Wai Chee Dimock experiments with close readings across different widths of space, and across a range of time-scales. Her book, "Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time" (2006), received Honorable Mention for both the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association and the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. A collaborative volume, "Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature," further elaborates on these arguments.