ABOUT ME

I’m a qualified professional copyeditor with a Graduate Diploma from RMIT’s Editing and Publishing program (2010, with Distinction). I have technical expertise in both academic writing and grammar and style conventions. I graduated with a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Sydney in 2003, worked as a proofreader of radio-news transcriptions at the ABC, and lectured and tutored for several years at a number of Australian universities. I have also published widely on the politics of sexed embodiment in a number of academic journals and in my monograph, Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery: Deviance, Desire and the Pursuit of Perfection (Palgrave 2018).

I have been a specialist academic editor since 2010. In this time, I have worked with a diverse group of academics both in Australia and overseas and at different stages of their careers, from PhD students to early-career researchers and seasoned professors. My clients, past and present, come from a wide range of disciplines including history, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, Indigenous studies, performance studies, Japan studies, communications, visual arts, law, international relations and social work.

Recent projects include Martindale Stories website, led by ARC CI Penny Edmonds (winner of the History Council of South Australia’s 2025 Digital Technologies Prize); The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials, ed. Jennifer Barrett, Avril Alba and Dirk Moses (University of Pennsylvania Press 2025); Picturing Citizenship: Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation, ed. Fay Anderson, Jane Lydon, Melissa Miles and Amanda Nettelbeck (Bloomsbury 2025); Taking to the Field: A History of Australian Women in Science by Jane Carey (Monash University Publishing 2023; winner of the Ernest Scott Award 2025); Aftermaths: Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, ed. Angela Wanhalla, Lyndall Ryan and Camille Nurka (Otago University Press 2023).