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 …
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 …
Watching to Death by Tom Winchester
Watching to Death by Tom Winchester The Entertainment is arguably what drives forward, or at least ties together, most of the narrative in in David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel, Infinite Jest. …
MAPACA Follow-up: So, you took a blue pen…
So, you went to MAPACA 2018 and took a blue pen…now what? Thank you for your interest in the International David Foster Wallace Society! Or, thank you for your interest …
CFP for the ALA
The International David Foster Wallace Society will sponsor two panels at the 30th annual conference of the American Literature Association in Boston on May 23-26, 2019. We are seeking submissions …
How to Avoid being Totally Hosed: David Foster Wallace and Damien Echols
Written by Ándrea Laurencell Sheridan, Diversity Team Coordinator When I’m not spending my time diligently diversifying the International David Foster Wallace Society or teaching my seven sections of mainly introductory …
DFW Syllabus Project: Who’s Teaching Wallace? And Where?
Introduction written by Ashlie Kontos, Diversity Team Member I began searching for ways to incorporate David Foster Wallace’s essays into non-literature-based classrooms almost one year ago. I was needlessly worried that …
“Try to Stay Awake”: David Foster Wallace, the Political Media, and John McCain
Written by Mark Bresnan As the world reacted to the death of John McCain last weekend, David Foster Wallace’s 2000 profile of the senator was occasionally invoked— both in encomiums …
Join “The Empty Plenum” Reading Group
Wallace’s “The Empty Plenum” is one of his more challenging pieces of nonfiction. Lucky for everyone, Dominik Steinhilber has put together a reading group that’s going on NOW. Head over …