Wai Chee Dimock
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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 the New Yorker[6] and The New York Times.[7]
Dimock is a frequent public speaker in the U.S. and abroad[8][9][10][11][12][13]
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[14] produced by WGBH, and aired on PBS in the fall of 2010.[15] A related Facebook forum, "Rethinking World Literature," is ongoing. She also writes a blog on "American Literature in the World",[16] a digital platform supporting a web-and-print anthology and an annual graduate conference.[17]
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
- ↑ http://chicagohumanities.org/events/2013/animal/hearing-animals-in-thoreau-and-others#.UkZdaG3IHQw
- ↑ http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/uploads/pdf/Dimock_LowEpic.pdf
- ↑ http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v31.n17/story6.html
- ↑ http://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/wai-chee-dimock
- ↑ http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/debate_deep_time_and_the_transnational/
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/walt-whitman-and-the-essence-of-opera/
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/08/31/what-should-college-freshmen-read/the-classics-arent-dead-or-irrelevant
- ↑ http://english.nd.edu/ndcalendarimages/wai-chee-dimock-lectures-poster
- ↑ http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2009/03/16/Wai+Chee+Dimock+to+give+Robert+E.+Knoll+lecture+April+2+at+UNL
- ↑ WGTE Knowledge Stream http://www.knowledgestream.org/kstream/index.asp?item_id=11500
- ↑ http://jnlamstudies.podbean.com/2010/08/06/whos-irish-henry-james-colm-toibin-james-joyce-gish-jen-professor-wai-chee-dimock/
- ↑ http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/fusion/img/poster/20100616_dimock_forum.jpg
- ↑ http://www.gsnas.fu-berlin.de/conference/2011/index.html
- ↑ http://www.learner.org/courses/worldlit/about.html
- ↑ http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Invitation-to-World-Literature-1217
- ↑ http://amlitintheworld.commons.yale.edu/blog/
- ↑ http://amlitintheworld.commons.yale.edu/
