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

Texas Books in Review

The Fall/Winter 2008-09 double issue of Texas Books in Review is now available, featuring reviews of new books by Gary Hartman, Rick Bass, James Donovan, Adam Jones, and Jeff Pearlman, as well as an interview with Eric Miles Williamson and a rememberance of James Crumley by Dick Holland. The issue also contains an array of reviews of books on the Guadalupe River, flash floods, all-brothers baseball teams, UT Longhorn football, the Dallas Cowboys, Custer and the Little Bighorn, Lady Bird Johnson's White House diary, language, poetry, and fiction.

Southwestern American Literature

The Fall 2008 issue of Southwestern American Literature features the much-anticipated special section on the Atomic Southwest. The section includes works on Simon J. Ortiz, Martin Cruz Smith, Ed Abbey, iconography, and literature of resistance to atomic testing and nuclear waste. The section is guest-edited by Linda Lizut Helstern and presents essays by Kyoko Matsunaga, Sara Spurgeon, Alex Hunt, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Audrey Goodman. The issue also contains fiction by Lowell Mick White and David LeMaster and poetry by M. Miriam Herrera, Larry D. Thomas, Jeffrey C. Alfier, and Jack Vian. As usual, we also offer a variety of book reviews: new works by Jack Loeffler, Neil Campbell, Leonard Engel, Thomas Cobb, Dagoberto Gilb, and much more.

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.

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