Mr Adam Bell

Membership Grade
Advanced Professional Member

About Adam

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


Disclaimer note

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