Wai Chee Dimock

Wai Chee Dimock has written on every period of American literature, from Anne Bradstreet^[1] to Star Trek.^[2] She is Wiilam Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University.,^[3] and a film critic for the Los Angeles Review of Books.^[4] Originally from Hong Kong, she received her B.A. from Harvard and Ph.D. from Yale. She argues for a broad conception of literature, including materials both high and low, and scales both local and global. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from Critical Inquiry^[5] to Salon.^[6]

Dimock is a frequent public speaker in the U.S. and abroad^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Her lecture course, "Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald," is available through Open Yale Courses.

Dimock was a consultant for "Invitation to World Literature," a 13-part series funded by the Annenberg Foundation^[13] produced by WGBH, and aired on PBS in the fall of 2010.^[14] A related Facebook forum, "Rethinking World Literature," is ongoing. She also writes a blog on "American Literature in the World",^[15] a digital platform supporting a web-and-print anthology and an annual graduate conference.^[16]

Books

• Shades of the Planet (Princeton UP, 2007)
• Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton UP, 2006)
• Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (U of California P, 1997)
• Rethinking Class (Columbia UP, 1994)
• Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (Princeton UP, 1989)

References

• Open Yale Courses
• American Literature in the World Facebook
• American Literature in the World graduate conference