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During the 2003-04 academic year, members of the Lawrence University faculty contributed many fine examples of scholarship, writing, artistic work, and musical performance to the literature of their respective disciplines, to the wider academic world, and to audiences near and far. Space does not permit listing their contributions to the on-campus Lawrence community, but many of their significant off-campus activities are reported here.


Matthew Ansfield, assistant professor of psychology, was selected by students to receive two teaching awards. He was honored as “Professor of the Month” by the Lambda Sigma honorary society and also received the Mrs. H. K. Babcock Award, voted on by students to honor “a member of the faculty, staff, administration, trustees, alumni, or a friend of the college who, through involvement and interaction with students, has made a positive impact on the campus community.”

Janet Anthony, professor of music

Faith Barrett, assistant professor of English

Alexis Boylan, assistant professor of art history

Professor of Geology Marcia Bjørnerud had two articles accepted for publication. “Inhibited eclogite formation: The key to strong and buoyant Archean crust” will appear in Geology, and “Positive feedback processes in the generation of pseudotachylytes” will be published in the Journal of Structural Geology.

Peter Blitstein, assistant professor of history, delivered a paper at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies titled “Speaking Bolshevik on The National Question: Discourses of Colonialism in Comparative Perspective.”

John Brandenberger, the Alice G. Chapman Professor of Physics, presented an invited talk on “Atomic Spectroscopy with Laser Diodes and Undergraduates” at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Montreal.

Jeffrey Clark, associate professor of geology, and Marcia Bjørnerud, professor of geology, presented a poster session on “Renovating the Curriculum from the Ground Up” at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting.

Paul Cohen, professor of history and the Patricia Hamar Boldt Professor of Liberal Studies, had his essay “Real Men Don’t Do Workshops” published in the November 21, 2003 Chronicle Review. His book review of The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City appeared in the American Historical Review.

David Cook, professor of physics and the Philetus E. Sawyer Professor of Science, presented an invited paper titled “Computation in Undergraduate Physics: The Lawrence Approach” at the Montreal joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the Canadian Association of Physicists.

Associate Professor of Music John Daniel performed as principal trumpet for the Pine Mountain Music Festival, as repiano cornet with the Brass Band of Battle Creek, and as a substitute in the trumpet sections for the Schubert Theatre production of Gypsy and with the Lew Anderson All-American Big Band at Birdland, both in New York City. He presented recitals and master classes at the University of Texas-Austin, Rice University, and Baylor University and served as an adjudicator for the final round of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerto Competition.

Bart De Stasio, ’82, associate professor of biology, received grants from the Wisconsin Sea Grant Program and the American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Research Grants Program to support his research on the impact of zebra mussels in Green Bay and Lake Winnebago. He authored “Diapause in Calanoid Copepods: Within-cluth Hatching Patterns,” which will appear in the Journal of Limnology, and co-authored “Midsummer decline of a Daphnia population attributed in part to cyanobacterial capsule production,” which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Plankton Research.

Assistant Professor of Art Joseph D’Uva had his work exhibited at the “Children of the Corn” exhibition at the Mid-American Printmaking Council Conference in October. His work was also published and exhibited at Centro de Formacion, Produccion e Investigacion Grafica Museograbado in Zacatecas, Mexico.

Fan Lei, associate professor of music, presented a series of clarinet master classes in Taiwan. He also performed as guest artist with the Agassiz Chamber Players at the University of Winnipeg, presented a solo recital with clarinetist Bob Spring at the Lanzhou City Concert Hall in China, served as a visiting professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and continued as artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre of the Arts in Canada.

Associate Professor of Spanish Gustavo Fares was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Program Fellowship from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars and was a visiting lecturer at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, during the fall. He presented “Hispanic Identities in the United States” at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago last November. His article “Borges’ Women in Film. Bridging Continents: Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American Themes” has been accepted for publication in Chasqui, and “Painting in the Expanded Field” appeared in Janus Head this fall.

Merton Finkler, professor of economics, presented a talk titled “Healthcare Cost Differences in the 1990s: The Influence of Metropolitan Area Marketplace Dynamics” at the annual meeting of the International Society for Research in Healthcare Financial Management. His paper with the same title will appear in the publication Research in Healthcare Financial Management.

Mark Frazier, assistant professor of government, received a Fulbright grant to support his research on pension reform in China during the 2004-05 academic year. His article, “China’s Pension Reform and Its Discontents,” was published in the January 2004 issue of The China Journal, and he contributed the chapter “Quiet Competition and the Future of Sino Indian Relations” to The India-China Relationship, edited by Harry Harding and Francine Frankel. His article “After Pension Reform: Navigating the ‘Third Rail’ in China” has been accepted for publication in Studies in Comparative International Development, and “What’s in a Law? China’s Pension Reform and Its Discontents” will be included in Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice, edited by Neil J. Diamant, Stanley B. Lubman, and Kevin J. O’Brien.

Peter Gilbert, associate professor in the Seeley G. Mudd Library, presented a poster session on “Accessibility at the Lawrence Library” for the Midwest Instructional Technology Center (MITC) conference titled Making IT Work: Collaboration for Universal Access at Liberal Arts Colleges, held at Wabash College. He also was part of a panel on “Accessibility and the Web” at another MITC conference titled Instructional Technologists at Liberal Colleges: Critically Evaluating Technologies for a Liberal Arts Context, held at Macalester College.

Professor of Psychology Peter Glick was elected a Fellow of three professional organizations in 2004, the American Psychological Society, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and was awarded a grant by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues for a study of attitudes toward the United States in 12 nations. He co-authored an article titled “Bad but bold: Ambivalent attitudes toward men predict gender inequality in 16 nations” that appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His publications during the past year included two other co-authored articles: “Ambivalent sexism and attitudes toward women who engage in premarital sex in Turkey” in Journal of Sex Research and “Sexismo, masculinidad-feminidad y factores culturales (Sexism, masculinity-femininity, and cultural factors)” in Revista Española de Motivaciòn y Emociòn. In addition, he was part of a panel presentation titled Hostility Toward Men and Benevolence Toward Women Predict Gender Inequality: A 16 Nation Study during the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference.

Bertrand Goldgar, professor of English and the John N. Bergstrom Professor of Humanities

Assistant Professor of History Natasha Gray presented a paper on “Male Defendants in Witchcraft Trials: Findings from the Akyem Abuakwa Native Tribunal” at the African Studies Association annual meeting in Boston.

Christian Grose, assistant professor of government, received the Carl Albert Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in legislative studies last year. His article “Disentangling Constituency and Legislator Effects in Legislative Representation” will appear in Social Science Quarterly, and “Is It Better to Join the Majority? The Electoral Effects of Party Switching by Southern State Legislators” has been accepted for publication in American Review of Politics. With Vibhuti “Ashe” Hate, ’03, he co-authored “Midterm Elections,” which will appear in the Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, edited by Robert Dewhirst. He was invited to give a talk on “Electoral Institutions, Voter Participation, and Felon Disfranchisement” at the Texas A&M George H. W. Bush School of Public Policy last October.

Associate Professor of Psychology Beth Haines and co-author Joy Jordan, assistant professor of statistics, had their article “Quantitative literacy in higher education: Setting goals and assessing progress” published in Peer Review. Another joint effort, “Lawrence University: Quantitative Reasoning Across the Curriculum,” has been accepted for publication in Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy. They also gave an invited presentation on "Quantitative reasoning at Lawrence University: Creation, implementation, and possible assessment," at the Workshop on Quantitative Literacy: Quantitative Reasoning Initiatives at Macalester College.

David Hall, assistant professor of chemistry

Bruce Hetzler, professor of psychology

Assistant Professor of Economics John Higgins presented a paper on “Using Same-sex Partners to Measure the Gender Wage Gap” at the Society of Labor Economists’ annual convention in Toronto.

Karen Hoffmann, ’87, assistant professor of English, had her article “‘Am I no better than a eunuch?’: Narrating Masculinity and Empire in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier” accepted for publication in the Journal of Modern Literature.

Eilene Hoft-March, professor of French, presented “Paradigms of Omission: Clément’s Cherche-Midi” at the Modern Language Association meeting in San Diego. Her article, “Child Survivors and Narratives of Hope: Georges Perec’s W ou le souvenir d’enfance” appeared in The Child in French Literature, edited by Buford Norman. Her reviews of Soazig Aaron’s Le Non de Klara, Shan Sa’s Joueuse de Go, and Nicole Avril’s Moi, Dora appeared in The French Review.

Assistant Professor of English Catherine Hollis presented two papers at James Joyce conferences this year. She delivered “‘Little Women’ and the Publication of Ulysses” at the Miami Joyce Conference: Traditions and Innovations and “The Ladies’ Own Ulysses” at the International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin.

Eugénie Hunsicker, assistant professor of mathematics, gave an invited talk on “Hodge Cohomology of Gravitational Instantons” at the Workshop on Analysis and Resolution of Singularities at the University of Quebec in Montreal. She and colleague Karen Nordell, assistant professor of chemistry, were presented with the Rotary Cutting Edge Award for their efforts to introduce middle-school girls from Appleton to the fields of science and mathematics.

Assistant Professor of Statistics Joy Jordan organized and participated in a panel on “Innovative Ideas for the Statistics Classroom” at the Joint Statistical Meetings in August in Toronto. Her article “The Use of Orally Recorded Exam Feedback as a Supplement to Written Comments” was published in the Journal of Statistics Education. As noted above, she also collaborated with Beth Haines, associate professor of psychology, on publications and presentations on quantitative literacy.

Jerzy Jura, assistant professor of Spanish, presented “Rules of Engagement: the Poetics of Spain’s New Social Cinema” at the 2004 Cincinnati Romance Languages Conference.

Associate Professor of Music Michael Kim appeared as piano concerto soloist with the Milwaukee Festival City Symphony at the Pabst Theatre and with the Sudbury and Saskatoon Symphonies in Canada. He also performed recitals for the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton, the Coast Recital Society in Vancouver, and the Thornhill “Fabulous Fridays” series in Toronto and for WFMT radio in Chicago. His solo transcription of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was released by Arktos Recordings.

Andrew Knudsen, assistant professor of geology, co-authored a paper titled “The effects of weathering on the mineralogy of the Phosphoria Formation, southeastern Idaho, U.S.A.” that was published in Life Cycle of the Phosphoria Formation: From deposition to the post-mining environment, edited by J. R. Hein.

Bonnie Koestner, ’72, assistant professor of music, continued her work as chorus master, pianist, and coach with Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York. She also served as rehearsal pianist for the Palm Beach Opera’s production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.

Associate Professor of German Ruth Lanouette presented “Inferences in Courtroom Conversation” at the annual conference of the Law and Society Association in Chicago.

Carol Lawton, professor of art history, received the 2004 Lawrence University Excellence in Teaching Award. She presented “Children in Classical Athenian Votive Reliefs” at the Conference on Constructions of Childhood in the Ancient World at Dartmouth College. Her paper “Athenian Anti-Macedonian Sentiment and Democratic Ideology in Attic Document Reliefs of the Fourth Century B.C.” appeared in The Macedonians at Athens, 322-229 B.C.: Proceedings of an International Conference Held at the University of Athens, 2001. Her review of C. M. Keesling’s The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis was published in CAA Reviews.

Professor of Biology Nicholas Maravolo co-authored “The Influence of Spermine on the In Situ Expression of a Protein Kinase Associated with Senescence in Marchantia polymorpha Thalli,” which will be published in the International Journal of Plant Sciences.

Randall McNeill, assistant professor of classics, served as a visiting scholar in the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago during the fall semester of 2003. He delivered his paper “Silence and Friendship in Catullus” at the Freie Universitat Berlin and the University of Chicago. His article “Notes on the Subject of the Ilissos Temple Frieze” has been accepted for publication in New Perspectives on Periklean Athens.

Julie McQuinn, assistant professor of music, contributed a chapter to The Cambridge Companion to Debussy entitled “Exploring the Erotic in Debussy’s Music.” She also presented a paper on “The Medieval Leper Plagues Modern Paris: Sylvio Lazzari’s La Lépreuse” at the American Musicological Society annual meeting.

Associate Professor of Psychology Gerald Metalsky had his article “A test of the tripartite model’s prediction of anhedonia’s specificity to depression: Patients with major depression versus patients with schizophrenia” published in Psychiatry Research.

Composer Joanne Metcalf, assistant professor of music, received an ASCAP Plus Award in recognition of her catalog of “musical works that possess a special prestige value.” Her new work, Le metamorfosi, commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble, received its premiere this past summer at the Cheltenham Festival and was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Performances of her works in Bulgaria and Slovenia brought the total number of countries in which her music has been performed to 24. A recording of her work, Il nome del bel fior, performed by the Hilliard Ensemble, has been released on the German label Oehms Classics.

Soprano Patrice Michaels, associate professor of music, had two new CDs released this year. La vie est une parade was issued on the Cedille label, and Albany Records presented the Music of Edward Joseph Collins. She was heard in recital on WFMT 98.7 “Live from Studio One.”

Violist Matthew Michelic, associate professor of music, continued his work as viola instructor and chamber music coach at the Credo Chamber Music program in Oberlin, Ohio, and served as faculty clinician for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. He performed a solo recital and viola master class at the University of Georgia and continued in his role as principal violist of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra throughout the season.

Rex Myers, lecturer in history, had his paper, “Before the Corps: Don Alonso DeCalves’ 1786-1787 ‘Exploration’ of the West,” published in The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Then and Now. He has contributed two chapters, “Exploration and Fur Trade” and “Transportation and Tourism” to A New South Dakota History. In addition, his review of John Lauritz Larson’s Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America’s Railway Age was published in Journal of the West.

Two-Headed Trojan Ducky, a sculpture by Assistant Professor of Art Rob Neilson, was selected for Navy Pier Walk 2004 at Chicago’s Navy Pier. His work was also exhibited at the Carolina Centennial Anniversary Exhibition in Chapel Hill, the New Orleans Canal Street Projection Project, and the 2003 Violent Violence in Amsterdam. He has been awarded public art commissions by the Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority and the City of Los Angeles.

Karen Nordell, assistant professor of chemistry, received the 2004 Lawrence University Outstanding Young Teacher Award. She and colleague Eugénie Hunsicker, assistant professor of mathematics, were honored by the Appleton Rotary Club with its Cutting Edge Award for the PRYSM (Partners Reaching Youth in Science and Math) and GEMS (Girls Encounter Math and Science) programs they created to introduce girls from the Appleton school district to science and math. She is co-author of two manuscripts: “Hydrothermal synthesis of two new lead-containing coordination polymers: 2∞[PbCl2(4,4’-bipy)] and 2∞[Pb2(NO3)4(H2O)2(4,4’-bipy)2](4,4’-bipy)2,” which will appear in Polyhedron and “Trans-Diaquatetrakis (4,4’-methylenediphenylamine-N)-cobalt(II) dinitrare dihydrate,” which was published by Acta Cryst.

Pianist Dmitri Novgorodsky, assistant professor of music, performed solo recitals and presented master classes in Israel and Germany.

Pianist Anthony Padilla, associate professor of music, performed a series of recitals with violinist Janet Packer throughout Illinois and Wisconsin. He also presented a solo recital and master class at the University of Iowa School of Music and continued his work teaching and performing at the Bay View Summer Music Festival.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Peter Peregrine has been invited to be a participant in the Santa Fe Institute Working Group on Language and Prehistory funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He served as co-author for three journal articles: “Universal Patterns in Cultural Evolution: An Empirical Analysis Using Guttman Scaling” appeared in American Anthropologist, “Predicting the Future State of the World Using Archaeological Data: An Exercise in Archaeomancy” was published in Cross-Cultural Research, and “A Continental Perspective for North American Archaeology” appeared in Cross-Cultural Research. In addition, his article “Cross-Cultural Approaches in Archaeology: Comparative Ethnology, Comparative Archaeology, and Archaeoethnology” was published in Journal of Archaeological Research. He also served as co-author for Anthropology, 11th Edition, published by Prentice Hall.

Brent Peterson, associate professor of German, received a Recognition of Merit Award from the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers. He presented a lecture at a symposium at Washington University in St. Louis on 19th-century German-American literary relations, titled “Strange Bedfellows: High-, Low-, and Middlebrow Culture in the New Yorker Kriminal-Zeitung and Belletristisches Journal.” He reviewed Colin G. Calloway, Gerd Bemünden, and Susanne Zantop, editors, Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections for the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Max Kade Foundation Newsletter and Travellers in Time and Space/Reisende durch Zeit and Raum: The German Historical Novel/Der deutschsprachige historische Roman, edited by Osman Durrani and Julian Preece, for the Modern Language Review.

The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis, by Associate Professor of History Jerald Podair, received honorable mention for the Urban History Association’s 2003 award for Best Book in North American Urban History and was a finalist for the 2003 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, sponsored by the Organization of American Historians, for the best book on any aspect of the struggle for civil rights in the United States. His review of James Goodman’s Blackout, titled “Lights Out,” was published in Reviews in American History, and his review of Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto by Wendell Pritchett appeared in American Studies.

Bruce Pourciau, professor of mathematics

Katherine Privatt, assistant professor of theatre arts, presented “Aligning the Stars: Connecting the Theatre History Classroom with Production Work” at the pedagogy symposium of the MidAmerica Theatre Conference and “Playing in the Trading Zones: Theatre and the Sciences” for the Theatre as a Liberal Art focus group at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference. Her article “The New Theatre of Chicago: Democracy 1; Aristocracy 0” will appear in Theatre History Studies.

Terry Rew-Gottfried, professor of psychology, co-authored an article, “Musical experience and Mandarin tone discrimination and imitation,” published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. With Beth Haines, associate professor of psychology, and Martha Hemwall, ’73, dean of student academic services and adjunct associate professor of anthropology, he presented “An interdisciplinary practicum-based approach to introductory gender studies” at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference. He received a Norwegian Marshall Fund Research Grant to conduct research on Norwegian and American speech perception and production at Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet in Trondheim, Norway.

Susan Richards, university librarian and associate professor, published “Virtual Meetings: Developing a New Model for Conference Committees” in College and Undergraduate Libraries. She presented “Collaborating With Other Libraries in Your Community” at the American Library Association Annual Conference and was the keynote speaker for the Vermont Labor History Society, presenting “No Statues on Main Street: Working Women in Barre, 1880-1920.”

Associate Professor of Music Dane Richeson continues as a guest artist with the chamber music group, Bach, Dancing, and Dynamite Society. He performed with singer Jackie Allen at the Chicago Theatre and is a guest artist on her CD, The Men in My Life, released in 2003 by A440 Records and nominated for “Best of Chicago.”

Monica Rico, assistant professor of history, presented “Remembering British Settlement in Martin County, Minnesota, 1870-1920” at the Missouri Valley History Conference in Omaha, Nebraska.

Judith Sarnecki, professor of French, edited, introduced, and contributed to Subversive Subjects: Reading Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press. Her book review on Francoise Chandernagor’s La Chambre appeared in The French Review, and she presented a paper, “From Sonatina to Primal Scream: Jeanne Moreau’s embodiment of female desire in Duras’s Moderato Cantabile,” at the Midwest Modern Language Association meeting.

Claudena Skran, associate professor of government

Timothy Spurgin, associate professor of English and the Bonnie Glidden Buchanan Professor of English Literature, presented his paper “Vengeance in your heart, fish down your pants, or, Theory made me do it!: Desire, despair, and deconstruction in recent American fiction” at the Midwest Modern Language Association meeting.

Matthew Stoneking, associate professor of physics, co-authored with Lawrence students Mark A. Growdon, ’03, Michelle L. Milne, ’04, and Ryan T. Peterson, ’03, “Poloidal ExB drift used as an effective rotational transform to achieve long confinement times in a toroidal electron plasma,” which appeared in Physical Review Letters, and “Millisecond Confinement and Observation of the m=1 Diocotron Mode in a Toroidal Electron Plasma,” published in Non-neutral Plasma Physics V. He also served as co-author of “Large area avalanche photodiode detector array upgrade for a ruby-laser Thomson scattering system” for Review of Scientific Instruments. In addition, he delivered talks at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Columbia University, and the Workshop on Non-neutral Plasmas in Santa Fe.

Fred Sturm, ’73, professor of music

Rosa Tapia, assistant professor of Spanish, presented “Internet-based Communicative Tasks in the Foreign Language Classroom” for the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference and “Manuel Vázquez Montalbán: un retrato de la burguesia catalana” at the University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.

Daniel Taylor, ’63, the Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics, published “May Even in the Concilium Romarici Montis” in Enophilologus. His review of Latin Forms of Address: From Plautus to Apuleius by Eleanor Dickey appeared in the New England Classical Journal.

Directing projects for Timothy Troy, ’85, associate professor of theatre arts and the J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis Professor of Theatre and Drama, included the premiere of his own play Nobility Hill for Cornerstone Theatre in Milwaukee, Hope for the Future for Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, La Traviata for DuPage Opera Theatre, and several productions for the Outagamie County Historical Society’s Plays on History.

Lifongo Vetinde, associate professor of French

Patricia Vilches, associate professor of Spanish and Italian, published “Un río para dos mares: El río y el mar como verdugos/redentores de la subjetividad afro-cubana en La Quinta de los Molinos de Nancy Morejón” in Nueva revista del Pacifico and “La violencia pública/íntima hacia la subjetividad del cuerpo femenino en Julia Álvarez y Rosario Ferré,” in Taller de Letras.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Dirck Vorenkamp’s book-length translation and commentary of a seventh-century Chinese Buddhism text titled Fa-tsang’s Commentary on the Awakening Faith will be published by The Edwin Mellen Press this winter. His article “Evil, the Bodhisattva Doctrine, and Faith in Chinese Buddhism: Examining Fa Zang’s Three Tests” appeared in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy.

Steven Wulf, assistant professor of government, presented a paper titled “Oakeshott’s Dilemma: An Ideology for Gentlemen” at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association.

Ayako Yamagata, assistant professor of Japanese, co-authored “Katakana representation of English loanwords: mora conservation and variable learner strategies,” published in Journal of Sociolinguistics. Her article on “Creating Electronic Student Portfolios” appeared in Association of Teachers of Japanese Occasional Papers, and she presented a session on the same topic at the Association of Teachers of Japanese Seminar at the annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies.

Professor of Russian Richard Yatzeck published three poems (“Leda Bloom,” “Art,” and “Bear Creek”) and two translations (“Jealousy” by Marina Tsvetayeva and “Leavetaking of the Prodigal Son” by R. M. Rilke) in Oasis: A Literary Journal. His story “Oak Island” appeared in Gray’s Sporting Journal, and “Going to Woodcock Corner” was published in Wisconsin Outdoor Journal. Deer and Deer Hunting published his story “Corry’s Buck.”