Here are a few samples of my work as a copy editor on paperback publications. I have worked directly for Memorial University Press and Shoreline Press, as well as doctors of English and Anthropology.
Copy Editor
From the early 1800s on, we encounter the first French writers to become interested in life in Newfoundland. This anthology provides an image of Newfoundland that was shaped over many years of writings by countless French voyagers—sailors and naval officers, diplomats, scientists, journalists, artists, and other visitors—who described this region and its people for their readers back in France.
Copy Editor
Bringing Home Animals is an ethnography detailing what the author learned as a result of travelling and working with Iinuu (Cree) hunters and their families in Northern Quebec. The study was conducted from 1969–1971 and is a rich example of subsistence hunting in an Indigenous territory. The second edition revisits and updates contextual material following the construction of the James Bay hydroelectric project in the region while preserving the original argument.
Copy Editor
John Nick Jeddore’s richly detailed memoir begins when he was a boy in the 1920s. His historical account makes a major contribution to our understanding of life “on the country” and in Bay D’Espoir, as well as what it was like to be confined to a tuberculosis sanatorium and to serve overseas during WWII. John Nick recounts a lifetime of following in his ancestors’ footsteps and reflects on his attempts to reconcile that heritage with a changing social and cultural world.
Copy Editor and Research Assistant
Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock continues to sparkle after three hundred years as a peerless gem in the canon of English literature. This collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the poem. Their approaches reflect the vast range of interpretations of Pope’s text, from discussions of religion, gender, and eighteenth-century biological science to an interview with Sophie Gee about her novelization of the poem in The Scandal of the Season.
Copy Editor and Research Assistant
An examination of how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about the edges of the world. The contributors examine the attraction of the sublime, remoteness, continental border points, and the dangers of the sea.
Copy Editor
This memoir reflects on the Pointe Claire community through the author’s passion for water sports. This makes the book a fascinating read as it illustrates the evolution of the village of Pointe Claire into a town and beyond. As time passed, the growing village took on a unique flavour. As it sits on the St. Lawrence, the opportunity to explore and live by the water is a significant factor in the town’s development.
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