Annotated bibliography

Late last year into early this year, I co-wrote an article with two other Mathemalchemists, Susan Goldstine and Henry Segerman. A playful narrative romp through the Mathemalchemy project, Ars Mathemalchemica: From Math to Art and Back Again appears in the August 2022 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

My bibliography amuses me. I don't publish often, but I do get around.

• Goldstine, S., Paley, E., and Segerman, H. “Ars Mathemalchemica: From Art to Math and Back Again.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society. August 2022.

• “Light and Shadow.” Pottery Making Illustrated (November/December 2021). 

• “Raiding the Kitchen.” Pottery Making Illustrated (July/August 2021). 

• “Worship.” The Sun Magazine, Readers Write (October 2019), name withheld. 
• Can you find me? Hint: I'm the church musician who's destroying the world.

• “Thinking like a Pianist/Mathematician/Potter-Designer: Strategies for Tuning Ocarinas.” Proceedings of Bridges 2015: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture (2015), 559–562.
• Want to learn how to make an ocarina on which you can play a diatonic scale? This mathy article is for you.

• “Schumann’s Dramatic Choral and Stage Works.” In The Cambridge Companion to Schumann, 2007.
• This is the article about which a well-meaning colleague advised, "you know, to get tenure, you can't just publish in popular venues--you have to do solid research." While I'm sure many people have a copy of this popular book on their shelf--I do, don't you?--the suggestion that my research would be more valuable if it appealed to fewer people was one more reason to quit academia. I think the chapter is both solid and an interesting read--reviewers thought it was too--and I still stand by my reasoning for excluding Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust.

• A series on leaving academia for The Chronicle of Higher Education under the pseudonym Catherine Evans:
•  “Giving Up a Good Thing,” 4 April 2003, http://chronicle.com/article/Giving-Up-a-Good-Thing/45138/
• “So Why Are You Really Leaving?” 6 May 2003, http://chronicle.com/article/So-Why-Are-You-Really-Leaving-/45203/
• “Cappuccino Dreams,” 19 September 2003, http://chronicle.com/article/Cappuccino-Dreams/45308/

• An advice columnist at the Chronicle named me Catherine Evans; I had written to her asking how to politely quit. Oh, what a young thang I was, trying not to burn bridges. She also turned me from a Music Theorist into an Art Historian. I was nonetheless still worried about being recognized, so I downplayed certain issues that, in retrospect, I shouldn't have downplayed. Or maybe I should have. I'll just note here that five years after I changed careers, I ran into a grad student who inquired whether I "worked outside the home," and fifteen years after changing careers, I ran into a colleague who bemoaned that yet another of his very few female colleagues had just up and quit, "and she doesn't even have a husband to support her like you did." What's wrong with women, eh? 

• “Zwischenreden für Zwischenakte: Egmont and the Melodramatic Supplement.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 2005.
• Derrida's "logic of the supplement" has stuck with me all the way into pottery, so that's something.

• “The Power of No.” Big Apple Parent, August 2003, p. 117.
• I wrote a lot of stories about E when he was wee, and I got this one published. Of course, I told no one about it, since it would have counted against tenure, and I have no idea if anyone even in New York read it.

• “‘The Voice Which Was My Music’: Narrative and Nonnarrative Musical Discourse in Schumann’s Manfred.” 19th-Century Music 24/1 (Summer 2000): 3-20.
• My first article post grad school, published in one of my favorite journals. Schumann's music for Manfred is some of the creepiest music ever. I used to play the music for the conjuration of Manfred's deceased beloved Astarte on the organ with all of the lights off except the ones in the organ loft, and it was pretty trippy.

• “Narratives of ‘Incidental’ Music in German Romantic Theater.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1998.

• Paley, E.S., Low, F.J., McGraw, J.T., Cutri, R., and Rix, H.-W. “An Infrared/Optical Investigation of 100 Micron ‘Cirrus.’” The Astrophysical Journal 376 (20 July 1991): 335–341.
• Interstellar gas and dust are cold.