I work with academic writers to ensure their work is grammatically correct and polished. My editing addresses both stylistic details and argumentative rigor.
I have professional editing experience and training, and I’m also an academic. I’ve worked on everything from blog posts and book reviews to journal articles, edited collections, and monographs. I have experience helping non-native English speakers polish their writing—without losing their authentic voices.
Qualifications
- Copyediting certificate from UC San Diego Extended Studies
- Extensive editorial experience with academic articles and books
- PhD in philosophy, focusing on language
- Experience with foreign languages and diacritical marks
About my clients
My clients are academic or nonfiction writers looking for an analytically minded editor. For many of them, English is not their mother tongue, but they’re expected to write in it. (And they may have tried ChatGPT and AI for editing help, but found it flattens their voice, hallucinates citations, and is unsatisfactory for academic work.)
I specialize in academic editing for the humanities (e.g., art, classics, history, literature, philosophy, and religion). You can read what other academics have said about my work on my testimonials page.
Services
I provide two main services:
Developmental editing is a high-level manuscript analysis in which I identify strengths and weaknesses and provide suggestions for structural revisions through a report and a virtual meeting. This kind of editing helps with the initial stages of book proposals, grants, journal articles, and monographs. It’s for when you have a draft but want to make significant changes. It does not involve editing for grammar, punctuation, etc.
Copyediting is a detailed manuscript analysis in which I suggest and implement revisions for grammaticality, clarity, and cohesiveness. I can also ensure your manuscript follows a publisher’s house style. I have three levels of copyediting available, depending on the extent to which I intervene in the writing style and structure of the manuscript.
- Light copyediting fixes errors in grammar and spelling, and it ensures consistency within the manuscript and with a style guide.
- Medium copyediting is light copyediting plus identification of infelicities in language and cohesiveness.
- Heavy copyediting is light copyediting plus proposing revisions to correct infelicities in language and cohesiveness.
If you have questions about what’s right for your manuscript, contact me!
I am scheduling work with academic editing clients beginning in late May 2026.
