Michael Wood (academic)
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Michael Wood born in Lincoln, England, is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Professor of comparative literature
at Princeton University
. He is an alumnus of St John's College, Cambridge
.
Prior to teaching to Princeton, he taught at Columbia University
, and at the University of Exeter
in Devon
, England. He was Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton from 1995–2001, and chaired Princeton's English department from 1998 to 2004. He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books
and on film for the London Review of Books
.
Comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...
at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. He is an alumnus of St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....
.
Prior to teaching to Princeton, he taught at 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...
, and at the University of Exeter
University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....
in Devon
Devon
Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...
, England. He was Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton from 1995–2001, and chaired Princeton's English department from 1998 to 2004. He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...
and on film for the London Review of Books
London Review of Books
The London Review of Books is a fortnightly British magazine of literary and intellectual essays.-History:The LRB was founded in 1979, during the year-long lock-out at The Times, by publisher A...
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Published 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)