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New York University

Arts and Culture Anthropology History Literature Art History History of Art Literature History of Religion

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Christopher Wood is Professor of German, Chair of the Department of German, and Director of Graduate Studies at New York University, positions he has held since joining the institution in 2014. Prior to NYU, he taught for twenty-two years (1992-2014) in the Department of History of Art at Yale University, where he specialized in Northern Renaissance art, particularly the works of Albrecht Dürer and his German contemporaries. Wood received his A.B. in History and Literature from Harvard University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the same institution in 1991, with a dissertation on the origins of landscape painting, published as Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape (Reaktion Books and University of Chicago Press, 1993; revised edition 2014). As a Jacob Wendell Scholar and Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, he trained in European history and literature from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, alongside philosophy, history of ideas, literary theory, and art history.