About The Professor
Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies, focuses on the intersections between American literature and world cultures. She has written a book on Melville, Empire for Liberty (1989), a book on law and literature, Residues of Justice (1996), and put together several collaborative volumes: Rethinking Class (1994); Literature and Science (2002), a special issue of American Literature; and American Literary Globalism (2005), a special issue of ESQ. Her new book, Through Other Continents (2006), invokes the duration and extension of the planet to anchor American literature, reading it as part of the world's fabric, an effect of “deep time.”This is also the orientation of a coedited volume, /Shades of the Planet/ (2007). Dimock is now at work on a textbook, an anthology entitled /American Literature and the World. /Outside Yale, she is a consultant for "Reading the World," an educational series funded by the Annenberg Foundation and produced by WGBH, to be aired on PBS stations in the fall of 2010.
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