English

EDUCATION:
B.A. Harvard University, 1976
Ph.D. Yale University, 1982

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INTERESTS: American Literature; Law and Literature; Literature and Science; World Literature

Wai Chee Dimock experiments with close readings across different widths of space, and across a range of time-scales. Her new book, "Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time" (2006), received Honorable Mention for both the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association and the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. A collaborative volume, "Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature," further elaborates on these arguments.  She is now at work on a textbook, "American Literature and the World," and a new project, "Genres and Media; A Long Kinship."  A co-edited special issue of PMLA, "Remapping Genre," appeared in October 2007.

Outside Yale, Dimock is also a consultant for "Invitation to World Literature," an educational series funded by the Annenberg Foundation and produced by WGBH, to be aired on PBS stations in the fall of 2010.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (Princeton UP, 1989)

--Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (U of California P, 1996)

--Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges. Special issue of American Literature, co-edited with Priscilla Wald (Duke UP, 2002)

--Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time ( Princeton UP, 2006)

-- Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature, co-edited with Lawrence Buell (Princeton UP, 2007)

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Introduction to American Literature, The European Epic Tradition, Directed Studies Philosophy, American Literature and World Religions (freshman seminar), American Literature from Revolution to 1865, James, Wharton, Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Classics and Their Progeny

GRADUATE COURSES: Problems in American Literature, Interdisciplinary Approaches to American Literature, American Literary Globalism, American Literature in a Transnational Context, Literary Genres and World Cultures, American Literature and World Religions, Hawthorne to Mukherjee