In 2016 Wood received her PhD from the University of Chicago and she is currently preparing a book manuscript based on her dissertation, The Art of Play: Games in Early Modern Italy. Wood’s research has generously been supported by several fellowships and institutions, including as a Fulbright Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut and as a Samuel H. Kress Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. In addition to her work on early modern art, her interests include game studies and its history in visual and material culture, including video games.