Congratulations to Diego Báez!
The International David Foster Wallace Society would like to send out a big congratulations to Board Member and Co-Coordinator of the Diversity Team Diego Báez on being selected as a 2020 Emerging Critic by the National Book Critics Circle. To see the announcement from the NBCC, navigate to https://membership.bookcritics.org/emerging-critics/ Here is the announcement on the NBCC […]
ALA Panels: Dates & Times
As we announced on January 31, we have our panels set for this year’s American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May 23-26, 2019. Come join us and other great societies and scholars, get a peek at The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies, and maybe even walk away with some DFW Society swag. We now have our dates and times! They are tentative […]
DFW in Translation
Considering that we are the International David Foster Wallace Society, we wanted to take the time and put forth the effort to identify the numerous translations of David Foster Wallace’s texts. These are our preliminary findings. We plan to conduct bi-annual updates to this list; however, in the meantime, if you are aware of other translations, please share them […]
American Literature Association Conference Panels
We have our panels set for this year’s American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May 23-26, 2019. Come join us and other great societies and scholars, get a sneak peek at The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies, and maybe even walk away with some DFW Society swag. This year, we were deluged with a record number of really stellar proposals for our […]
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 first board meeting of the year saw some changes to our slate of officers and to the board. You’ll see those updates on our website, but we’d […]
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 first volume of The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies has begun circulation. You may have already received your copy, or it may be on its way. […]
Watching to Death by Tom Winchester
Watching to Death by Tom Winchester The Entertainmentisarguably what drives forward, or at least ties together, most of the narrative in in David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel, Infinite Jest. Everyone seems to be looking for it or has something to do with its creation, and the reader is only offered hints regarding what it contains. The author’s archive at […]
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 major in English after just one semester. A year later, however, I added a seemingly unrelated double major in religious studies. Entering into this field, I learned that […]
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 in blue pens! Either way, we are so glad that you found your way to our webpage. There are many ways that you can get involved in the DFW […]
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 related to any aspect of Wallace’s fiction or nonfiction. Paper topics may include but are not limited to: Please send abstracts of no more than 300 […]