Michael Wood (academic)

For other people of the same name, see Michael Wood.

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

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)

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