Education & Experience

Experience
Freelance Editor and Indexer (2008–present)
I work with academic presses and with individual scholars who are preparing their manuscripts for publication. I have edited and indexed multi-authored volumes and monographs in a wide range of fields: archaeology, international relations, literary and linguistic studies, political biography, religion, and women's studies. I have a particular interest in topics related to Asia.

Editor, Rubicon Publishing (2005–2007)
I edited the Timeline series of graphic novels for young readers, shaping authors' drafts into a form suitable for illustration. The series was co-published by Scholastic in Canada and by Harcourt Achieve in the US—one of my tasks was to Americanize or Canadianize the texts as required.

Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland Baltimore County (1998–2002)
I taught history of the English language and medieval literature to upper-level students. I also instructed students in the basic techniques of literary criticism. My research interest was the Old English semantic field of the mind.

Proofreader, Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto (1995–1998)
I proofread dictionary entries, including citations in Old English and Latin.

Professional Training
Scholarly and Reference Publishing (Instructor: Camilla Blakeley)
Chang School of Continuing Education, Ryerson University (2011)

Copy Editing for Books, Journals, and Reports (Instructor: Elizabeth D'Anjou)
Chang School of Continuing Education, Ryerson University (2010) 

Indexing: Theory and Application (Instructor: Jan Wright)
University of California Berkeley Extension Program (2008)

Indexing from A to Z (Instructor: Heather Ebbs)
Editors' Association of Canada Seminar (2008)

Education
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, MA and Ph.D., 1992–1998
Doctoral thesis title: The Anglo-Saxon Mind: Metaphor and Common Sense Psychology in Old English Literature

National Institute of Education, Singapore, Postgraduate Diploma in Education, 1990–1991

Somerville College, Oxford University, BA (Hons, First Class), 1987–1990
  
Academic Awards
Solmsen Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2000–2001
Institute of Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

University of Toronto Open Doctoral Fellowship, 1997–1998

Connaught Fellowship, 1996–1997

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1995–1996

Turville-Petre Prize, 1990
Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London

Coombs Prize in English, 1990
Somerville College, Oxford University

Undergraduate Teaching Award in English, 1987–1990
Public Service Commission, Singapore

Humanities Award, 1985–1986
Public Service Commission, Singapore