David Wood

Assistant Professor
B.A., Skidmore College
M.A., University of Alaska Fairbanks
Ph.D., Purdue University
dwood@nmu.edu

David Wood began teaching at Northern in 2007.  He completed his Ph.D. at Purdue University in Renaissance Studies in 2004, and earned his other degrees at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (MA) and Skidmore College (BA), respectively. 

In addition, he also lived for a year in the Peoples' Republic of China, teaching reading, writing, and literature at Qufu Normal University.  His current book manuscript is tentatively entitled "Very Now: Timing the Subject in English Renaissance Literature," which traces the relationship between representations of character emotion and experimentation with narrative form in the literature of the period, and he has published related essays on writers and artists such as Shakespeare, Sidney, and the Italian baroque painter Caravaggio. 

David continues to serve as co-Chair for Purdue's annual Renaissance Prose Conference, and he comes to Northern after three years at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he won numerous teaching awards from the English Department Honor Society.