Freelance Editor/Proofreader

PAUL PSOINOS

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Berkeley, Calif. 94702-1721

Telephone: 510-***-****, 510-***-****

E-mail: *******@***.***

EDUCATION

C.Phil., Classical Languages, University of California, Berkeley, 1984

M.A., Greek Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1977

A.B., Classical Languages, University of California, Berkeley, 1975

Bowdoin College, 1964–67

LANGUAGES

French, German, Greek (Homeric, archaic and classical dialects, Koiné, Byzantine, Modern), Italian, Latin (classical, medieval, Renaissance, Modern), Sanskrit

AWARDS

University of California Regents Graduate Fellow, 1978–81

Jane K. Sather Graduate Fellow in Classical Studies, 1977–78

California State Graduate Fellow, 1976–77

Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley, 1975

EXPERIENCE

1992–98: Copyeditor and proofhandler, Stanford University Press (freelance)

Responsibilities: Editing book-length academic manuscripts for accuracy, clarity, consistency, conventionality, and coordination of style and content throughout all elements, including art programs, maps, mathematical display, reference matter, and tables; working closely with authors, designers, project editors, and production staff for most effective presentation of subject matter; checking and approving all stages of typesetters’ and printers’ proofs

Subjects: Byzantine studies, cultural anthropology, history of science, literature, Mediterranean archaeology, political science, social history

1985–92: Associate Editor for Sciences, Stanford University Press

Responsibilities: In addition to those listed above, hiring and supervising freelance copyeditors, proofreaders, indexers, and cartographers; preparing NEH grant applications; working closely with other press staff in project acquisition, development, financing, production, marketing, and promotion

Subjects: Byzantine studies, cultural anthropology, history of science, linguistics, Mediterranean archaeology, natural history (botany, entomology, ichthyology, malacology, ornithology, palaeobiology, population biology)

1984–present: Copyeditor and proofhandler, University of California Press (freelance)

Responsibilities and subjects: In general as above, particularly for classical, medieval, and Byzantine studies, including monographs in Mediterranean archaeology, philosophy, and ecclesiastical, economic, literary, military, political, and social history

1988–92: Copyeditor, Classical Antiquity (freelance)

1983–85: Copyeditor, Representations (freelance)

Responsibilities: Manuscript editing of specialized University of California Press academic journals

1977–present: Translator (freelance)

Responsibilities and subjects: Translating and vetting translations of ancient, medieval, Byzantine, Renaissance, and Modern Greek and Latin texts for academic publications in architecture, art history, biblical exegesis, botany, Christology, church history, history of science, legal studies, library science, literary theory, philosophy, and political science; and likewise of monographs and research papers on Roman imperial history originally written in German and to be published or presented orally in English

1983: Volume coeditor (with Thomas D’Evelyn and Thomas R. Walsh), Studies in Classical Lyric: A Homage to Elroy L. Bundy (California Studies in Classical Antiquity, vol. 14.1)

1975–82: Teaching Assistant—Teaching Associate—Acting Instructor, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley

Responsibilities: Classroom instruction in elementary, intermediate, advanced, and intensive undergraduate courses in Latin and Greek (18 academic terms)

Topics: Greek and Roman cultural history; Greek and Latin grammar, morphology, phonology, and syntax; English grammar and syntax; Latin prose composition; Greek and Latin prose and verse translation; textual analysis

1974–75: Research Assistant, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley

Responsibilities: Text-critical research in support of academic publication; proofhandling

OTHER EDITORIAL CLIENTS

Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies; Mediterranean Historical Review (Tel Aviv University); Northwestern University Press; Palgrave/Macmillan, Ltd.; Princeton University Press; Oxford University Press; University of Texas Press

REFERENCES (in part)

Will Batstone, Professor, Department of Classics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 614-***-****, *********@***.***

Mark Griffith, Professor, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley, 510-***-****, *****@********.***

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Public Health Services, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, 916-***-****, ******@*******.***

Michael Maas, Professor, Department of History, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 713-***-****, ****@****.***

Steven G. Miller, Professor (emeritus), Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley; Director of Excavations (emeritus), Temple of Zeus and Panhellenic Stadium, Ancient Nemea, GR-20500, Greece, ********@********.***

Gregory Nagy, Professor, Department of Classics and Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 617-***-****; Director, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., *****@***.*******.***

Hayden Pelliccia, Professor, Department of Classics, Cornell University, 607-***-****,

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Martin Schwartz, Professor (emeritus), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 510-***-****, *****@********.***

Warren Treadgold, Professor, Department of History, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, 314-***-****, ******.*********@***.***

Thomas Walsh, Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

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