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 …
If you like DFW, check out these women writers…
Submitted by the Diversity Committee This list is the final in our series of lists. Please feel free to comment with your own thoughts, additions, or just to strike up …
Women Writers Read/Taught/Praised by DFW
This list is the fourth in a series of lists of women involved in David Foster Wallace studies and the DFW community. It is not complete, nor is it static. …
Women whose work on DFW is available for free on Academia.edu!
This list is the third in a series of lists of women involved in David Foster Wallace studies and the DFW community. It is not complete, nor is it static. …
Women’s Theses Dissertations on David Foster Wallace
This list is the next in a series of lists of women involved in David Foster Wallace studies and the DFW community. It is not complete, nor is it static. …