A number of masters' theses have been written on Butala's work, but perhaps of most interest now is Verna Reid's new book, Women Between, published by the University of Calgary Press and out in the fall of 2008, in which she examines the work of four contemporary women artists. It was originally her doctoral thesis.
Also, see Celebrating Saskatchewan Artists edited by S.R. Smith, Saskatchewan Arts Alliance, 2006.
"History and Nature: Representations of the Great Plains in the Work of Sharon Butala and Wallace Stegner," by Walter Isle,
Great Plains Quarterly,Vol. 19 / Number 2 / Spring 1999.
Watch for Prairie Fire, October 2011 issue, essays by ten or so authors, edited by Geoff Hancock and focusing on Sharon's work
See papers by Dallas Harrison, "W(h)ither the Grasslands? Arcadians and Utopians in the Recent Novels of Sharon Butala," in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Spring, 2009, and by Pamela Banting."Deconstructing the Politics of Location: The Problem of Setting in Prairie Fiction and Non-Fiction," in West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature, Ed. Sue Sorensen, CMU Press, Winnipeg, Mb., 2008.
