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

Call for Papers: Southwestern Literature

Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association: click here

Texas Books in Review

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.

Southwestern American Literature

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.

NEW: Readers Respond...

We welcome responses to reviews published in Texas Books in Review. For information and to read responses, click here.

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.