A selective bibliography of open access articles on Willa Cather, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Acocella, Joan. A review of Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism, College Literature, Spring 2001 reviewed by Swift, John N
Butterworth, Keen. A review of a scholarly edition of Oh Pioneers, "Review of Willa Cather," in Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, Vol. 9 (removed from http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/TEXT/vol9/cather.html)
Flannigan, John H. "Words and music made flesh in Cather's 'Eric Hermannson's Soul.'" Studies in Short Fiction, Spring, 1995
Frus, Phyllis; Corkin, Stanley. "Willa Cather's 'pioneer' novels and (not new, not old) historical reading," College Literature, Spring 1999
Holmes, Catherine D. "Jim Burden's Lost Worlds: Exile in My Antonia," Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1999
Kot, Paula. "Speculation, tourism, and The Professor's House," Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 2002
Lindemann, Marilee. A review of Willa Cather: Queering America, (Columbia Univ. Press, 1999). College Literature, Fall 2000, reviewed by Reynolds, Guy. "Cather has become one of the most contested twentieth-century novelists. Current debate lies in the intersection of ideology and feminism, with a specific focus on how 'progressive' a writer Cather was."
Lucenti, Lisa Marie. "Willa Cather's My Antonia: Haunting the Houses of Memory," Twentieth Century Literature, Summer, 2000
Petry, Alice Hall. A negative review of Willa Cather: Writing at the Frontier. Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1993
Prchal, Tim. "The Bohemian paradox: My Antonia and popular images of Czech immigrants," MELUS, Summer, 2004
Salas, Angela M. "Willa Cather's Sapphira and the Slave Girl: Extending the boundaries of the body," College Literature, Jun 1997
Saari, Rob. "'Paul's Case': A Narcissistic Personality Disorder, 301.81" Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1997
Skaggs, Merrill M. "Viola Roseboro': A prototype for Cather's My Mortal Enemy," Mississippi Quarterly, Winter 2000/2001 (removed from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3729/is_200001/ai_n8898031)
Zitter, Emmy Stark. "The unfinished picture: Willa Cather's 'The Marriage of Phaedra.'" Literary criticism on an early short story of Cather's, Short Fiction, Spring, 1993
A biography of Willa Cather from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
A Teacher's Guide to Willa Cather from textbook publisher Heath
A guide for Willa Cather from C-Span from their 2001 American Writers series
A biography of Willa Cather from the Public Media Foundation
A 1926 profile of Willa Cather by Malcolm Cowley (removed from http://icg.harvard.edu/~cather/cowley.html)
The Willa Cather Archive provides free access to articles in the journal Cather Studies, several substantial biographies, and more
Articles in the scholarly journal Cather Studies can be accessed through this link. Most of the articles from Vol. 1-5 (1990-2003) are currently online. The researcher will have to browse the volumes since there is no search function, but there is much material here which makes it worth it. For example, "Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination" is the topic for 17 articles in Volume 5
Web site for The Song of the Lark, contains a Willa Cather timeline, notes about the production, and a teaching guide, from the Public Broadcasting Service
A web site for "A Wagner Matinee." A Willa Cather short story, it was rewritten as a radio play. The web site presents the play, a biography, a discussion of themes, and a teaching guide. From Scribbling Women
The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation created an extensive web site on Cather, which includes a list of her works, one issue of their newsletter, and news of any Cather-related event or subject
A primary and secondary bibliography for Willa Cather, from professor Paul P. Reuben's American bibliography web site
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