Scholarly

Mormon Studies Resource Guide

Private Collections and Repositories of Mormon Literature

• LDS Church archives (access with special permission)
• LDS Family History Library (public access)
• Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library L. Tom Perry Special Collections (restricted access)
• Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California (restricted access)
• William R. Clark Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, California (restricted access)

Conferences, Meetings, and Symposia in which Mormon Literature is regularly discussed:

• The Association for Mormon Letters Annual Meeting (late winter of each year, various Wasatch Front locales)
• The Association for Mormon Letters Writers Conference (late fall of each year, various Wasatch Front locales)
• Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Conference (fall of each year, various Rocky Mountain locales)
• Colloquium on Literature and Belief (occasionally, at Brigham Young University)
• Sunstone Symposium (August of each year, Salt Lake City, Utah)
• Sunstone Symposium West (held in alternate years annually with Sunstone Symposium East--various locales)
• Sunstone Symposium East (held in alternate years annually with Sunstone Symposium West--various locales)
• Life, the Universe, and Everything--The BYU Science Fiction Symposium (held late winter, early spring each year, Wilkinson Center, BYU)
• The Nauvoo Workshop for LDS Writers (online forum)

Courses Offered in Mormon Literature

"Literary study of journals, letters, sermons, short stories, novels, poetry, and drama arising out of the Mormon experience from Joseph Smith to the present. "

This course is frequently taught by Gideon Burton, Eric Eliason, John Bennion, and Douglas Thayer.