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Wai Chee Dimock Department of English

Yale University New Haven, CT 06520

EDUCATION: Ph.D. Yale University, 1982 B.A. Harvard University, 1976

TEACHING: William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University, 2003- Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University, 1997-2002 Professor of English, Brandeis University, 1994-97 Visiting Associate Professor of English, Harvard University, Fall 1994 Associate Professor of English, Brandeis University, 1992-94 Associate Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego, 1990-92 Associate Professor of English (with tenure), Rutgers University, 1988-90 Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University, 1982-88 PUBLICATIONS: Books: American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler. Columbia Univ. Press, 2017 Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature, co-edited with Lawrence Buell.

Princeton Univ. Press, 2007. Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time. Princeton Univ. Press, 2006. Paperback, 2008. Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy. University of California Press, 1996.

Paperback, 1997.

Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations. Co-edited with Michael T. Gilmore. Columbia University Press, 1994.

Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism. Princeton University Press, 1989.

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Paperback, 1991. Special issue of journals: “Remapping Genre,” special issue of PMLA. Co-edited with Bruce Robbins (Oct. 2007). “Transnational Citizenship and the Humanities,” special issue of ALH. Co-edited with Gordon Hutner, 2006. “American Literary Globalism,” special issue of ESQ. Co-edited with Lawrence Buell, February 2006. . “Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges,” special issue of American Literature. Co-edited with Priscilla Wald. December 2002. TV and Online Media: “How to Read” podcast, October 20, 2017 “5000 Years of Climate Fiction,” Public Books, June 28, 2017 “Climate Changed,” New York Times Book Review, May 5, 2017 Virtual roundtable, “Description in the Novel,” Public Books, Nov 15, 2016 “The Classics aren’t Dead, or Irrelevant,” New York Times, August 31, 2015 “Understanding Atticus Finch,” Melissa Perry-Harris Show, MSNBC, July 19, 2015 “Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera,” New Yorker, June 4, 2015 “A Literary Scramble for Africa,” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 17, 20115 “What Book Changed your Mind?” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 7, 2014 Interview with BYU Radio, April, 2014 “Hearing Animals in Thoreau,” Chicago Humanities Festival, November 2, 2013 “Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner,” Open Yale Courses.

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“Gilgamesh on Three Continents,” WGTE Knowledge Stream, April 20, 2012 “Hemingway in Paris,” Five Books interview with The Browser, July 3, 2012 American Literature in the World: An Open Source Platform Literary adviser for a 13-part TV series, “Invitation to World Literature,” produced by WGBH, aired on PBS, fall 2010. Film Reviews: “Animating the Ocean,” LA Review of Books, Feb 3, 2017 “The Queen of the Night sings Hamlet,” LA Review of Books, Sept 14, 2016 “Lobster in Purgatory,” LA Review of Books, June 18, 2016 “Pixar and the Brain Scientists,” LA Review of Books, July 12, 2015 “Books in Space: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar,” LA Review of Books, Dec 25, 2014 “Richard Linklater’s Boyhood,” LA Review of Books, August 1, 2014 “Infinite Thirst: Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive,” LA Review of Books, May 15, 2014 “No Oscar: Inside Llewyn Davis,” LA Review of Books, Feb 24, 2014 “Hunger Games, Number Games,” LA Review of Books, December 20, 2013, “Umbilical Cords: Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity,” LA Review of Books, October 10, 2013, “Pacific Rim: Guillermo del Toro’s Fractal Shoes,” LA Review of Books, July 27, 2013. “Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby,” LA Review of Books, June 6, 2013 Essays: “Experimental Humanities,” Editor’s Column, PMLA, March 2017 “Infrastructure Art,” Editor’s Column, PMLA, January 2017

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“Sound Ecologies,” in Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, ed. Stephen Siperstein, Shane Hall, and Stephanie LeMenager. Routledge, 2017. “Crowdsourcing Penelope: Margaret Atwood, Coen Brothers, Richard Linklater,” Comparative Literature, September 2015, 319-332. “Early American Literature as a Networked Field,” Early American Literature January 2015: 103-24 “Weak Theory: Henry James, Colm Tóibín, W. B. Yeats.” Critical Inquiry 39 (Summer 2013): 732-753. “Low Epic: A Response to Mark McGurl,” Critical Inquiry 39 (Spring 2013): 614-631. “Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents,” English Language Notes 51 (spring/summer 2013): 19-33. “Migration Across Genres,” in The Work of Genre: Selected Essays from the English Institute. ACLS Humanities E-Books, 2011. 96-128. “World Literature on Facebook,” PMLA 126 (May 2011), 730-36. “Dante, Schelling, and Longfellow in the Classroom,” Dante Studies (2010), 65-69. “War in Several Tongues,” in Globalizing American Studies, ed. Brian Edwards and Dilip Gaonkar. University of Chicago Press, 2010. 269-82. “Hemispheric Islam: Continents and Centuries for American Literature,” American Literary History 21 (Spring 2009): 28-52. “Three Wars: Henry James and Others,” Henry James Review (Winter 2009): 1-9. “American Literature and Islamic Time,” in Teaching World Literature, ed. David Damrosch. MLA , 2009. 306-316. “World History According to Katrina,” special issue of Differences 19 (summer 2008): 35-53. “The Egyptian Pronoun: Lyric, Novel, The Book of the Dead,” special issue on “Literary History in the Global Age,” New Literary History 39 (summer 2008): 619-644. “Epic and Lyric: The Aegean, the Nile, and Whitman.” in How the Future becomes the Present, ed. David Blake and Michael Robertson. U of Iowa Press, 2008. “After Troy: Homer, Euripides, Total War” in Rethinking Tragedy, ed. Rita Felski. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2008, 66-81.

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“Genres as Fields of Knowledge.” Introduction to special issue, “Remapping Genre,” PMLA

(October 2007), 1377-88. “Scales of Aggregation: Prenational, Subnational, Transnational,” Introduction to special issue of ALH, May 2006, 219-228. “The Hurricane and the Nation,” Afterword to special issue of ESQ, February 2006. “Genre as World System: Epic and Novel on Four Continents,” Narrative (Jan 2006): 85-101. “Science Fiction as World Tribunal,” in Law and Popular Culture. Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. “Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review,” American

Literature (Sept. 2004), 525-47. “Literary Studies Against Newtonian Mechanics,” special issue on “Afterlives of Romanticism,” SAQ (Winter 2003), 153-178. “Planetary Time and Global Translation,” Common Knowledge 9 (Fall 2003), 488-507. “Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War,” American Literature 74 (December 2002),

911-931. “Prenational Time: Novel, Epic, Henry James,” special issue of the Henry James Review on

“Global James” (Fall 2003), 215-25. “Deep Time: American Literature and World History,” American Literary History (Winter 2001),

755-775. “Literature for the Planet,” PMLA 116 (Jan 2001), 173-188. “Rules of Law, Laws of Science,” Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (Summer 2001),

101-123. “An Ethics of Care in Law and Science,” Feminist Studies, (Summer 2001), 510-513. “Reply,” exchange with Ellen Spolsky on “A Theory of Resonance,” PMLA (March 1999),

222-223. “Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, Science,” Yale Journal of Law & the

Humanities (summer 1998), 487-504. "A Theory of Resonance," PMLA (October 1997), 1060-71.

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"Cognition as a Category of Literary Analysis," American Literature 67 (December 1995), 825-831.

"Whitman, Syntax, and Political Theory," in Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies, ed. Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman (Oxford University Press, 1995), 62-79. "Gender, the Market, and the Non-trivial in James," Henry James Review 15 (Winter 1994), 24-30. "Criminal Law, Female Virtue, and the Rise of Liberalism," Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 4 (1992), 209-47. "Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader," American Literature 64 (December 1991),

601-622. Reprinted in Feminisms, ed, Robin Warhol (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1995); Readers in History, ed. John Machor (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993); and in New Historicism, ed.T. Tomiyama (Seijo University, Japan, 1994).

"Kate Chopin," in American Women Writers, ed. Elaine Showalter (Scribners, 1991), 63-75. "Rightful Subjectivity," Yale Journal of Criticism 4 (Fall 1990), 25-52. "The Economy of Pain: The Case of Howells," Raritan 9 (Spring 1990), 99-119. Reprinted in New Essays on "The Rise of Silas Lapham,” ed. Donald Pease (Cambridge University Press, 1991), 67-90. "Scarcity, Subjectivity, and Emerson," Boundary 2, 17 (Spring 1990), 83-99. Reprinted in The New Americanists, ed. Donald Pease (Duke University Press, 1991). "Melville's Empire," Raritan 7 (Fall 1987), 93-112. Reprinted in Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism, ed. Jonathan Arac and Harriet Ritvo (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). "Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth," PMLA 100 (October 1985), 783-792.

Reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Edith Wharton, ed. Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1986), 123-137; and in Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism: "The House of Mirth," ed. Shari Benstock (Bedford-St. Martin, 1993). "Pierre: Domestic Confidence Game and the Drama of Knowledge," Studies in the Novel 16

(Winter 1984), 396-409. "Typee: Melville's Critique of Community," ESQ 30 (1st quarter 1984), 27-39. "White-Jacket: Authors and Audiences," Nineteenth-Century Fiction 36 (December 1981),

296-317. Reprinted in New Century Views: Melville, ed. Myra Jehlen (Prentice Hall, 1994).

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Review Essays "Slippery Connections," American Literary History 2 (Spring 1990), 131-143. "Reinventing Literary History," American Quarterly 39 (Summer 1987), 287-291. "Listening to Emerson," Georgia Review 40 (Summer 1986), 572-576. "Scribbling Women," Georgia Review 38 (Winter 1984), 869-873. Reviews and Notes Review of Melville’s Anatomies, by Samuel Otter. Modern Philology (2000). Review of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville, by Robert Levine. Modern Philology (February 1992). Review of Natural Right and the American Imagination, by Catherine Zuckert, Journal of American History (June 1991), 128-129. LECTURES, SEMINARS, COLLOQUIA:

“Endangered Humanities and Endangered Planet,” Vassar College, Oct 26, 2017 Stringer Lecture, University of Maryland, Oct 12, 2017 Keynote, American Studies Association of Korea, September 25, 2017 Keynote, Great Lakes College Association, June 3, 2017 “Description in the Novel” roundtable, Harvard University, April 15, 2017

“Reparative Transnational Studies,” MLA, Jan 6, 2017 “Weak Environmentalism,” Modernist Studies Association, Nov 17, 2016 Keynote, Translation Studies Symposium, NYU, September 30, 2016 “Climate Fiction,” MLA, Jan 6, 2016 “Anglophone Visual Language,” University of Bristol, England, May 14, 2015

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“Weak Theory,” Johns Hopkins University, April 28, 2015 Drake Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, March 9-13, 2015 Presidential Forum, Modern Language Association, Vancouver, Jan 9, 2015 “Weak Theory,” Modernist Studies Association, Pittsburgh, Nov 8, 2014 “Rethinking World Literature,” Connecticut College, Oct 29, 2014 “Faulkner Networked,” Harvard American Studies Workshop, Oct 23, 2014 “Faulkner Networked,” Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, July 20, 2014 “Thoreau and the Sixth Extinction,” American Literature Association, May 23, 2014 Mellon Humanities Symposium, UCLA, May 9, 2014 “Weak Theory,” Brigham Young University, March 14, 2014 “Weak Theory,” Tufts University, March 11, 2014

“Louise Erdrich and Mary Rowlandson” MLA, Chicago, January 10, 2014 Honorary Doctorate Public Lecture, Hong Kong Baptist University, November 26, 2013 “Hearing Animals in Thoreau,” Chicago Humanities Festival, November 2, 2013 Ida Beam Lectures, University of Iowa, October 22-24, 2013 Keynote, Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Guilford College, October 18, 2013 “Faulkner’s Peripheral Network,” Yale Americanist Colloquim, October 10, 2013 Keynote, “Receptions” conference, University of California, Davis, September 28, 2913 Seminar on “Recycling the Epic,” Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, July 8-18, 2013. “Recycling the Epic,” Globalizing Literary Genres Conference, University of Munich, June 27, 2013. “Boundless Labor: C. L. R. James, Herman Melville, Frank Stella,” Beyond a Boundary Conference, University of Glasgow, May 10, 2013

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“Recycling Gilgamesh: Louisiana, Vietnam, Iraq,” Gordon Lecture, University of Glasgow, May 8, 2013 “Transnational American Studies: A Roundtable,” MLA, Boston, January 6, 2013 “Law and Literature: State of the Field,” MLA, Boston, January 3, 2013 “Recycling the Epic,” at “Turn, Turn, Turn: a Symposium,” Pennsylvania State University, October 8, 2012 “Who’s Irish? Henry James, Colm Tóibín, Gish Jen,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 7, 2012 “Falling Bodies: Dresden, Baghdad, New York,” University of Hong Kong, June 5, 2012 Keynote, “Is Australian Literature a World Literature,” University of Sydney, May 24, 2012 Faculty Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, April 30 – May 4, 2012 Summers Memorial Lecture, University of Toledo, April 20, 2012 “Gibraltar and Beyond: James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Paul Bowles,” University of Oxford, England, March 23, 2012 “Gilgamesh on Three Continents,” University of Miami, March 6, 2012 Keynote, “World, Globe, Planet,” UCLA graduate conference, February 24, 2012 Respondent, “Velocities of Ecocriticism,” MLA, Seattle, Jan 6, 2012 Spector Lecture, McGill University, November 21, 2011 “American Literature in the World,” Rethinking World Literature Conference, U of Maryland, November 4, 2011 Keynote, “American Bodies,” Graduate Conference, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany, May 27, 2011 “Two-Way Diaspora,” Wake Forest University, April 25, 2011 Keynote, “Tuning Out the Nation, “ SUNY Albany, April 2, 2011 Ward-Phillips Lectures, University of Notre Dame, March 7-9, 2011 “No Jargon,” MLA, Los Angeles, January 7, 2011

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Respondent, “Form, Genre, Judgment,” MLA, Los Angeles, January 6, 2011 “Many Islams,” University of Leipzig, Germany, October 28, 2010 “Literature as Public Humanities,” Wesleyan University, September 27, 2010 “Thoreau’s Green Infrastructure,” Kyoto University, June 17, 2010 “Literature as Public Humanities,” Kobe University, June 16, 2010 “Thoreau’s Green Infrastructure,” Keio University, Tokyo, June 15, 2010 “Literature as Public Humanities,” Rykkyu University, Tokyo, June 14, 2009 “Migrating Words,” Chiba University, Japan, June 12, 2009 “Thoreau’s Green Infrastructure,” C-19 Conference, State College, May 21, 2009 “Who’s Irish: Henry James, Colm Toibin, James Joyce, Gish Jen,” Boston University, March 18, 2009 “Literature as Public Humanities,” Bryn Mawr College, March 15, 2009 “Literature as Public Humanites,” MLA, December 29, 2009 “The Long Nineteenth Century,” MLA, December 29, 2009 “Subjunctive Time,” Tufts Univ., October 15, 2009 “Migration Across Genres,” English Institute, Harvard Univ., September 11, 2009 Seminar, “High to Low,” School of Criticism and Theory, Cornel Univ., July 14-16. 2009 Keynote, “Literature, Geography, Translation” Conference, Uppsala Univ. Sweden, June 11-13, 2009 “Thoreau’s Green Infrastructure,” American Literature Association, May 23, 2009 Keynote, Mary Louise White Symposium on World Literature, SUNY Fredonia, May 6-7, 2009 Respondent, Tanner Lectures, UC Berkeley, April 21-23, 2009 “Three Wars,” Syracuse Univ., April 13, 2009 Robert Knoll Lecture, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, April 1, 2009

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“Rethinking the Nation” seminar, ACLA, March 27-29, 2009 “Three Wars,” Univ. of Tennessee, March 12, 2009 “Three Wars,” Williams College, February 10, 2009 “Global Histories of Prose Fiction?” MLA, December 28, 2008 “Humanities for the Twenty-first Century,” UC Berkeley, November 24, 2008 “Counterfactual Realism,” Carnegie Mellon Univ., October 30, 2008 “National, International, Planetary,” ASA, October 17, 2008 “Three Wars: Henry James and Others,” Rutgers Univ. October 9, 2008 “Humanities for the Twenty-first Century,” Swarthmore College, September 25, 2008 Keynote, Henry James Society, July 11-12, 2008 Keynote, ADE Seminar, June 5-6, 2008 “Symptomatic Reading,” NYU-Columbia Univ. Conference, May 1-2, 2008 “State of the Profession,” University of Colorado, Boulder, April 3-4, 2008 “Transatlantic Islam,” Indiana University, March 18, 2008 “Year of the Atlantic World” lecture, Kinnesaw State University, Jan 31, 2008 Respondent to “Global Translations,” MLA, Chicago, Dec. 27, 2007 “Fractals: The Micro in a Global World,” MLA, Chicago, Dec. 27, 2007 “Hemispheric Islam,” Hong Kong Baptist College, Nov. 19, 2007 “World History according to Katrina,” U of Michigan, Oct. 18, 2007 “Hemispheric Islam,” U of Wisconsin, Madison, Sept. 27, 2007 “Transatlantic Islam,” Keynote, Symbiosis Conference, London, July 12-14, 2007 Chair, “Transcendental Cosmopolitanism,” ALA, May 25, 2007

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“Terrible Beauty,” Aesthetics Conference, Huntington Library, May 18-19, 2007 “Dante, Schelling, and Longfellow in the Classroom,” Dante Society, Cambridge, May 5, 2007 “After Troy: Homer, Euripides, Total War,” UT Austin, April 10, 2007 University of Texas Law and Humanities Seminar, April 9, 2007 “World History According to Katrina,” Colby College, March 15, 2007 “World History According to Katrina,” UC Santa Barbara, March 13, 2007 “Epic and Lyric: The Aegean, the Nile, and Whitman,” MLA, Dec 29, 2006 Speaker, History and Literature Centennial, Harvard University, Oct 14, 2006 “World History According to Katrina,” American Studies Association, Oakland, Oct 12, 2006 “Global Civil Society,” Texas A & M University, September 28, 2006 “Global Civil Society,” Americanist Colloquium, Princeton University, September 20, 2006 “Transatlantic Islam,” Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe Conference, Oxford University, England, July 13-15, 2006 “World History According to Katrina,” States of Emergency Conference, U of Wisconsin, Madison, April 21, 2006 “Global Civil Society,” University of Virginia, March 30, 2006 “What a Journal Article Can Do?” MLA December 2005 “Against Race: Walter Benn Michaels and Paul Gilroy,” MLA December 2005 “Trans-Pacific Modernisms,” Princeton Univ. Nov 19, 2005 Edward Hirsch Memorial Lecture, Brown Univ. Oct 12, 2005 “Whitman Among the Greeks,” Sesquicentennial Symposium, Sept 23, 2005 “Whitman for the Twenty-first Century,” American Literature Association, May 28, 2005 “Thoreau on Three Continents,” American Literature Association, May 27, 2005 “Globalizing American Studies,” Northwestern Univ. May 20, 2005

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Lacay Lecture, Georgetown Univ. April 25, 2005 Plenary Lecture, Narrative Conference, Louisville, April 9, 2005 Lionel Trilling Seminar, Columbia Univ. April 5, 2005 Beaver Brook Lecture, Connecticut College, April 4, 2005 “Transnational Citizenship and the Humanities,” Univ of Illinois, March 14, 2005 “Global Civil Society,” Beijing Foreign Studies Univ. March 10, 2005 “English, French, Italian: American Literature According to Hawthorne,” Peking Univ. March 8, 2005 “Planetary Dante,” MLA December 2004 “Global Civil Society,” Washington Univ. Nov 18, 2004 “Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution,” Univ. of Wisconsin, Oct 15, 2004 “Margaret Fuller,” Dartmouth American Studies Institute, June 24, 2004 “The Planetary Dead,” Conference in honor of Masao Miyoshi, New York University, April 29, 2004 “Addressing Dialogue” graduate student conference, keynote speaker, Harvard University, April 8,

2004 “Planetary Time: Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution,” SUNY, Buffalo, March 10,

2004 “Three-Dimensional Globalism,” MLA, San Diego, Dec 28, 2003 “Deep Time, World Feminism,” Central European University, Budapest, November 28, 2003 “Deep Time, World Feminism: Margaret Fuller,” University of Toronto, November 21, 2003 “American Literature in a Global Context,” American Studies Association meeting, Hartford,

October 18, 2003 “American Literature and Planetary Time,” seminar, School of Criticism and Theory, July 14-18,

2003 “Science Fiction as World Tribunal,” Faculty of Laws, University College London, June 30, 2003

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“Emerson in the Twenty-First Century,” Emerson Bicentennial Forum, Harvard University, April

2, 2003 “Planetary Time and Global Translation,” Duke University, March 11, 2003 “Weird Copula: Dante and the Lobster,” Beckett Symposium, Sydney, Australia, January 8, 2003 “Planetary Time in Concord,” MLA, New York, December 29, 2002 “Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War,” University of Michigan, Oct 11, 2002 “Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War,” Dartmouth American Studies Institute, June 18,

2002 “Literary Tribunal and World Governance,” Law Conference, University of Wales, Aberystwyth,

March 8, 2002 “Deep Time: American Literature and World History,” Columbia University, November 16, 2002 “Deep Time: Emerson, Malcolm X, Hybrid Islam,” ALA Conference, Santa Fe, October 27, 2001 “Jurisdictions of Law and Literature,” Tel Aviv University Law School, June 3, 2001 “Rethinking American Literary Studies,” Yale Americanist Colloquium, April 26, 2001 “Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell and Temporal Hybridity,” ACLA, Boulder, April 21, 2001 “Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell and Temporal Hybridity,” Comparative Literature

Symposium, SUNY Buffalo, March 31, 2001 “Heuristic Allies,” Society of Literature and Science, MLA, Washington DC, 2000 “New Directions for the Twentieth-First Century,” Nineteenth- Century American Literature

Division, MLA, Washington 2000 “Literature for the Planet,” University of Pennsylvania, November 21, 2000 “Global Humanities 2000: A Symposium,” Dartmouth College, October 21, 2000 “The Place of Law and the Time of Culture,” Amherst College, October 2, 2000 Seminar on Residues of Justice, Marist College, May 19, 2000 “What Frederick Douglass says to Kant, with Help from Einstein,” Law, Literature and Culture: An

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Interdisciplinary Symposium, CUNY Graduate Center, May 12, 2000 “The Rule of Law in Literature and Science,” Cultural Studies and the Law Symposium, Yale Law

School, April 15, 2000 “Literature for the Planet,” Michigan State University, April 7, 2000 “State of the Art” symposium, Columbia University, March 30, 2000 Plenary Panel, “Working Across the Disciplines,” American Comparative Literature Association,

February 26, 2000 “Institutional Ecologies: A Roundtable on Literature and Science, Literature and Medicine,”

MLA, December 27, 1999 “Reading Immigration in its American and Extranational Contexts,” MLA, December 28, 1999 “Laws of Physics, Laws of Biology, Laws of Literature,” Society for Literature and Science,

October 8, 1999 Plenary Lecture, “What Frederick Douglass says to Kant, with Help from Einstein,” Nordic

American Studies Association, Turku, Finland, August 12, 1999 “The Strange Career of Harriet Beecher Stowe,” Yale Alumni Association, June 4, 1999 “Feminisms in an Interdisciplinary Context,” MLA, December 28, 1998 “What Frederick Douglass says to Kant, with Help from Einstein, Law and Literature Conference,

University College, London, June 29-30, 1998 “Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights,” University of Washington, May 15, 1998 “Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights,” University of California, Berkeley, March 16, 1998 “Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights,” Harvard University, March 5, 1998 “An Ethics of Space,” Boston University, February 5, 1998 "Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights," Lecture Series on New Directions in Law and the

Humanities, Yale University, September 23, 1997 "Gender and Reason in the Early Republic," Society of Historians of the Early Republic, July 18,

1997 "An Ethics of Space," Edith Wharton Celebration at the Mount, June 12, 1997

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"A Theory of Resonance," Tufts University, April 22, 1997 "A Different Multiculturalism," Aarhus University, Denmark, March 7, 1997 "Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights," University of Miami, February 27, 1997 "An Ethics of the Finite," MLA Washington D.C., 1996 "A Theory of Resonance," Johns Hopkins University, October 31, 1996 "Melville's Resonances," MLA 1995 "Rights and Reason," Wesleyan University, October 26, 1995 "Residues of Justice: The Awakening," Yale University, September 27, 1995 "Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights," Conference on "Making Americans, Making New

Literatures," the Huntington Library, September 22-23, 1995

"The Sacred Rights of the Weak," Respondent. Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, April 11, 1995

"Cognition as a Category of Literary Analysis," MLA San Diego, 1994 "Uneven Development: American Realism and Cultural History," John F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie

Universitat, Berlin. November 17-19, 1994 "Hawthorne and History," Respondent. Hawthorne Society. Conference, Concord, Massachusetts,

June 1994 "Teaching the Canonical with the Non-canonical," American Literature Association, San Diego,

June 2, 1994 "Marks of Gender and the Crisis of Legal Forms," Roundtable. Pembroke Center, Brown

University, March 18-19, 1994 "Antebellum Political Culture and its Discontents," Chair. American Studies Association, Boston,

November 7, 1993 "American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract," Respondent, Center for Literary

and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, November 3, 1993 "The Feminization of the American Subject During an Era of Revolutionary Change," Respondent.

Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College,

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June 12, 1993 "Gender, the Market, and the Non-Trivial in James," Henry James Sesquicentennial Conference,

New York University, June 2, 1993 "Class, Gender, and a History of Metonymy," Symposium on American Literature and Culture,

University of Arizona, March 5, 1993. "Radius of Pertinence, Limits of Justice," Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard

University, December 3, 1992 "Whitman, Syntax, and Political Theory," Whitman Conference, University of Pennsylvania,

October 15-17, 1992 Seminar Leader, Seminar on Historicisms and Cultural Critiques, Pennsylvania State University,

June 25-30, 1992 Two-day presentation at the American Literature Seminar, Yale University, February 13-14, 1992 "Criminal Law and Poetic Justice," MLA, San Francisco, 1991 "Criminal Law and Poetic Justice," Princeton University, December 12, 1991 "Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader," California Institute of Technology, November 8,

1991 "Gender, History, and Melville," Melville Centennial Conference Pittsfield, Massachusetts, May

18, 1991 "Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader," Columbia University, March 28, 1991. "Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader," Brandeis University, March 27, 1991. "Marginally Criminal: Male Subjectivity in Sister Carrie," MLA, Chicago, 1990. "The New Melville: Texts and Contexts," MLA, Chicago, 1990. "The Euro-American Imagination and its Racial Others." Respondent, American Studies

Association Convention, New Orleans, 1990. "Legal History and Literary Scholarship." Colloquium. Texas A & M University, October 18,

1990. "Historicizing the Reader: Feminism, New Historicism, and The Yellow Wallpaper," Texas A & M

University, October 18, 1990.

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"The Yellow Wallpaper and the Organization of Knowledge," American Literature Conference,

San Diego, 1990. "Rights, Evidence, and The Awakening." Colloquium. University of Oregon, April 20, 1990. "Liability and Obligation," Oregon Humanities Center, April 19, 1990. "Professionalism, Feminism, New Historicism," Conference on "History Today," Rutgers

University, March 2, 1990. "Legal Subjectivity," University of California, San Diego, February 9, 1990. "Floating Signifiers: Class and Gender in Cooper," MLA, Washington, 1989. "Tracing the Empire: Exoticism, Expansionism, and 'American' Studies." Respondent. American

Studies Association Convention, Toronto, 1989. "Professionalization of the Self." Respondent. Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard

University, October 19, 1989. "Scarcity, Pain, and the Political Economy of Selfhood," MLA, New Orleans, 1988. "Author as Monarch," MLA, New Orleans, 1988. "The Economy of Pain," Faculty Lecture Series, Rutgers University, December 7, 1988. "Imperialism and Literature." Colloquium. Rutgers University, April 1987. "Confidence in The Confidence-Man," MLA, New York, 1986. "Economy, Labor, and Language in Walden," MLA, Chicago, 1985. "'Monstrous Pictures': Representation and its Discontents," NEMLA, Hartford, 1985. "White-Jacket: Authors and Audiences," MLA, New York, 1981. HONORS AND AWARDS: Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, Hong Kong Baptist University, November 25, 2013 James Russell Lowell Prize. Honorable Mention. For Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time, 2007 Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association. Honorable Mention. For Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time, 2007 Dactyl Foundation Literary Theory Prize, for “A Theory of Resonance,” 1998

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James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association. Honorable Mention. For Residues of Justice, 1996 NEH Fellowship, 1995-96 New Jersey Governor's Fellowship in the Humanities, 1989-90 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1985-86 Phi Beta Kappa, Radcliffe College, 1975 SERVICE: Fellowship Reviewer, American Academy in Berlin, 2012 Fellowship Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund, 2012 Reviewer, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2012 Fellowship Reviewer, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2003- Fellowship Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2011 Fellowship Reviewer, Mellon Foundation, 2009 Fellowship Selection Committee, American Council of Learned Societies, 2008-2010 Fellowship Selection Committee, American Antiquarian Society, 2007 Fellowship Selection Committee, Huntington Library, 2001-2003 Board of Editors: PMLA (2004-6); American Literature (1990-92); New Literary History; ELN; MLQ; Journal of American Studies (UK). James Russell Lowell Prize Selection Committee, MLA, 2008-2009 Hubbell Medal Selection Committee, MLA, 2006-8 Prose Fiction Division Executive Committee, MLA, 2011-2013 Committee on Honors and Awards, MLA, 2012-14 Acting Director, Humanities Division, Yale University, Spring 2002 Humanities Divisional Committee, Yale University, 1999-2002, 2007-8 Director of Graduate Studies, American Studies, Yale University, 2003-4

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Beinecke Fellowship Selection Committee, 2012, 2013 NEASC Committee, 2010 American Studies Reappointment Committee, 2010 Senior Appointments Committee, English Dept, 2005-6, 2007-8, 2010-11 Graduate Admissions Committee, English Department, 2005 – Executive Committee, American Studies, 1997- Graduate Admissions Committee, American Studies, 2013 Yale College Course of Study Committee, 2004-2005 Graduate School Judiciary Committee, Yale Univ. 2001-2003 Tanner Lectures Committee, Yale University, 1999-2002 External Review of the English Department, Macalester College, 2002. Reader, PMLA, American Literary History, American Quarterly. Reader, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, Duke University Press, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press. Director of Graduate Studies, English Department, Brandeis University, 1993-1995. Search Committee for new Provost, Brandeis University, 1993-94 University Search Committee for Director of Women's Studies, Rutgers University, 1989. Honors Examiner, Swarthmore College, 1986, 1987. Outside evaluator for tenure and reappointment University of California, Berkeley, 1986;

California Institute of Technology, 1992; Hofstra University, 1992; University of California, Riverside, 1992; City College, City University of New York, 1993; University of Southern California, 1993; University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994; Duke University, 1994; Yale University, 1995; University of Miami, 1995; University of California, Berkeley, 1995; University of Pennsylvania, 1996; Boston University, 1997; Cornell University, 1997; Michigan State University, 1998; University of Kentucky, 1998; University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998; University of Pennsylvania, 1998; University of Michigan, 1999; Duke

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University, 1999; University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999; New York University, 2000; University of Iowa, 2000; University of Michigan, 2000; University of Texas, Austin, 2001; Rutgers University, 2001; Johns Hopkins University, 2002; Stanford University, 2002; Emory University, 2003; University of Toronto, 2003; University of Washington, 2003; University of Chicago, 2003; Harvard University, 2003; Vanderbilt University, 2004; Ohio State University, 2004; Rutgers University, 2004; Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2004; Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 2004; University of Wisconsin, 2005; University of Pennsylvania, 2005; Cornell University, 2005; University of Denver, 2005; New York University, 2005; University of Texas, Austin, 2005; Fordham University, 2006; U of Maryland, 2006; U of Pennsylvania, 2007; Washington U 2007; Stanford U 2007; U of Colorado, Denver, 2007, Mount Holyoke College, 2007; U of California, Irvine, 2008; Dartmouth College, 2008; U of California, Santa Cruz, 2008;

MIT, 2009; Indiana, 2009; University of Virginia, 2009; Harvard Univ., 2009; Macalester College, 2009; University of Virginia, 2010; University of Tennessee, 2010; University of Pittsburgh, 2010; Marquette University, 2010; University of Toronto, 2010; MIT, 2011; Stanford University, 2011; University of Illinois, 2011; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2011; University of Notre Dame, 2011; University of Texas, Austin, 2011; University of Aberystwyth, 2012; Northeastern University, 2012; Amherst College, 2012; University of Tennessee, 2012; Syracuse University, 2012; Columbia University, 2012.