Michael Wood (born Lincoln, 19 August 1936)[1] is professor emeritus of English at Princeton University.
Wood also teaches at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont during the summers.
Before Princeton, Wood taught at Columbia University's Department of English and Comparative Literature, lived briefly in Mexico City, and chaired the English department at the University of Exeter in Devon, England.
In addition to countless reviews, he also has written books on Nabokov, the trans-historical appeal of the oracle from the Greeks to the cinema, on the relations between contemporary fiction and storytelling, and on figures in the modern cultural pantheon including Luis Buñuel, Franz Kafka, Stendhal, Gabriel García Márquez, and W. B. Yeats.
[4] In 1995 he was appointed Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, a post he held until retiring in 2013.