Jim Hood
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Beth Tyson and Jim Hood during the Reading Wilderness course in Canada. Photograph taken by Maia Dery |
Jim Hood teaches nineteenth-century British literature and environmental studies at Guilford. His research interests focus on nineteenth-century poetry and religion. Recently, he has developed courses on literature and ethics, nineteenth-century novels and film, American nature writing, and cultural constructions of wilderness. Jim received his A.B. degree from Guilford College, his master's from
Yale University Divinity School, and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His publications include Divining Desire: Tennyson and the Poetics of Transcendence (Ashgate Publishing, England, 2000); articles in Victorian Poetry, the Victorian Institutes Journal, and the Tennyson Research Bulletin; and poems in the Southern Humanities Review and The Christian Century.