Faculty
Creative and Scholarly AchievementsDuring 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.”