Professor Michael Wood FBA

Modern & contemporary literature in English, French, German & Spanish; literary theory; theory of the novel; the history of criticism
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2011
Subjects
Literature

Summary

Michael Wood is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He was born in Lincoln, studied at Cambridge, and taught previously at Columbia University in New York and Exeter University.

Current post

Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University

Publications

The Magician's Doubts 1994

America in the Movies 1975

Literature and the Taste of Knowledge 2005

Yeats and Violence 2010

Stendhal 1971

The Road to Delphi 2004

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