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Wai Chee Dimock

Wai Chee Dimock 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, and a researcher and writer at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Her essays have appeared in Artforum, The Hill, Los Angeles Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times, New Yorker, and Scientific American.

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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)
References

References

  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". November 9, 2021.
  6. "Wai Chee Dimock - Los Angeles Review of Books". Lareviewofbooks/org. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  7. "What Book Changed Your Mind?". November 7, 2014.
  8. Dimock, Wai Chee (September 7, 2022). "New-Climate-Fiction-Offers-Visions-for-Environmental-Justice". The New York Times.,
  9. "Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera". The New Yorker. June 4, 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  10. Dimock, Wai Chee (April 5, 2022). "What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI". Scientific American. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
  11. "- Invitation to World Literature". WGBH - Invitation to World Literature. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  12. "Wai Chee Dimock | English".
  13. Dimock, Wai-Chee, ed. (January 31, 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 March 30, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  15. "Dimock, W.: Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time. (EBook and Paperback)". Archived from the original on April 11, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
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