American Literature Association Conference Panels
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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. …
Wallace and Religious Literature by Nan Denette
Religion and Literature by Nan Denette My first reading of Infinite Jest as a teenager was largely why I decided to study literature in college and why I declared a …
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 …
Wallace and Affect Theory: Emotional Pain, Empathy, and “The Depressed Person” by Ryan Kerr
Affect theory attempts to make sense of our emotions and their implications. Specifically, affect theory is aimed at understanding feelings that are “relational and transformative” (Flatley 12). We often feel …
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 …