wood, G. D. A. (2022). Brooch Clams and Blind Lobsters: HMS Challenger in the Australasian Pacific, 1874–5. In The Making and Remaking of Australasia: Mobility, Texts and 'Southern Circulations' (pp. 169-182). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..

Wood, G. DA. (2020). Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp2n3zm

Wood, G. DA. (2020). Shelley's Musical Gifts. In D. da Sousa Correa (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music (pp. 340-348). (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities). Edinburgh University Press.

Wood, G. DA. (2020). Stendhal at La Scala: The Birth of Musical Fandom. In D. da Sousa Correa (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music (pp. 429-436). (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities). Edinburgh University Press.

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