Michael Wood (literary scholar)

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Michael Wood (born 19 August 1936)[1] is professor emeritus of English at Princeton University.[2] He is a literary and cultural critic, and an author of critical and scholarly books as well as a writer of reviews, review articles, and columns.[3]

He was director of the

Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont
during the summers.

Prior to teaching at Princeton, he taught at Columbia University in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, lived briefly in Mexico City, then took the chair of English at the University of Exeter in Devon, England.

In addition to countless reviews, he also has written books on

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a member of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society
.

Early life and education

Michael George Wood was born in Lincoln, England.[4][5] He obtained his BA in 1957 in French and German from St John's College, Cambridge, and his PhD in 1962, also from Cambridge,[1] for a thesis entitled The Dramatic Function of Symbol in Maeterlinck and Claudel.[4]

Career

From 1964 to 1982 Wood taught at Columbia University, becoming Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and he then took up the Professorship of English Literature at the University of Exeter (1982–95).[4] In 1995 he was appointed Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, which post he held until his retirement in 2013.[4][5]

Personal life

Wood lives in New Jersey with his wife, Elena Uribe, and has three children: Gaby Wood, the Chief Executive of the Booker Prize Foundation,[6] Patrick Wood, CEO of Util,[7] and Tony Wood, former editor at the New Left Review and author of Chechnya: The Case For Independence.[8]

Selected works

  • Stendhal (Cornell University Press, 1971)
  • America in the Movies (Basic Books, 1975)
  • García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
  • The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the risks of fiction (Chatto and Windus, 1994)
  • Children of Silence: on contemporary fiction (Columbia University Press, 1998)
  • Belle de Jour (British Film Institute Publishing, 2001)
  • The Road to Delphi: the Life and Afterlife of Oracles (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2003)
  • Franz Kafka (Northcote House/British Council, 2004)
  • Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation, editor with Sandra Bermann (Princeton University Press, 2005)
  • Literature and the Taste of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
  • Yeats and Violence (Oxford University Press, 2010)
  • Film: A very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012)
  • Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)
  • On Empson (Princeton University Press, 2017)

References

  1. ^ a b "WOOD, Michael", International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004, Europa Publications, 2003, p. 587.
  2. ^ "Emeritus Faculty", Princeton University.
  3. ^ Faculty Members Receiving Emeritus Status. Princeton, NJ: The Trustees of Princeton University. May 2013. p. 89.
  4. ^ a b c d "Curriculum vitae", Princeton University.
  5. ^ a b "Michael George Wood". Office of the Dean of the Faculty, Princeton University. May 2013.
  6. ^ "Telegraph critic Gaby Wood to run Man Booker Prize". BBC News. 30 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Util". Util. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  8. ISBN 978-1-84467-114-4
    .

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Preceded by Straut Professor of English at Princeton University
1995–present 		Succeeded by
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