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Wai Chee Dimock

Wai Chee Dimock

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. icon

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5,000 Years of Climate Fiction

By Wai Chee Dimock

Kim Stanley Robinson is not the first to write about Manhattan under water. Others, notably Nathaniel Rich in Odds Against Tomorrow (2013), have also ...

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“Description in the Novel”

By Wai Chee Dimock, Heather Love, William Mills Todd III, J. Keith Vincent, & Cynthia Wall

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 ...

Virtual Roundtable on the Library of Korean Literature

By Joe Cleary, Wai Chee Dimock, Seo Hee Im, Charles La Shure, & Jini Kim Watson

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 ...

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