Wai Chee Dimock

Wai Chee Dimock (born October 29, 1953)[1] is an academic who writes about public health, climate change, and indigenous communities, focusing on the relationship between humans and nonhumans. She is a professor at Yale University,[2] and a researcher and writer at the Harvard University Center for the Environment.[3] Her essays have appeared in Artforum,[4] The Hill,[5] Los Angeles Review of Books,[6] Chronicle of Higher Education,[7] New York Times,[8] New Yorker,[9] and Scientific American.[10]

Dimock was a consultant for "Invitation to World Literature," a 13-part series produced by WGBH, aired on PBS in 2010.[11] Her lecture course, "Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald," is available through Open Yale Courses.

She graduated from Harvard College in 1976 and Yale University in 1982.[12]

Books

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  • 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)[13]
  • Shades of the Planet (Princeton UP, 2007)[14]
  • Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton UP, 2006)[15]
  • 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

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  1. ^ "@waicheedimock" on Twitter
  2. ^ "Wai Chee Dimock | American Studies".
  3. ^ "Wai Chee Dimock | American Studies".
  4. ^ "Wai Chee Dimock on living with risk". May 2020.,
  5. ^ "Can NASA help save the planet? Yes, with indigenous partners". 9 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Wai Chee Dimock - Los Angeles Review of Books". Lareviewofbooks/org. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  7. ^ "What Book Changed Your Mind?". 7 November 2014.
  8. ^ Dimock, Wai Chee (7 September 2022). "New-Climate-Fiction-Offers-Visions-for-Environmental-Justice". The New York Times.,
  9. ^ "Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera". The New Yorker. 4 June 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  10. ^ Dimock, Wai Chee (5 April 2022). "What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI". Scientific American. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  11. ^ "- Invitation to World Literature". WGBH - Invitation to World Literature. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  12. ^ "Wai Chee Dimock | English".
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Dimock, W. And Buell, L., eds.: Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature. (Paperback)". Archived from the original on 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
  15. ^ "Dimock, W.: Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time. (EBook and Paperback)". Archived from the original on 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
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