Gillen Wood

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| spouse = Dr. Nancy E. Castro

| children = Lucas L. Wood, Clara E. Wood

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| alma_mater = Monash University
Columbia University (Ph.D)

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| workplaces = University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

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| main_interests = poetry, poetics, Romanticism, ecology, anthropocene, music history

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Gillen D'Arcy Wood is one of two Robert W. Schaefer Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Associate Director, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment there. 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), [https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/tambora-the-eruption-that-changed-the-world-by-gillen-darcy-wood/2014089.article 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).