Research on Munro's work has been undertaken since the early 1970s, with the first PhD thesis published in 1972. The first book-length volume collecting the papers presented at the University of Waterloo first conference on her oeuvre was published in 1984, "The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable". In 2003/2004, the journal "Open Letter. Canadian quarterly review of writing and sources" published 14 contributions on Munro's work, in Autumn 2010 the "Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE)/Les cahiers de la nouvelle" dedicated a special issue to Munro, and in May 2012 an issue of the journal "Narrative" focussed on a single story by Munro, "Passion" (2004), with an introduction, a summary of the story, and five essays of analysis.