Michael Wood is professor emeritus of English at Princeton University. He was director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton from 1995 to 2001, and chaired Princeton's English department from 1998 to 2004. He writes in literary publications such as The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, where he is also an editorial board member and write a column, "At the Movies". Wood also teaches at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont during the summers.
