James Wood
Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism
Office: Barker 262Office hours: By appointment (On leave Fall 2023)
Education: M.A., Jesus College, Cambridge (1988)
Interests: 20th Century Literature; Religion and Literature.
Selected Works:
The Broken Estate: Essays in Literature and Belief (Modern Library, 1999); Selected Shorter Fiction of D.H. Lawrence (Modern Library, 1999); The Book Against God (Farrar, Straus, 2003); The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel (Farrar, Straus, 2004); How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008); The Fun Stuff and other essays (Farrar, Strauss, 2012); The Nearest Thing to Life: Four Lectures (2015); Upstate (a novel), 2018; Serious Noticing: Selected Essays 1997-2019 (2020)