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

• 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)