Wai Chee Dimock

Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, has written widely on American literature. Editor of PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, and a film critic for the Los Angeles Review of Books, her work has also appeared in Critical Inquiry, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New Yorker. and the New York Times.

Contents

• 1 introduction
• The wai chee dimock approach
• Books
• References

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. A related Facebook forum, "Rethinking World Literature," is ongoing. Her lecture course, "Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald," is available through Open Yale Courses.

Books

American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (Columbia UP, 2017)

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)