A specialist in material culture, she is currently researching the creation of spontaneous shrines at sites of disaster and catastrophe.Lou Halsell Rodenberger, professor emeritus of English at McMurry University, has written essays and articles on Texas and southwestern women writers. Her most recent book is" Texas Women Writers: ""A"" Tradition of Their Own, " co-edited with Sylvia Grider, and published by Texas A&M University Press. Other works include "Her Work: Stories by Texas Women" and" Jane Gilmore Rushing, " a monograph-length study in the Western Writers Series.