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I’m an experienced freelance editor, specializing in academic and research texts. For over a decade, I’ve helped authors develop and refine their work from first draft to proofs, with particular expertise and interest in supporting writers for whom English is a second or additional language.

My clients clients include postgraduate researchers, independent and early-career scholars, and established academics in the arts and sciences. As an academic author with a PhD, I have first-hand experience of the academic writing and publishing process which directly informs the services I provide. Likewise, my role as Series Editor for two book series with scholarly publishers gives me unique insight into the academic publication process, and how to maximize a manuscript’s chances of success.

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Series Editor

Hagiography Beyond Tradition at Amsterdam University Press

The study of sanctity in medieval Europe is starting to elicit cutting-edge, innovative and genuinely interdisciplinary scholarship that destabilizes what people have conventionally considered to be hagiography. This is demonstrated in the topic range of panels sponsored by the Hagiography Society at recent landmark medievalist conferences. While hagiography has traditionally been understood only in religious terms, recent scholarship moves beyond such frameworks to consider alternate ways of identifying and representing exemplary people. So doing, such research emphasises modern cultural analogies and resonances with medieval figures.

It is not enough, however, to approach saints’ lives with a “sexy” modern framework. The best scholarship is rooted in analytical rigour, close attention to context(s), and a keen awareness of the potential pitfalls of anachronism, all the while accepting that anachronism can often be productive. This series provides ahome for the kind of work that negotiates that border between the traditional and the contemporary and encourages scholarship enhanced by interventions drawn
from celebrity studies, trans studies, crip theory, animal and monster studies, the history of senses and the emotions, media studies, and beyond. Rather than considering hagiography as a single genre, the series is open to expanding the ways in which we imagine how people come to be offered for veneration, as well as the media and genres in which they are fashioned, represented, and celebrated.

Keywords Hagiography, sanctity, critical theory, intersectionality, interdisciplinary, literature, culture, medieval, early modern

Geographical scope Global, including but not limited to Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia

Chronological scope Medieval and early modern world

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Premodern Transgressive Literatures at Medieval Institute Publications

This series takes a decisively political, intersectional, and interdisciplinary approach to medieval and early modern literature. It supports scholarship which transgresses normative bounds along various axes. This includes the transgression of temporal boundaries which superficially separate the premodern era from our twenty-first century moment. We aim to show, with insistent urgency, the ways in which the premodern can help us make sense of the modern, and the ways in which cutting-edge modern paradigms can help us better understand established, canonical premodern texts.

This series is acutely aware of the role of the scholar in the production of history and the crucial importance of the context of scholarly work: the Academy, with its unique characteristics, both positive and negative. As such, Premodern Transgressive Literatures makes space for provocative discussion about the business of producing—and teaching—transgressive work in the neo-liberalized Academy.

Medieval Institute Publications welcomes monographs from established and early career researchers, collections of thematic essays, scholarly editions and translations with substantial introductions and apparatus.

Keywords Intersectionality, interdisciplinary, literature, culture, medieval, early modern, pedagogy

Geographical scope Global, including but not limited to Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia

Chronological scope Medieval and early modern world

For more info, check out the series webpage, or feel free to drop me a note