12 - Wai Chee Dimock
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2020
Summary
I’ve heard from so many people—at OSU, UVA, UNC Chapel Hill—that their health-related classes have huge enrollments. Science and social science students are as likely to take these classes as English majors, because they’re not speaking to a small subset of the population. They’re for everyone. Just look at the two of us. We both have disabilities that are likely to recur. Everyone can look forward to that. It's guaranteed.
Born: 1953.
Education: Harvard University, BA, 1976; Yale University, PhD, 1982.
Dimock was assistant professor of English, Rutgers University, 1982–88; associate professor of English (with tenure), Rutgers University, 1988–90; associate professor of literature, University of California, San Diego, 1990–92; associate professor of English, Brandeis University, 1992–94; visiting associate professor of English, Harvard University, fall 1994; professor of English, Brandeis University, 1994–97; professor of English and American studies, Yale University, 1997–2002; William Lampson Professor of English and American studies, Yale University, 2003–present. She currently serves as editor of PMLA and a film critic for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Dimock's lecture course, “Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner,” is available through Open Yale Courses. Dimock was a consultant for “Invitation to World Literature,” a 13-part series produced by WGBH and aired on PBS stations in the fall of 2010. A related Facebook forum, “Rethinking World Literature,” is still ongoing.
Publications
Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (1989); Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (1996); Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges (2002); “Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges,” special issue of American Literature, co-ed. (2002); Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (2006); “Transnational Citizenship and the Humanities,” special issue of ALH, co-ed. (2006); “American Literary Globalism,” special issue of ESQ, co-ed. (2006); Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature, co-ed. (2007); “Remapping Genre,” special issue of PMLA, co-ed. (2007); and Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival (2020). Her articles include, “Melville's Empire,” Raritan (1987); “Scarcity, Subjectivity, and Emerson,” boundary 2 (1990); “Rightful Subjectivity,” Yale Journal of Criticism (1990); “Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader,” American Literature (1991); “Deep Time: American Literature and World History,” American Literary History (2001); “Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review,” American Literature (2004);
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- The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and CriticismScholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points, pp. 147 - 158Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2020