Gillen D'Arcy Wood is one of two Robert W. Schaefer Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and associate director, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment there. He is originally from Australia, the son of D'Arcy Wood and a grandson of A. Harold Wood. He studied at Monash University in Melbourne and received his PhD from Columbia University in New York City under a Fulbright scholarship and has published extensively on nineteenth-century environmental history, art and literature.