Wai Chee Dimock

Wai Chee Dimock has written widely on American literature. She is Wiilam Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. editor of Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA), 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.
She 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.
Books:
American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (Columbia UP, 2016)
Shades of the Planet (Princeton UP, 2007)
Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton UP, 2006)
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)