Midwestern literature in historical and cultural context / Marcia Noe
What is "middlewestishness"? the evolution of Midwestern literary studies / Sara Kosiba
Complicated grief, mourning and melancholia : reading the novel of Godfrey St. Peter's compounded losses in Willa Cather's The professor's house / Sarah Warren-Riley
For those non-Midwestern, Midwestern writers : Richard Powers, Toni Morrison and the Midwest Topos / Patricia Oman
Patricia Hampl, Minnesota and The florist's daughter : memoir as history / Marilyn Atlas
Your homeland is where you live and where you work : changing Midwestern pastoral(ism) in Tomas Rivera's ... And the earth did not devour him / William Barillas
"A place to fear and love" : the imagined heartland of David Foster Wallace's The broom of the system, Jurrit Daalder
Performing Africa in the American Midwest : memories of Africa in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon / Maureen Eke
It's heaven : sports literature and Iowa's pastoral image / Scott D. Emmert
Big shoulders, cat feet : the Midwestern dimensions of Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems / Phillip A. Greasley
Humor me, I'm from the Midwest : Mike Perry and the trope of poking fun at ourselves / Christian Knoeller
"Figures in transmotion" : bison hunt narratives as Mise en Abyme in the native literatures of the American Midwest / Matthew Low
In the heart of the land : Midwestern plays and playwrights / David Radavich
"A discovered land" : Willa Cather's Pioneers John Rohrkemper
Chicago and Peter DeVries' Map of desire / Guy Szuberla.