Adam Bell

Services offered

Copyediting and proofreading

Subject areas (and examples of previous work)

• Classical civilization (The Greeks and Their History)
• Film studies (Hollywood Screwball Comedy, 1934–1945)
• French studies (Time and Radical Politics in France)
• History (Death in Old Mexico)
• Literary studies (Cinderella's Glass Slipper)
• Philosophy (The Bergsonian Mind)
• Politics (A Decolonial Feminism)
• Psychoanalysis (Dreams and Atrocity)

Experience

• 2020–present: Freelance Copyeditor and Proofreader
• 2014–20: Production Editor, Swales & Willis
• 2012–14: Rights Assistant, Yale University Press

Training

• 2023: Copyediting 3: Progress (CIEP) (passed with distinction)
• 2021: Editing with Word (CIEP)
• 2021: References (CIEP)
• 2020: Copyediting 2: Headway (CIEP)
• 2014: Introduction to Proofreading (SfEP)

Clients

• Edinburgh University Press
• Integra (for Cambridge University Press)
• Newgen (for Bloomsbury, Manchester University Press and Routledge)
• Pluto Press
• River Editorial (for Edward Elgar Publishing, UCL Press and University of London Press)
• Routledge/Taylor & Francis