Brazos Hall
Texas State University
601 University Dr.
San Marcos, TX 78666
tel: (512) 245-2224
fax: (512) 245-7462
The Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University-San Marcos engages faculty and students in the richness and diversity of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico and gives focus to intercultural studies through examining the region's people, institutions, history, and physical and cultural ecology. We are a partner of the Southwest Regional Humanities Center.
Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association: click here
Texas
Books in ReviewThe Summer 2009 issue of Texas Books in Review features reviews of new books by M. Glenn Taylor, Scott Blackwood, Elmer Kelton, Larry McMurtry, Erin Pringle, James Hoggard, Sherry Clements, and Paulette Jiles. The issue also contains an array of reviews of books on Texas water, Texas chefs, Texas Rangers, Roger Clemens' fall from stardom, and a generous portion dedicated to new poetry and fiction.
The Spring
2009 issue of Southwestern
American Literature features the much-anticipated special section
of Southwestern poetry. The section, guest edited by Keith Ekiss, includes
works by Alison Hawthorn Deming, Leslie Ullman, Josh Rathkamp, Sherwin
Bitsui, Sara Marie Ortiz, C. E. Perry, Scott Wiggerman, Jennifer Elise
Foerster, Simmons B. Buntin, Carrie Fountain, Abraham Burickson, Kenneth
Fields, and Jonathan Hunt. The issue also contains articles by Sara L.
Spurgeon on generating theory in the Borderlands; Robert W. Haynes
on Horton Foote; and Don Graham on Annie Proulx and Larry McMurtry; as
well as new fiction by John Blanchard.
As usual, we also offer a variety of book reviews: new works
by Charles Bowden and Julián Cardona, Harold Fromm, Rigoberto González,
Carmen Tafolla, Ofelia Zepeda, and Jimmy Santiago Baca, and much more.
We welcome responses to reviews published in Texas Books in Review. For information and to read responses, click here.
The
Southwest Regional Humanities Center is pleased to offer Sensing
Dobie's Shade: The Al Lowman Collection of J. Frank Dobie Publications
in the Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University-San Marcos,
published in a limited edition of 100 copies by David Holman at Wind River
Press in
Austin. Copies are available for purchase through the Center.
For information on ordering, please click
here.