Over the years we have published a number of special issues on a wide range of topics. These generally include 3 to 6 essays focused on a particular subject.
Emerging Scholars: Personal and Pedagogical Perspectives (2022)
California, CLI-FI, and Climate Crisis (2021)
The Politics of Public Lands in the Contemporary US West (2019)
50th Anniversary of the Western Literature Association (2018)
Nature and Culture in (and outside) the Academe (2017)
Settler Colonial Studies (2017)
Petrocultures in the US and Canadian Wests (2017)
Indigenous Wests: Literary and Visual Aesthetics (2014)
Working Class Literature of the American West (2006)
Western Autobiography and Memoir (2002)
Recovering a Mexican American West (2000)
A Sampler from A Literary History of the American West (1985)
Western American Literature Research 