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Wai Chee Dimock (born October 29, 1953)[1] writes about public health, climate change, and Indigenous communities,[2] focusing on the symbiosis between humans and nonhumans, from microbes to machines to canines.[3] William Lampson Professor Emeritus of American studies and English at Yale University, her writing has appeared in Artforum,[4] The Hill,[5] Los Angeles Review of Books,[6] The Chronicle of Higher Education,[7] The New York Times,[8] The New Yorker,[9] and Scientific American.[10]
Dimock was a consultant for Invitation to World Literature, a 13-part series produced by WGBH, which aired on PBS in 2010.[2] Her lecture course, "Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald", was recorded for Open Yale Courses.[11] Her substack "Dog Stories" features offbeat meditations on dogs in life and literature.[12]
She grew up in Hong Kong,[13] graduated from Harvard College in 1976 and Yale University in 1982.[2]
Books
[edit]- Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (Princeton University Press, 1989)
- Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations (editor with Michael T. Gilmore, Columbia University Press, 1994)
- Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (University of California Press, 1997)
- Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton University Press, 2006)
- Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (editor with Lawrence Buell, Princeton University Press, 2007)[14]
- American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (Columbia University Press, 2017)
- Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Dimock, Wai-chee, 1953-". Library of Congress Names. June 16, 1988. Retrieved July 9, 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Wai Chee Dimock". Yale University English. Retrieved July 9, 2026.
- ↑ "Wai Chee Dimock". Yale University American Studies. Retrieved July 9, 2026.
- ↑ Dimock, Wai Chee (May 1, 2020). "THREAT ASSESSMENT". Artforum. Retrieved July 9, 2026.
- ↑ Dimock, Wai Chee (November 10, 2021). "Can NASA help save the planet? Yes, with indigenous partners". The Hill. Retrieved July 9, 2026.
- ↑ "Wai Chee Dimock". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved July 9, 2026.
- ↑ "What Book Changed Your Mind?". The Chronicle of Higher Education. November 7, 2014. Retrieved July 9, 2026.
- ↑ Dimock, Wai Chee (September 7, 2022). "New Climate Fiction Offers Visions for Environmental Justice". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 9, 2026.
- ↑ Dimock, Wai Chee (June 4, 2015). "Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved July 9, 2026.
- ↑ Dimock, Wai Chee (April 5, 2022). "What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI". Scientific American. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
- ↑ "Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner". Open Yale Courses. Retrieved July 9, 2026.
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- ↑ "Wai Chee Dimock: Reading American literature outside the box". Library of America. July 29, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2026.
- ↑ "Dimock, W. And Buell, L., eds.: Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature. (Paperback)". Archived from the original on March 30, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
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