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 …
Lost David Foster Wallace Interview from 1989
The great literary critic and scholar Steven Moore reached out to us this month to say that he had discovered an interview with David Foster Wallace in an obscure and …
“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 …
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: “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 …
Details of ALA Wallace Panels Posted
The ALA has posted the draft of their 2017 conference program. The panels organized by IDFWS will be held on Saturday, May 27th, back-to-back. A special thanks to Ryan Marnane for charing both of them! …