{{Short description|American academic (born 1953)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Primary sources|date=June 2025}} '''Wai Chee Dimock''' (born October 29, 1953)<ref>{{Cite Twitter profile|waicheedimock}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/wai-chee-dimock|title = Wai Chee Dimock | American Studies}}</ref> and a researcher and writer at the Harvard University Center for the Environment.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/wai-chee-dimock|title = Wai Chee Dimock | American Studies}}</ref> Her essays have appeared in ''Artforum'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/202005/wai-chee-dimock-on-living-with-risk-82815|title=Wai Chee Dimock on living with risk|date=May 2020 }},</ref> ''The Hill'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/580821-can-nasa-help-save-the-planet-yes-with-indigenous-partners|title=Can NASA help save the planet? Yes, with indigenous partners|date=9 November 2021}}</ref>'' Los Angeles Review of Books'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/wai-chee-dimock|title=Wai Chee Dimock - Los Angeles Review of Books|website=Lareviewofbooks/org|access-date=11 August 2017}}</ref> ''Chronicle of Higher Education,''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-book-changed-your-mind/?cid=gen_sign_in| title=What Book Changed Your Mind? | date=7 November 2014 }}</ref> ''New York Times,''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/books/review/beauman-raymond-heathcock.html/|title=New-Climate-Fiction-Offers-Visions-for-Environmental-Justice|work=The New York Times |date=7 September 2022 |last1=Dimock |first1=Wai Chee }},</ref> ''New Yorker,''<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/walt-whitman-and-the-essence-of-opera|title=Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera|magazine=The New Yorker|date=4 June 2015|access-date=11 August 2017}}</ref> and ''Scientific American.''<ref>{{cite magazine | last=Dimock | first=Wai Chee | title=What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI | work=Scientific American | date=5 April 2022 | url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-ai-can-do-for-climate-change-and-what-climate-change-can-do-for-ai/ | access-date=20 June 2025}}</ref>
Dimock was a consultant for "Invitation to World Literature," a 13-part series produced by WGBH, aired on PBS in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Invitation-to-World-Literature-1217|title=- Invitation to World Literature|website=WGBH - Invitation to World Literature|access-date=11 August 2017}}</ref> Her lecture course, "Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald," is available through Open Yale Courses.
She graduated from Harvard College in 1976 and Yale University in 1982.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://english.yale.edu/people/tenured-and-tenure-track-faculty-professors/wai-chee-dimock|title = Wai Chee Dimock | English}}</ref>
==Books== * ''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)<ref>{{cite book|title=American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler|editor-first=Wai-Chee|editor-last=Dimock|date=31 January 2017|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0231157377}}</ref> * ''Shades of the Planet'' (Princeton UP, 2007)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8397.html/ |title=Dimock, W. And Buell, L., eds.: Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature. (Paperback) |access-date=2016-10-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330043536/http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8397.html |archive-date=2016-03-30 }}</ref> *''Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time'' (Princeton UP, 2006)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8296.html/ |title=Dimock, W.: Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time. (EBook and Paperback) |access-date=2016-10-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411062100/http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8296.html |archive-date=2016-04-11 }}</ref> * ''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)
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==External links== *[http://oyc.yale.edu/american-studies/amst-246 Open Yale Courses] *[https://www.facebook.com/pages/American-Literature-in-the-World/200660353327140?sk=wall American Literature in the World Facebook] *[http://amlitintheworld.yale.edu/2017-conference/ American Literature in the World graduate conference]
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