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Besides this resource, we launched a new website in 2018: “Western American Literature Research.” This site aggregates articles that were published in Western American Literature and arranges them by topic. We currently have them arranged by author, and feature the main authors published about in the journal over the past 53 years. In the coming months we will be adding new authors as well as a variety of thematic subjects. You will need to have access to Project Muse, usually thru your university or community library, in order to access the articles.
Yes, we did copy the author bio blurbs from Wikipedia. But in doing so we added a link to our site on each of the author’s Wikipedia pages, which we hope will help drive traffic to our pages and also make our site content more highly ranked in searches.
If you are interested in using any essays printed in Western American Literature in a course pack for your class or in reprinting an essay for any reason, please go to
nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu/permissions.
We have compiled all the tables of contents for Western American Literature, from its beginning in 1966 until the present. This compilation allows you to search all our old issues. Due to the length of the document (it includes every book review ever published in WAL!), we had to cut it into several pieces. Sorry for the inconvenience. Nonetheless, we hope you’ll find this a helpful research tool! And please let us know if you come upon spelling errors.