EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
July 1996-current: Writer, Author, Editor.
Editing and writing news about politics and culture for new news media; researching and gathering international and domestic
news; translating news items from French; editing and rewriting book manuscripts for book publishing
June
1994-July 1996: Senior Editor, Acquisitions.
University of Minnesota Press.
Acquisition of titles in advanced
critical theory,
cultural politics, critical aesthetics, and literary
history. Evaluating manuscript proposals and
full-length
manuscripts for publication; commissioning
and analyzing manuscript reviews; helping authors
organize their manuscripts;
acquiring English-language
translation rights from foreign publishers; contracting translators; negotiating contracts with
authors, literary agents, and foreign publishers;
estimating financial projections for acquired titles;
working with
Marketing and Production to facilitate
publication process; supervising full-time editorial
assistant
April
1990-June 1994: Editor, Acquisitions. University
of Minnesota Press.
Acquisition of titles in advanced
critical theory,
cultural politics, and literary history. Evaluating
manuscript proposals and full-length manuscripts
for
publication; commissioning and analyzing manuscript
reviews; helping authors organize their manuscripts;
acquiring
English-language translation rights from
foreign publishers; contracting translators;
negotiating contracts with authors,
literary agents,
and foreign publishers; estimating financial
projections for acquired titles; working with
Marketing
and Production to facilitate publication
process; supervising full-time editorial assistant
May 1989-April
1990: Assistant Editor, Acquisitions.
University of Minnesota Press.
Assisted Editor-in-Chief in the acquisition
of titles
in advanced critical theory, cultural politics, and
literary history; contracting manuscript reviewers;
preparing
financial projections for acquired titles;
working with Marketing and Production to facilitate
publication process
May
1988-May 1989: Freelance Editor. New York, NY
Structurally edited manuscripts in trade book
publishing
in the humanities and contemporary affairs.
Main clients: HarperCollins; Stewart, Tabori, & Chang;
Council of Foreign
Relations Books
March 1987-May 1988: Assistant Editor, Acquisitions.
HarperCollins, Adult
Trade Hardcover. New York, NY
Structurally edited manuscripts of serious nonfiction,
humanities, and contemporary
affairs; heavy author
contact
May 1983-January 1987: Editor. CBS. New York, NY.
Compiled, edited, and rewrote transcripts and manuscripts.
April 1982-May 1983: Freelance Editor. New
York, NY
Structurally edited manuscripts in trade and college
book publishing in college French and the
humanities.
Main clients: Macmillan Publishing; Random House;
Charles Scribner's Sons; St, Martin's Press; New
York
University Press
August 1980-April 1982: Associate Editor,
Acquisitions. Macmillan Publishing. New York,
NY
Wrote and edited manuscripts in Secondary English and
literature for students and instructors; prepared
and
typemarked manuscripts for composition; monitored
galleys and dummies; commissioned freelance writers,
editors, and
proofreaders; worked with Design and
Production to facilitate publication process
September 1974-June 1979:
Graduate Teaching and
Research Assistant. University of Minnesota. French and humanities.
Instructed
undergraduates on contemporary topics in
the humanities and French literature
EDUCATION
Visiting Professor
of American and cultural studies.
Sichuan University, Chengdu, CHINA, spring and fall
semesters 2002-2003
Affiliated Scholar, Center for Advanced Feminist
Studies, University of Minnesota, fall and spring
semesters, 2001
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures, University of Montana, spring 1999
Certificate
from "Structural Editing Workshop," New
York Univ., spring 1981
Certificate from "Association of American Publishers
Workshop
on Book Publishing," New York, NY, winter
1980
Ph.D., comparative literature, University of
Minnesota, 1980
M.A., comparative literature, University of Minnesota,
1977
Seminars on literature, philosophy, and
psychoanalysis,
University of Paris VIII-Vincennes,
Paris, spring 1975 and 1976
B.A., magna cum laude, (English and French),
University
of Minnesota, 1974
PUBLICATIONS
The Untimely, novel, Trade Paperback, 2008. Wordclay Publishing
"Introduction
to the Media," The Twin Cities Green
Guide, December 2001.
Time Out of Marriage, novel, Trade
Paperback,
2001. Xlibris Publishing.
Love in This Time of Silicon, novel, Trade Paperback,
2000: Xlibris
Publishing.
Numerous news articles and analyses at new news media
websites; please see sample links below
"Design
Book Review: Inventing Our Heritage," Book
Review in Public Art Review 11:1.22 Spring/Summer 2000
"Deleuze
and Lacan: Close Encounters," in Sites 1:2
1998
"Gilles Deleuze: In Memoriam: A Personal Note," in
Iris
23, Spring 1997
"The Things You See When You Don't Have a Grenade,"
Book Review, in Public Art Review
8:2.16,
Spring/Summer 1997
"Gendered Productions," More and Less 1:1 1994
"Black Feminist
Critique of Psychoanalysis," Feminism
and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary, ed.
Elizabeth Wright, Cambridge:
Basil Blackwell, 1992.
"Publishing: Disciplines and Colonization," Minnesota
Daily, April 30, 1991.
"Postcolonial
Politics after the Cold War," Minnesota
Daily, January 8, 1991.
"Woman and Metaphor," Enclitic, 2:2
1978.
SAMPLE ARTICLES IN MEDIA--SEE LINKS BELOW
CONFERENCE LECTURES
"Digital Cities," Five Rivers International
Film
Festival, Missoula, MT, September 17, 1998
"Americans at Home and Abroad," Americas Abroad
Colloquium,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, May 24,
1996
"Urban Diasporas," School of Theory and Criticism,
Dartmouth College,
June 28, 1995
"The Politics of Publishing," National Panel on the
Future of Comparative Literature, Washington
University,
St. Louis, November 5, 1992
"Connections between Theory and Publishing," Critical
Theory Group Series, University
of Manitoba,
March 28, 1991
"Woman and Metaphor" Panel on Shakespeare, Midwest
Modern Language Association Annual
Meeting,
Minneapolis, November 1978
HONORARY AWARDS
Regents Graduate Fellow, University of Minnesota,
1974-1979
Special
Citation in Who's Who among Students in
American Colleges and Universities 1971-1972
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
French
(all skills, near-native fluency); Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (proficiency)
REFERENCES Furnished on request
SAMPLE ARTICLES IN MEDIA--LINKS
