It’s been six short months since the inception of the DFW Society’s Diversity Committee, and we’re off to an exciting start!
The Committee presented a panel during DFW ’17, and the coordinators joined Ozwallace in Australia via Skype for an energizing, occasionally hilarious discussion.
We’ve also completed the first installments of an ongoing blog series. (You can read the DFW Society’s initial Statement on Equality and Inclusion and the Diversity Committee’s introductory post .)
We started by having each member of the Diversity Committee introduce themselves, with posts by Ryan Lackey, Cynthia Zhang, Danielle Ely, Ashlie Kontos, Diego Báez, and Andrea Sheridan.
Additionally, a number of guest contributors have reflected on their appreciation for slash problems with DFW:
- Sean Gandert offers “A Short Meditation on the Whiteness of David Foster Wallace.
- Rishi Dastidar composed a poetic, meta-mimical piece: “W/r/t“.
- And Nina Berman engaged in dialogue with an earlier post: “In Response to ‘One Woman, Who Loves DFW, Talks‘”
Finally, Diversity Committee member Ashlie Kontos has created incomparable listings of work by women on DFW:
- Women’s Voices in the World of DFW
- Scholarly Pieces by Women on DFW
- Women’s Theses and Dissertations on David Foster Wallace
- Women whose work on DFW is available for free on Academia.edu
- Women Writers Read/Taught/Praised by DFW
If you’re interested in contributing to our ongoing blog series, please contact diversity@dfwsociety.org.