Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies (Yale University)
Reading Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Sandpiper” along with William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence,” the talk makes a case for the continuing resonances of two poets who, writing before climate change was an available term, nonetheless spoke to the vulnerabilities of the planet — of humans and nonhumans — in a way newly meaningful in the climate-endangered twenty-first century.
Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Editor of PMLA, she also writes for Critical Inquiry, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Los Angeles Review of Books, 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. Her new book, Weak Planet: From Vulnerability to Resilience, is forthcoming from U of Chicago Press. Her lecture, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, is available from Open Yale courses.
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William Kirby I truly enjoyed Professor Dimock’s lecture this past Monday titled “William Blake and Elizabeth Bishop in the Anthropocene”. It was an intricate presentation that incorporated real life problems with past ... - Bridging the Emotional Disconnect March 18, 2019
egrubman This week’s lecture by Dr. Wai Chee Dimok seemed to be an incredibly appropriate continuation of the subject matter in this lecture series. As noted by others, it felt very ... - Science and Humanities Collaboration March 18, 2019
Adam Zarfos This lecture from Dr. Wai Chee Dimok was very enlightening and encouraging because it really emphasized the importance or collaboration between the science and humanities. She was able to do ... - Emotion-less Science and Fact-less Literature March 18, 2019
Kallie Hutchinson Dr. Wai Chee Dimok’s lecture has allowed me to consider the potential intersections that exist between science and literature. Dr. Dimok suggested that the potential failures of scientists in inspiring people ... - Science and The Humanities: A Recipe for Success March 18, 2019
Lyla Jones On March 11th, Wai Chee Dimock, a english professor at Yale University, added to our series through a lecture titled, “William Blake and Elizabeth Bishop in the Anthropocene.” The speaker ... - Using Literature to Understand Science March 18, 2019
Grace Eagan Professor Wai Chee Dimock from Yale University gave a similar talk to that of professor Nathan Hensley of Georgetown. In both instances the professors proposed that in order to understand ... - Combatting Weak Environmentalism March 17, 2019
easogu21 I found Dr. Wai Chee Dimok’s lecture very intriguing. Using literature, she was able to explore some ideas of climate change. Using Elizabeth Bishop and William Blake’s work, she was ... - The Link Between Science and the Humanities March 17, 2019
Nathaniel Dowd My overall impressions of this talk was that it was somewhat similar to the talk linking themes from Alice in Wonderland to some issues of the current state of the ... - One Piece to the Puzzle March 14, 2019
Isabella Scribano To start, I am relatively unversed in the English world (I’m a science person if you will) and had to go in and do slight research on Elizabeth Bishop and ... - Science or Humanities? A False Dichotomy March 12, 2019
Audrey Bell In some ways, Dr. Wai Chee Dimok’s lecture reminded me of a previous talk in the series, Dr. Hensley’s lecture on the parallels between the transitionary periods of the beginning ...