Born: 1953.

Education: Harvard University, BA, 1976; Yale University, PhD, 1982.

Dimock was assistant professor of English, Rutgers University, 1982–88; associate professor of English (with tenure), Rutgers University, 1988–90; associate professor of literature, University of California, San Diego, 1990–92; associate professor of English, Brandeis University, 1992–94; visiting associate professor of English, Harvard University, fall 1994; professor of English, Brandeis University, 1994–97; professor of English and American studies, Yale University, 1997–2002; William Lampson Professor of English and American studies, Yale University, 2003–present. She currently serves as editor of PMLA and a film critic for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Dimock's lecture course, “Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner,” is available through Open Yale Courses. Dimock was a consultant for “Invitation to World Literature,” a 13-part series produced by WGBH and aired on PBS stations in the fall of 2010. A related Facebook forum, “Rethinking World Literature,” is still ongoing.

Publications

Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (1989); Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (1996); Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges (2002); “Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges,” special issue of American Literature, co-ed. (2002); Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (2006); “Transnational Citizenship and the Humanities,” special issue of ALH, co-ed. (2006); “American Literary Globalism,” special issue of ESQ, co-ed. (2006); Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature, co-ed. (2007); “Remapping Genre,” special issue of PMLA, co-ed. (2007); and Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival (2020). Her articles include, “Melville's Empire,” Raritan (1987); “Scarcity, Subjectivity, and Emerson,” boundary 2 (1990); “Rightful Subjectivity,” Yale Journal of Criticism (1990); “Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader,” American Literature (1991); “Deep Time: American Literature and World History,” American Literary History (2001); “Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review,” American Literature (2004);