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In The News

"A Sense of Place" - Austin Chronicle, December 14, 2001
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-12-14/books_feature.html

"Collecting a Culture" - San Antonio Express-News, July 14, 2002
http://www.mrp.txstate.edu/mrp/relations/news/news22_san.html

Press Releases

Busby Named to Supple Professorship at Texas State, June 12, 2008
http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2008/06/suppleprof061208.html

Hart Named to Jones Professorship at Texas State, June 12, 2008
http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2008/06/jonesprof061208.html

NEH Announces $21.6 Million In New Grants, December 3, 2001
http://swrhc.txstate.edu/about/press/03-12-2001.php

NEH Receives $2.5 Million Gift From John S. And James L. Knight Foundation, March 21, 2001
http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20010321.html

NEH Launches Initiative To Rediscover America Through Regional Studies, February 12, 1999
http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/19991202b.html

NEH Launches Initiative To Develop 10 Regional Humanities Centers, May 10, 1999
http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/19990510.html



Now Available
Sensing Dobie's Shade: The Al Lowman Collection of J. Frank Dobie Publications in the Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University-San Marcos has been published in a limited edition of 100 copies.

 

Texas Literary Outlaws:
Six Writers in the Sixties & Beyond
 
 

At the height of the Sixties, a group of rowdy Texas writers came together, raising hell and creating memorable literature as they found their voices in opposition to Texas' conservative traditions. Making use of untapped literary archives, Southwestern Writers Collection assistant curator Steven L. Davis weaves a fascinating portrait of these "literary outlaws" who came of age during a period of rapid social change.

 
  Photo © Laurence Parent, from Texas Mountains  published by University of Texas Press