Wai Chee Dimock

Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She has published widely on American literature of every period, and is best known for Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (2007). Editor of PMLA, her essays have also appeared in Critical Inquiry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Her team-edited American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (2017) was published by Columbia University Press in January.

Articles

Virtual Enemy at the MIT Museum
“The Enemy,” the MIT Museum's first virtual reality exhibition, had begun. For the next hour, everything I experienced would be designed expressly for me.
Wai Chee DimockJan 8, 2018
- Film
Animating the Ocean
Wai Chee Dimock on the oceans of "Moana" and Jack London.
Wai Chee DimockFeb 3, 2017
- Film
The Queen of the Night Sings Hamlet
Wai Chee Dimock Stephen Frears's "Florence Foster Jenkins."
Wai Chee DimockSep 14, 2016
- Film
Lobster in Purgatory
On the irresolutions of Yorgos Lanthimos's "The Lobster".
Wai Chee DimockJun 18, 2016
- Film
Half-and-Half: Iñárritu Remixes James Fenimore Cooper
"The Revenant" turns a derogatory term into an existential condition, yielding a new visual field.
Wai Chee DimockFeb 16, 2016
- Film
Pixar and the Brain Scientists
"Inside Out" is billed as a "major emotion picture," so it is not surprising that "thought" is pretty much a bad word throughout.
Wai Chee DimockJul 12, 2015
- Film
Books in Space: Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar”
“Interstellar” is bookish to a fault.
Wai Chee DimockDec 25, 2014
- Film
A Boyhood Epic
On Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood'
Wai Chee DimockAug 1, 2014
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Infinite Thirst: Jim Jarmusch’s “Only Lovers Left Alive”
Einstein, relativity, quantum mechanics and, above all, literature, in Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive"
Wai Chee DimockMay 13, 2014
No Oscar: Inside Llewyn Davis
Wai Chee DimockFeb 24, 2014
Hunger Games, Number Games
Hunger Games numerology.
Wai Chee DimockDec 26, 2013
Umbilical Cords: Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity”
Alfonso Cuarón's new film is Gravity, about umbilical cords that never quite wither away, whether or not we know it or bargain for it.
Wai Chee DimockOct 16, 2013
Pacific Rim: Guillermo del Toro’s Fractal Shoes
Guillermo del Toro’s foot fetish
Wai Chee DimockJul 27, 2013
- Film
What’s Left to Say? Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby
Caleb Smith, John Irwin, T. Austin Graham, Wai Chee DimockJun 6, 2013