 | Wai Chee Dimock |
Wai Chee Dimock, newly named as the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies, focuses her teaching and writing on American literature, law and literature, and world literature.
She is especially concerned with the relation of literature to law, philosophy and the history of science. She has authored two books, "Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism" and "Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy." Dimock is also co-editor of "Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations." In her recent work, she has attempted to link American literature to world literature, and she has two new books in progress: "Literature for the Planet" and "Deep Time: American Literature and World History." She has written numerous articles and essays, and recently co-edited a special issue of "American Literature."
At Yale, her courses have included "Nineteenth-Century American Literature," "Interdisciplinary Approaches to American Literature," "American Literature in a Transnational Context," "Classics and Their Progeny" and "Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner."
A graduate of Harvard University, Dimock earned her Ph.D. from Yale in 1982 and taught at Rutgers University, the University of California at San Diego and Brandeis University before joining the Yale faculty in 1997. At Yale, she has served as acting director of the Humanities Division and has been a member of numerous committees, including the Humanities Advisory Committee, the Graduate School Judiciary Committee, the English department's Senior Appointments Committee, the Executive Committee of the American studies department and the Tanner Lecture Committee, among others.
Dimock has been a frequent lecturer at interdisciplinary university conferences throughout the United States and abroad. She was a visiting associate professor of English at Harvard University in 1994.
Dimock's book "Residues of Justice" was a finalist for the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize, and she received the Dactyl Foundation Literary Theory Prize for her article "A Theory of Resonance." She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, and received the New Jersey Governor's Fellowship in the Humanities, among other honors.
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Dimock named William Lampson Professor
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