Wai Chee Dimock

Wai Chee Dimock (born October 29, 1953)[1] writes about public health, climate change, and indigenous communities, focusing especially on the symbiotic relation between humans and nonhumans. She is a professor at Yale,[2] and a researcher at the Harvard University Center for the Environment.[3] Her writings have appeared in The Hill,[4] Artforum,[5] Los Angeles Review of Books,[6] Chronicle of Higher Education,[7] New Yorker.[8] and New York Times.[9]

Dimock was a consultant for "Invitation to World Literature," a 13-part series produced by WGBH, and aired on PBS in the fall of 2010.[10] A related Facebook forum, "Rethinking World Literature," is ongoing. Her lecture course, "Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald," is available through Open Yale Courses.

She graduated from Harvard College in 1976 and Yale University in 1982.[11]

Books
  • Weak Planet : Literature and Assisted Survival (U of Chicago P, 2020)
  • American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (Columbia UP, 2017)[12]
  • Shades of the Planet (Princeton UP, 2007)[13]
  • Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton UP, 2006)[14]
  • 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
  4. https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/580821-can-nasa-help-save-the-planet-yes-with-indigenous-partners. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. https://www.artforum.com/print/202005/wai-chee-dimock-on-living-with-risk-82815. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. "Wai Chee Dimock - Los Angeles Review of Books". Lareviewofbooks/org. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  7. https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-book-changed-your-mind/?cid=gen_sign_in. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. "Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera". The New Yorker. 4 June 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  9. Dimock, Wai Chee (5 May 2017). "There's No Escape From Contamination Above the Toxic Sea". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  10. "- Invitation to World Literature". WGBH - Invitation to World Literature. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  11. "Wai Chee Dimock | English".
  12. Dimock, Wai-Chee, ed. (31 January 2017). American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231157377.
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2016-10-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2016-10-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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