Research Areas
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
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
Recent 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. (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.
Wood, G. D. (2020). The Volcano That Spawned a Monster: Frankenstein and Climate Change. Huntington Library Quarterly, 83(4), 691-703. https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2020.0033
Wood, G. DA. (2019). Arctic voyages (1838–1842): Sir Edward Sabine, James Ross, and the magnetic sublime. Wordsworth Circle, 50(2), 237-246. https://doi.org/10.1086/703690