MARTA STEELE
e-mail martasteele@gmail.com
Web site and blog at www.wordsunltd.com; professional page at www.editingunltd.com.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Freelance Academic Reference
Editor for Oxford University Press, 2/2010-present: on project Oxford Bibliographies Online (see http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/browse.1 for description of project).
Contractual Editing, technical/production, for the
National Academy of the Sciences, Transportation Research Board, Washington,
DC, 5/19/08-12/4/10. Freelance
Editing, 2005–8: for Professor (of business and economics) Francesco
Perrini, Bocconi University, Milan—The
New Social Entrepreneurship (Cheltenham, 2006) and various research papers,
reports, and correspondence; Ernest von Simson, Ostriker, Von SImson, Inc., New
York, NY—Surviving Strategic Chaos (as
yet unpublished); Oberhelman and Pedrick, eds., The Soul of Tragedy (University of Chicago Press, 2006); indexed
Kraus and Foley, eds., Visualizing the Tragic (Oxford University Press,
2007); Alice Mary Talbot, ed., Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 59 (Harvard
University Press, 2006). Freelance Academic Book and Reference
Editor for Oxford University Press, 11/99-4/2004: books include S.
R. Holman, The Hungry Are Dying (2001); M. Krawiec, Shenoute and the Women of the
White Monastery (2002); L. Floridi, Sextus
Empiricus (2002); T. Scanlon, Eros and Greek Athletics (2001);
reference editing: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History and The
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2d ed.: articles and language lists (the latter encompassing some 4,000
different languages). Adjunct Assistant Professor of Homeric
Greek, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, 9/00-1/01.
Filling in for Professor Ann Raia, who was on leave of absence, I taught the
beginning term of Homeric Greek to undergraduates at this Catholic liberal arts
college. The students were "Greekless," and teaching Homer as their
first Hellenic exposure was an experimental approach that was surprisingly
successful, given the complexity of the subject. Several of the students had
studied Latin, but the challenge was to orient them more grammatically toward
Greek and language in general. Adjunct Instructor of Rhetoric, English
department, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, 8/01- 12/01. Freelance tutor in Latin for Inlingua, Inc., Princeton, NJ, winter, 2006–7
Freelance Manuscript Editor, Indexer, and
Academic Publishing Consultant under the logo Words, UnLtd., 6/87‑2/91 and
4/97- : Have edited art, sociology, business, history, journalism,
standardized tests, mathematics, popular fiction, school, college‑level,
and professional texts, including two Spanish textbooks; indexed one college
philosophy survey text and three anthropology books; proofread one college
German textbook. Employers include AMACOM Books, Walker and Co., McClanahan
& Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford University Press, and The New Press, New York City; Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, Inc., Fort Worth, TX; Prentice‑Hall and Globe Book
Co., Englewood Cliffs, NJ; Transaction Books, New Brunswick, NJ; Barron's
Educational Series, Inc., Hauppauge, NY (translated descriptive blurbs
from Spanish to English for Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges
also); Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY; line edited Encyclopedia
of the Middle Ages and The Encyclopedia of European Peoples for
Facts on File, Inc., New York, City, 2003; and 2005.
specializing
in classics since 4/97: edited and augmented index of biennial newsletters, 1977-97, for
the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), Princeton
Publications Office (mounted on website http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/newsletter/2003index%20v49.pdf
as well as hard copied; project ongoing as of 6/99); freelance edited
and indexed (general, locorum, and
museum indexes) Himmelmann, Childs, Meyer, Reading Greek Art
(Princeton University Press, 1998); proofread and indexed (general, locorum,
and verborum Greek/Latin) J. McMahon, Paralysin Cave (E.J. Brill, 1998);
edited R. Stroud, The Athenian
Grain-Tax Law of 374/3 B.C. (Hesperia Supplement 29;
Princeton: ASCSA, 1998); edited and
completed 2 indexes (general and locorum) for J. Cooper, Reason and Emotion:
Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory (kleine Schriften of
articles on ancient Greek philosophy, Princeton University Press, 1999);
edited, vetted, and proofread S. Alexander, trans., The Complete Odes
and Satires of Horace (Princeton, 1999). Indexed L. Kurke, Coins,
Bodies, Games, and Gold (general; published Princeton, 7/99), A. Boegehold,
When a Gesture Was Expected (general, locorum, and museum; Princeton,
1999), H. Foley, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (general; Princeton,
2001); consultant in stylistics pertaining to ancient Greek and Latin for The
Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (2004); freelance copy
editor and consultant for the University of Chicago Press: S. Benardete, The
Argument of the Action (2000), B. Krostenko, Cicero, Catullus, and the
Language of Social Performance (2001); W. Burkert, Savage Energies,
tr. Peter Bing (2001); freelance indexer for Zone Books (New York, NY): M.
Sahlins, Culture in Practice (2000). Freelance bibliographer for
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (9/00 – 2/01): S.
Carboni et al.,The Glass of the Sultans; freelance editor for American
Journal of Philology (Johns Hopkins University), fall 2002 (vol.
123.3). Manuscript / Production Editor, specializing
in classics, and Series Editor, Kierkegaard's Writings (the 25
text volumes were completed in 5/98; see further below, at "Honors") and Ramāyāna
of Valmīkī, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2/91‑9/99:
Edited and oversaw the production through bound book of academic manuscripts;
completed a style sheet for the editing of Princeton Press classics books that
address classicist as well as generalist audiences (7/97). Adapted a XyWrite
4.0 computer program to regularize spellings in classics manuscripts; also
developing three other programs to facilitate various stages of classics
indexing – patents applied for on all four. Series editing in cooperation with
the staffs at Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, and the
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California,
Berkeley, CA. Supervised summer intern in production department (1996 and
1997), teaching editorial and production skills; wrote monthly feature essays
for PUProfiles and Words, UnLtd., the Press's newsletters (1996-99 - see below, under
"Publications"); editor of (and continued contributor to) newsletter,
4/99-8/99.
Freelance
Translator/Author
for Transparent Language, Hollis, NH, manufacturer of computer software for
foreign-language, on-screen instruction, 4/95-2/97: Analyzed translation
of and authored Ovid, "Narcissus" episode, Metamorphoses
3.339-510 from classical Latin into English (LE-206); translated from
English to French and authored "Adventure in D.C." and translated
from English to French "Pitfalls of the English Language" for the
English as a Foreign Language division (EF-CE5); translated from French and
authored an eight-volume set of disks, "The French Anthology,"
selected French poetry from Chanson de Roland to Genet.
Editor of Standardized Tests, Educational
Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, 9/85‑6/87: Including SAT, Advanced
Placement, Achievement, GMAT, and GRE, in every subject area and all age
categories from elementary school through adult. Copy Chief, New Jersey
Network (educational television), Trenton, NJ, 5/85‑9/85:
Copyedited Network Magazine and brochures, newsletters, and promotional
material; wrote two magazine features, including one cover story, and rewrote
another cover story (titles detailed below under Publications). Adjunct Instructor in English Composition,
research and exposition, and business writing, Rider College Department of
English, 9/84‑6/85: Taught day and evening students, all ages,
averaging about 65 students per term (3 classes); skill levels ranged from
post-baccalaureate to marginally literate; emphasis was on learning to write
through style and usage exercises and a high volume of actual writing
assignments. Translated into Latin the official diploma awarded annually to
graduates of the Baccalaureate Honors program. Full‑time and Freelance Newspaper
Reporter, 9/83‑9/85: For Valley News, Entertainment
Weekly, Huntsville Star, and Hometown Press, Huntsville,
Alabama; and American Jewish Life (Ewing, NJ), Intercounty Newspapers (Yardley
News, Newtown Advance, Lower Bucks County, PA), and Princeton
Packet (Princeton, NJ): worked for eight months as full‑time news
reporter in Ardmore, Tennessee‑Alabama, covering local government events
as well as human interest, crime, etc.; other freelance assignments were in
business and entertainment promotion, a column on cultural events (Huntsville),
interviewing local celebrities (Huntsville), and two magazine features, one
profiling a master storyteller in Huntsville and the other a study and analysis
of issues related to breast cancer (Princeton, 1985; see on Publications,
below). "ITV:Television's Untapped Gold
Mine" (cover story) and, with John Garbarino, "Montclair State
College's Dumont Legacy," both in the September 1985 issue of Network
Magazine; "Breast Cancer," three illustrated articles (main
feature) in the October 1985 issue of Princeton Packet Magazine;
"Richard Chase: Master Storyteller and Appalachian Folklorist," in
the May‑June 1987 issue of Hometown Press, Huntsville, AL ‑
reprinted in abridged form in the summer 1988 issue of Mountaineer
Times, Copperhill, TN. Commented on and authored Ovid, Metamorphoses
3.339-510, the "Narcissus" episode, from Latin to English for
Transparent Languages, Hollis, NH, published September 1995. Translated
into French and authored two other programs for the EFL division (see above, at
Transparent Language). Cited in a recent New York Times
Bestseller List book, Peter Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable
Story of Risk (New York: Wiley, 1996), pp. 118 and 343, for
translating into English a Latin passage in the correspondence between
Gottfried von Leibniz and Jacob Bernouilli (letter of December 3, 1703). This
book was, in an end-of-the-year summary in The New York Times, cited as
one of the best economics trade books of the year. Frequent contributor (under pseudonym and
real name) to Princeton University Press monthly newsletters PuProfiles and
Words, UnLtd., 1996-99: reviews, essays on grammar and editing
issues, classics, musical events; writer and editor of successor Words,
UnLtd., 4/99-7/99; Words has since August been published
monthly by me as an independent. Have compiled thence (and including earlier
writings and poetry) several collections, including A Most Surprising and
Unexpected Muse and The Return of the Muse. Translated (from French) verses of
Voltaire addressed to Catherine the Great in 1769, p. 11 and n.10 of J.
McInernery, The Folds of Parnassos (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999). “Reference Editing: A Branch of
Freelancing That Offers Everything but Wealth,” The Freelancer
(newsletter of Editorial Freelancers Association, Inc.), cover story, May-June
2002; “The Overseas Contingent: Three EFA ‘Expats’ in Europe,” The
Freelancer, cover story, September-October 2002; "Profile: Reva Singh of Delhi,
India," The Freelancer, November/December 2002, pp. 2-3. "A
Soul's Journey through Life: The Biographer's Craft," The New York
Bookwoman (Women’s National Book Association, New York City Chapter), March
2003; “Powerful Women in Publishing,” The New York Bookwoman, April 2003;
“The Literary Agent as Entrepreneur,” The New York Bookwoman, May
2003; "Literary Blogging," The New York Bookwoman, December
2004. “The Psychology of the Traveler,” story
and pictures to launch the new Web site e-margaux-com November 21, 2003: http://www.e-margaux.com/en/story/psychology-of-the-traveler/01.htm
and http://www.e-margaux.com/en/gallery/psychology-of-the-traveler/photos/01.htm;
“The Truth (?) about the Cistine Chapel,” one of four features in the March 1,
2004, newsletter e-Marginalia: A Passion for Travel, http://www.e-margaux.com/en/story/sistine-chapel/ Letter to the editor of the New York Times reacting to op ed
published 2/3 (by Jimmy Carter and James Baker)—published on line 2/6/08,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/opinion/lweb06vote.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin. B.A.,
linguistics and Spanish, Wellesley College, 1971, as Wellesley College
Scholar (received Freshman Honors, 9/68); M.A., classical philology and
historical and comparative linguistics, UCLA, 1973; Completed Ph.D.
course work, classical philology, Boston University, 1980; elected to
Phi Sigma Iota, a foreign language national honors society, in 1980. Other course
work completed in classics, poetry writing, journalism, Old French and
Provençal poetry, German, history of music, word-processing and Internet, and
public speaking. Computer
background: Currently work on Word 2003 for Windows XP; some newsletter
designing, including photography; also Microsoft Office 2003 and QUARK Express.. MISCELLANEOUS Volunteer for Bryn Mawr-Wellesley
Booksale (2001-): shelving, pricing, sorting all categories of books for
resale to benefit scholarship funds. Volunteer presenter, Wellesley College
Book Award (2002), at two local high schools. Volunteer translator for the HELIOS project (SUDA@lsv.uky.edu), an offshoot of the Classics-L
internet discussion group based at University of Washington (classics@u.washington.edu)
into English of the entire Suda Lexicon from Byzantine Greek (begun 1/98);
my rubrics were 1000-1009. Volunteer
writer/editor for various print releases and publications of the Greater
Princeton Youth Orchestra (GPYO), Princeton, NJ (in which my daughter was principal 2nd violinist, then in 1st
section) 1997-99. Volunteer publicist for Festival for Arts and Music
Excellence (FAME), Lawrenceville, NJ, August 1997; salaried (part-time)
publicist for GPYO, winter 1998; coordinated videotape of 5/98
orchestra concert, including interviews of concerto competition winners and
orchestra conductor, which was aired on Princeton Public Access Cable Channel.
Volunteer reviewer of Medusa Mythology Examination, 1999. College‑level
instructor of Latin while studying graduate‑level classics at University
of California, Los Angeles, 3/72‑6/73, and Boston University, 1/80‑6/80
(also, during these terms, tutored in ancient Greek and ghost‑taught a
high school Latin course). First Day School teacher,
first and second grades, Newtown Friends Meeting, Newtown, PA, 1987‑88;
taught mainly Old Testament and arts and crafts related to this study.
Member: Huntsville
Women Writers Consortium (also co-founder), 1983-84; American Philological
Association, 1997-; American Classical League, 1997-; New Jersey Classics
Association, 2001-; Editorial Freelancers Association, 1985-91, 2000-
(contributed to newsletter); Women in Scholarly Publishing, 1999-; The
Wellesley Club of Central New Jersey, 2001-; Women's National Book Association (contribute writing
to newsletter), New York City Chapter, 2002-; Recording “Scribe,” Steering
Committee, Princeton Coalition for Peace Action, 2005- (member since 2002);
American Association of University Women, (started writers' group and
co-produced program on counter-recruitment) 2004-; Press Liaison, Coalition for
Voting Integrity, Doylestown, PA, 4/2005-.; Recording Secretary, Peace and
Social Concerns Committee, Washington Friends Meeting, Washington, DC, Jan.-May
2008. Listed in the Marquis Who’s
Who in the East, 27th edition; Marquis Who’s Who in America:
Finance and Industry, 31st edition; Marquis Who’s Who in
America, millennium edition; Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 17th
(millennium) edition. Listed in the Directory
of American Scholars, 1999 edition; International Authors and Writers
Who’s Who, May 1999, 16th edition (IBC, Cambridge, England);
pilot edition of IBC’s 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 20th
Century; honored at Royal
Danish Embassy, Washington, D.C., May 1998, for completion of the 25 text
volumes of the Kierkegaard’s Writings series (Princeton University Press
publications). Profiled in the January 2003 issue of The
New York Bookwoman, “Meet a Member” page; acknowledged in the Preface
of The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (University of
Chicago Press, 2004).PUBLICATIONS
(see also new [as of 6/19/03] web site and blog at www.wordsunltd.com)
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