Gillen D'Arcy Wood
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Gillen D'Arcy Wood is associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. He is originally from Australia
, the son of H. D'Arcy Wood
and a grandson of A. Harold Wood
. He studied at Monash University, Melbourne and Columbia University
under a Fulbright scholarship
and has published extensively on nineteenth-century 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) and an historical novel, "Hosack's Folly" (Other Press, 2005).
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
. He is originally from Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, the son of H. D'Arcy Wood
H. D'Arcy Wood
Reverend Dr Harold D'Arcy Wood is a semi-retired Uniting Church in Australia Minister and was President of the UCA Assembly between 1991-94. He has been active in ecumenism in Australia and globally....
and a grandson of A. Harold Wood
A. Harold Wood
Rev. Dr A. Harold Wood OBE was a 20th-century Australian churchman, educator, writer, hymnologist and advocate of church union.Born Alfred Harold Wood in Geelong on 4 May 1896, the son of Salvation Army officers, Wood was educated in Sydney...
. He studied at Monash University, Melbourne and Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
under a Fulbright scholarship
Fulbright Program
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of competitive, merit-based grants for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946. Under the...
and has published extensively on nineteenth-century 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) and an historical novel, "Hosack's Folly" (Other Press, 2005).