Wanted: DFW Proceedings Reviewers

We're currently starting the DFW17 and DFW18 Proceedings!  All papers submitted for consideration will be evaluated through a peer-review process to ensure that they reflect the quality of the conference.  If you'd like to be a reviewer, please Read More.  Or open our Online Application in a new window.

DFW Conference Online Presentation Gallery

To provide a lasting record of the conference presentations, we're putting together an online gallery of past presentations.

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DFW17 Proceedings

Did you present at the 2017 David Foster Wallace Conference?  We're pleased to (finally!) invite submissions for the DFW17 Proceedings.  Any presentation given at DFW17 is eligible for consideration.  We'll use blind review to review the submissions - before uploading a copy of your presentation, please remove all identifying information.  Ensure that the title provided in the file matches the title you include on your submission form.

Please use our Submission Form to have your presentation considered.  Deadline is September 30, 2018.

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DFW17 Panel Schedule

The Fourth Annual David Foster Wallace Conference took place from June 8-10, 2017, at the campus of Illinois State University.  Highlights of the conference included:

Logo by Chris Ayers

• Our keynote by Jeffrey Severs, author of David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value.
• A live production of The Great Concavity Podcast by Matt Bucher and David Laird, featuring guests Charlie Harris and Jim Plath.
  
• Our first Diversity Roundtable, featuring Andrea Sheridan, Danielle Ely, and Ryan Lackey, moderated by Diego Báez.
• A rather nondescript game of Eschaton on a nearby basketball court.

		Eschaton: The brutally civilized game of thermonuclear war.

Complete Panel Abstracts and Schedule

Presenter Bios

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