January 29, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Researcher traces the compositional structures of David Foster Wallace’s Fiction David Hering, a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, visited the Ransom Center during the summer of 2013 to research his forthcoming book on David Foster Wallace. His research was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment.