Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Editor of PMLA and a film critic for the Los Angeles Review of Books, her work has also appeared in Critical Inquiry, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. Her team-edited anthology, American Literature in the World: From Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (2017), was just published by Columbia University Press.
Wai Chee Dimock
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5,000 Years of Climate Fiction
Kim Stanley Robinson is not the first to write about Manhattan under water. Others, notably Nathaniel Rich in Odds Against Tomorrow (2013), have also …
Virtual Roundtable on
“Description in the Novel”
This roundtable on description in the novel took place on May 3, 2016, at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Concluding the inaugural year of the Novel Theory Seminar, the roundtable featured presentations by Wai Chee Dimock, Heather Love, William Mills Todd III, J. Keith Vincent, and Cynthia Wall. To solicit brief position papers […]
Virtual Roundtable on the Library of Korean Literature
In this virtual roundtable, edited and introduced by Seo Hee Im, Koreanists and scholars of world literature reflect on five writers recently published in the Library of Korean Literature series by Dalkey Archive Press. • Joe Cleary on Choi In-hun, The Square • Wai Chee Dimock on Lee Ki-ho, At Least We Can Apologize • […]
