Gillen D'Arcy Wood is assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of He is originally from Australia. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. He studied at Columbia University under a Fulbright scholarship and has published extensively on nineteenth-century art and literature. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants for international educational exchange for scholars educators graduate
He is the author of "The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860" (Palgrave, 2001), and an historical novel, "Hosack's Folly" (Other Press, 2005).