Advancing the study of the Greater Southwest

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.

What's New

Southwestern American Literature

The Fall 2009 issue of Southwestern American Literature celebrates the 35th year of the journal with an all-new design. The color, size, and shape of the journal remain the same, but readers will find a new interior layout that we hope will provide for a better reading experience. Let us know what you think at our new email address (swpublications@txstate.edu). This new issue includes articles by Roger Walton Jones on Larry McMurtry and James Fennimore Cooper, and Ken Hada on the poetry of Larry D. Thomas and Walt McDonald. Our poetry section presents yet another group of outstanding and award-winning poets: karla k. morton, John Sibley Williams, Carol Hamilton, Mark Smith, Larry D. Thomas, William Virgil Davis, Susan DeFreitas, John Grey, and William Stobb. Steven L. Davis takes a look at Oscar Casares' new novel in a review essay. And, as usual, we also offer a variety of book reviews: new works by Cheryll Glotfelty, Marcia Hatfield Daudistel, Ray Gonzalez, Tracy Daughert (on Donald Barthelme), Elmer Kelton, Larry McMurtry, Gerald Vizenor, Lowell Mick White, Erin Pringle, Scott Blackwood, M. Glenn Taylor, Jerry Bradley, James Hoggard, and much more.

Texas Books in Review

* Note: The next issue of Texas Books in Review, due out in late winter, will be the Fall/Winter 2009-2010 double issue (Vol. XXIX, Nos. 3 & 4).

The 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.

Limited Fine Printing Available: Sensing Dobie's Shade

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.