Subject Areas

I help scholars in the humanities and qualitative, non-experimental social sciences with book manuscripts, book proposals, individual book chapters, essays, and journal articles. I edit in fields such as literary studies and film studies, regional or area studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, history, religion, anthropology, sociology, art history, and political science.

I offer the perspective of an attentive outside reader. Even if you work in the disciplines in which I was trained—literary studies or Japanese studies—I almost certainly won’t be an expert in your particular research topic. As Mary Laur at the University of Chicago Press explains, editors must be “sufficiently removed from [the work] to judge whether academic authors are communicating their ideas clearly to other interested but not fully knowledgeable readers.” My generalist perspective helps me edit on behalf of readers who aren’t immersed in your research.