Meredith Farmer | Media and Appearances

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Recent & Future Appearances:

Melville & Environment: A Workshop, Melville's Energies, Paris, June 27 & 28th
“Melville and the Model of Early Organic Chemistry,” Arizona Quarterly Symposium, Tucson, Postponed due to COVID
“Reading Weather in the Nineteenth Century" CEES Colloquium, Winston-Salem, Postponed due to COVID

News & Media:

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The Hidden Town Project

Interview: C19 Podcast

Wives and Their Authors:

Elizabeth & Herman Melville, Literary Labor, & Women's Work

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David Foster Wallace was wearing his trademark bandanna and a white shirt with a Nehru collar when Christopher Bench '05 and Meredith Farmer '05 met him. Spread in front of him were the pages of the Commencement address he was about to give, occupying most of the table in the Sunset Cottage seminar room. They were covered in ink; he was still revising-cutting, mostly. Also scattered around the room were cups of spit, from the tobacco he'd been chewing. When Farmer told him she'd been the one who nominated him to speak at their graduation, he said, "F*** you, I'm not old enough for this. I'm not my father!" and laughed.

Also discussed in "David Foster Wallace’s Famous Commencement Speech Almost Didn’t Happen" (Huffington Post, May 2016).

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