Research Projects:

The U.S. Hispanic Bibliographic Database Project - A project to compile and make accessible all available information on U.S. Hispanic authors and literary documents. Discrete bibliographies will be issued in print. The complete databank will be published on CD-ROM. Encyclopedic and biographical editions will also be published.

The U.S. Hispanic Periodical Literature Project - A project to recover the poetry, fiction, literary prose, literary notices and book reviews found in the 1,200+ periodicals published by Hispanics in the U.S. from 1808 to 1960. Electronic editions of the bibliography, full description indexes and digitized images of more than 80,000 literary items will be issued on CD-ROM. The bibliography will also be available in print.

The U.S. Hispanic Archives and Preservation Consortium - A project to survey archival holdings nationally and create and/or stabalize existing U.S. Hispanic archives. The consortium coordinates the accession, acquisition, preservation and access of recovered materials.

Syllabus of Suggested Readings for a Survey Course on Mexican-American Literature - The course is designed to follow the historical development of Hispanic literature in the Southwest using complete works currently available for college and university classrooms. The periodization is based on Luis Leal's oft-cited "Mexican American Literature: A Historical Perspective" (in Sommers and Ybarra-Frausto, Modern Chicano Writers).