Happy New Year, Changes to the Board, and Future Conferences
Happy New Year from all of us at IDFWS and The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies! We hope that you are as excited for 2019 as we are. Our …
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Who We Are
Mission Statement
The International David Foster Wallace Society was founded to promote and sustain the long-term scholarly and independent study of David Foster Wallace’s writing. To these ends, the Society welcomes diverse, peer-reviewed scholarship and seeks to expand the critical boundaries of Wallace studies. We recognize and champion the visual, the alternative, and the literary: the presence of minds at work. The Society showcases a variety of projects—at conferences, on panels, in our print publication, The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies, and through other non-traditional modes of scholarly expression.
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Upcoming DFW
Conferences
SAMLA 2018 DFW Panel
MAPACA 2018 DFW Panel
Board Members & Officers
Our Team
Rob Short
PresidentÁndrea Laurencell Sheridan
Vice PresidentCorrie Baldauf
SecretaryMatt Bucher
Treasurer, Austin 2020 Conference ChairGrace Chipperfield
Membership Chair; JDFWS Associate EditorDiego Báez
Diversity Committee Co-ChairAshlie Kontos
Diversity Committee Co-ChairMatthew Luter
ALA/Conference CoordinatorClare Hayes-Brady
Editor-in-Chief, JDFWSMike Miley
Board MemberDave Laird
Membre du conseil, division de convexitéDanielle Ely
Board MemberNick Maniatis
Board MemberAlex Moran
Board Member, IDFWS/JDFWSRecent blog posts and other
Society News
Journal of DFW Studies: Letter from the Managing Editor, Dr. Tony McMahon
As you may have noticed from Twitter, Instagram, or some other form of social media about which Wallace definitely would have had something to say, the first issue of the …
Call for…Tattoos?
Yes. You read that right. Not to be outdone by Tiny Ewell, the Diversity Team is putting out a call for DFW or DFW-adjacent tattoos. Diversity Team members Danielle Ely …
New and Upcoming Work in Wallace Studies
Publications
The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace
The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace
Available August 2018. Best known for his masterpiece, Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace re-invented fiction and non-fiction for a generation with his groundbreaking and original work. Wallace’s desire to blend …
David Foster Wallace: Presences of the Other
David Foster Wallace: Presences of the Other
Available in Paperback February 2018. Why is David Foster Wallace so widely read? Why does his fiction and non-fiction continue to raise enthusiasm among an ever-growing variety of readers of …