American academic (born 1953)
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]
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)
^ "@waicheedimock " on Twitter
^ "Wai Chee Dimock | American Studies" .
^ "Wai Chee Dimock | American Studies" .
^ "Wai Chee Dimock on living with risk" . May 2020. ,
^ "Can NASA help save the planet? Yes, with indigenous partners" . November 9, 2021.
^ "Wai Chee Dimock - Los Angeles Review of Books" . Lareviewofbooks/org . Retrieved August 11, 2017 .
^ "What Book Changed Your Mind?" . November 7, 2014.
^ Dimock, Wai Chee (September 7, 2022). "New-Climate-Fiction-Offers-Visions-for-Environmental-Justice" . The New York Times . ,
^ "Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera" . The New Yorker . June 4, 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2017 .
^ 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 .
^ "- Invitation to World Literature" . WGBH - Invitation to World Literature . Retrieved August 11, 2017 .
^ "Wai Chee Dimock | English" .
^ 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 .
^ "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 .
^ "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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