Wai Chee Dimock


Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, has written widely on American literature. Editor of PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, and a film critic for the Los Angeles Review of Books, her work has also appeared in Critical Inquiry, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New Yorker.
and the New York Times.
Dimock was a consultant for "Invitation to World Literature," a 13-part series produced by WGBH, and aired on PBS in the fall of 2010. A related Facebook forum, "Rethinking World Literature," is ongoing. Her lecture course, "Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald," is available through Open Yale Courses.
She graduated from Harvard College in 1976 and Yale University in 1982.

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