James W. Hood is Professor of English at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he teaches courses in Romantic and Victorian British literature, literature and ethics, American nature writing, composition, and the natural history of central North Carolina. His publications include wor...

James W. Hood is Professor of English at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he teaches courses in Romantic and Victorian British literature, literature and ethics, American nature writing, composition, and the natural history of central North Carolina. His publications include works on Alfred Tennyson, John Keats, gothic fiction, and Victorian gift books, and he regularly reviews books for Friends Journal. A member of Friendship Friends Meeting (North Carolina Yearly Meeting-Conservative), he has served on the Friends Association for Higher Education executive committee and as clerk of the New Garden Friends School board of trustees.