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.