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 …
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: DFW Panels—Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association “David Foster Wallace” Call for Proposals November 8–10, 2018 Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, MD The American Studies Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American …
DFW Panel at SAMLA 2018
“I KNEW HIM … A FELLOW OF INFINITE JEST”: READING DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, [sic] TEN YEARS LATER It has been ten years since the untimely death of American writer David …
DFW18 CFP Deadline Extended to 1/16/2018
The abstract-submission deadline for the 5th annual International David Foster Wallace Conference at Illinois State University has been extended to January 16th. For more information, please see the conference website!
Call for Papers: “David Foster Wallace: Between Philosophy and Literature,” Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical, and Economic-Quantitative Sciences, G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara
The Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara’s Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical, and Economic-Quantitative Sciences announces it will host the international conference “David Foster Wallace: Between Philosophy and Literature” from the 18th to …
Call for Papers: “Great Male Narcissists” Panel, ALA 2018
The John Updike Society and the International David Foster Wallace Society are co-sponsoring a panel at the 29th annual conference of the American Literature Association in San Francisco on May …
Call for Papers: “Wallace & Media” Panel, ALA 2018
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. Much has been said and published on …
DFW & Diversity: Where are we now, and where are we going?
Written by Ándrea Sheridan, Coordinator, Diversity Team The following was my “application” email to be part of the IDFWS’s Diversity Team. I have edited slightly for the sake of currency, but …
The De-democratization of Reading: Amy Hungerford’s Objection to Reading DFW
Written by Ashlie M. Kontos ashlie.kontos@protonmail.com DISCLAIMER: This essay will in no way defend the misogynistic thoughts, attitudes, and/or behaviors exhibited by David Foster Wallace or any other male author. …