Freelance Editor English Teacher
Resume:
Billie Maciunas, PhD
Ocala, FL 34470
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Editor, Scholarly Books and Articles
Website Content
More than 10 years’ experience editing scholarly books and papers. Three years’ experience editing language art textbooks. Expertise in Microsoft Word, Excel, MS Project, and PowerPoint. Experience with Dreamweaver, In Copy. Ease in learning new software programs. Eye for graphic design and layout.
Related Professional Experience
project editor, Sept. 2006–Jan. 2009. Harcourt School Publishers, Orlando, FL
Wrote assessments, lessons, teaching strategies, guidelines, and other materials for grade 3 language arts textbooks
Collaborated with the editorial and media staff to contribute and/or support the development of prototypes, manuscript, and final copy for print
Reviewed, revised, and edited content outsourced to contract writers/developers
Contributed to state standards research and planning documents in collaboration with editorial and media staff
freelance editor, Nov. 2000–Sept. 2006, For international scholars writing for American periodicals, Durham, NC.
Created online editing business
Gave 3-day graduate-level workshop for business students on writing for American periodicals, Zurich 01/04
associate director, Jan. 1999—Nov. 2001. Duke University Fuqua School of Business, Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Durham, NC
Edited, formatted, and marketed CIBER teaching resource materials
Researched, edited, and compiled operational reports and analyses for the U.S. Department of Education
Researched and coauthored grant renewal applications and foundation grant proposals for program funding
Designed promotional materials for CIBER programs for website and professional journals
Met deadlines using Microsoft Project and Access. Other duties included
– monitoring $1 million operating budget (3 yr.) – creating Access database forms
– supervising and coordinating staff assistants – hiring and performance appraisals
– project collaboration with other business schools nationally – outreach networking with regional universities and community colleges
Other Employment and Significant Experience
adult education teacher, 2019-2021, Lowell Correctional Institution, Ocala, FL. Teach GED curriculum to inmates of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. Grade papers. Specialty in English language arts.
English teacher, 2004-2018, The University of Central Florida and Seminole State College. Average class size, 25 enrollments. Teach MLA style in context of narrative, expository, argumentative, and research papers. Grade papers for grammar, content, and style.
editor/associate in research, 1998–1999, Department of Immunology, Duke University. Process manuscripts from first edit to publication. Bibliographies, correspondence. The Chicago Manual of Style.
program coordinator, 1996–1998, Biotechnology for Business, Department of Chemistry, Duke University. Website and brochure design (marketing).
author's editor, Valuing Health Care: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and other Medical Technologies, Cambridge UP (400 p); The Information World of Retired Women, Greenwood Press (280 p).
editor, 1994–1995, Publications Services, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Publications
Florbela Espanca, selected poems. Trans. Billie Maciunas. Gávea Brown, July 2001.
Mr. Fluxus: George Maciunas, 1932-1978, Selected letters by Billie Maciunas. UK: Thames 1998.
"Gilka Machado: The Brazilian Subterranean Tradition." Brazil/Brasil, 1998.
"An Interview with Billie Maciunas." The Fluxus Reader. Academic Press, 1997.
Bristow, Joseph, ed. Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 13(1995): 398–400. (Book Review)
Sally Munt, ed. New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 13(1995): 398–400. (Book Review)
Oxford Companion to Women's Writing, Entry on Meridel LeSueur, Jan. 1994
"Feminist Epistemology in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 20(3–4): 249–58.
"Voice as Thematics in the Poetry of Florbela Espanca." Hispanófila 103 (1991): 61–72.
Unsettled Oranges (poetry), Rhinebeck, NY: Small Towns, 1981.
"The Usual Insanity of an Ordinary Day" (short story). Ostrich. Great Britain: Erdesun Pomes (1976): 15–16.
Education
PhD in Comparative Literature, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA in Romance Languages, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA in Literature and Languages, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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