Rebecca du Plessis | academic humanities | French literature | fiction
Oxford area – working for clients remotely worldwide
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- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Rebecca
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I am an experienced copy-editor, proofreader, and translator (French to English) providing services to book and journal publishers, especially in academic but also fiction publishing.
In academic publishing, I am specialised in French literature and history, but I can turn my hand to most humanities subjects. In fiction publishing, my specialism is editing translations from French.
Media
Journals, Books, Illustrated books, Multi-author books
Experience
Own editing business since 2005
Production Editor, Blackwell Publishing, 2006 to 2007
Publishing Manager, Voltaire Foundation, 2003 to 2006
Assistant Editor, Periplus Publishing, 2002 to 2003
Assistant Production Editor, Infoconomy (business magazine), 2000 to 2002
Bilingual Personal Assistant, IMS Health Paris, 1998 to 1999
Recent training
Copy-editing 3, CIEP, 2024, merit
Fiction Editing, CIEP, 2023
Copyright for Editorial Professionals, CIEP, 2022
Clients for whom you have worked within the past three years
Society for French Studies (French Studies and French Studies Bulletin, academic journals published by Liverpool University Press)
Gallic Books
Pushkin Press
Reaktion Books
Flammarion
Folio Society
Subjects
French (literature, language, history)
History (academic)
Literature (academic)
Literature in translation
Fiction (adult, literary, historical, popular)
Qualifications
BA English and French
PG Dip Translation (French to English)
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Specialisms
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Disclaimer note
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