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.
CONTRIBUTOR 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....
Animating the Ocean
Wai Chee Dimock on the oceans of "Moana" and Jack London....
The Queen of the Night Sings Hamlet
Wai Chee Dimock Stephen Frears's "Florence Foster Jenkins."...
Lobster in Purgatory
On the irresolutions of Yorgos Lanthimos's "The Lobster"....
Half-and-Half: Iñárritu Remixes James Fenimore Cooper
"The Revenant" turns a derogatory term into an existential condition, yielding a new visual field....
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....
Books in Space: Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar”
“Interstellar” is bookish to a fault....
A Boyhood Epic
On Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood'...
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"...
No Oscar: Inside Llewyn Davis
WHY ONLY TWO nominations for Inside Llewyn Davis, and for two categories some would consider minor? By now, the film has ...
Hunger Games, Number Games
Hunger Games numerology....
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....
Pacific Rim: Guillermo del Toro’s Fractal Shoes
Guillermo del Toro’s foot fetish...
What’s Left to Say? Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby
Wai Chee Dimock, "Better Than the Yale Club" THAT'S WHAT NICK SAYS, at the end of the party in Tom ...
