Wai Chee Dimock (born October 29, 1953) 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

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, and a researcher and writer at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Her essays have appeared in ''

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.'' Dimock was a consultant for "Invitation to World Literature," a 13-part series produced by WGBH, aired on

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in 2010. Her lecture course, "Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald," is available through

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. She graduated from

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in 1976 and Yale University in 1982.

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) * ''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)

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