It really is a golden time for Wallace scholarship! I've still got some more reports, photos, and presentations to post about last weekend's Infinite Wallace 2014 Conference in Paris to come over the next week or so, but until then... how about a call for papers and presentation of original work for The Second Annual David Foster Wallace Conference? Once again being held at Illinois State University, May 28th and 29th, 2015.
The Keynote speaker is Dr. Stephen J. Burn (David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, Second Edition: A Reader's Guide, Conversations with David Foster Wallace)
For the last four years, Burn has been working with the David Foster Wallace literary estate to produce an edited volume of Wallace’s letters. This volume is not intended to be a biography in letters, but rather a biography of Wallace’s writing: charting his reflections on his own writing; documenting his reading; mapping his changing intellectual investments; and sharing some of the virtuoso linguistic performances he saved for his letters. In this keynote, Burn will discuss the scope of Wallace’s letters, asking how the letters enhance or complicate our understanding of Wallace’s work, and how they help us understand Wallace’s place amongst contemporary American writers.
DFW 2015 ISU Website
DFW 2015 Facebook page
Call for Papers and Presentations of Original Work direct .pdf link
