Based in Toronto, Canada, I have been a freelance editor since 2011, specializing in scholarly and academic materials (humanities, social sciences, business). In addition, I have much experience working with multilingual texts (e.g. English, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek). I earned a PhD in medieval Latin and Romance Philology from the University of Toronto and also hold an MA in classical Latin and a BA in Classics and Spanish from the University of Toronto. My advanced linguistic training in several languages makes me attuned in a unique way to correct expression and grammatical precision in English.
My clients have included University of Toronto Press, University of California Press, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the Royal Ontario Museum, Journal of West Indian Literature, Canadian Scholars' Press, University of Toronto Research Services, and individual scholars. As someone who has always gravitated towards language and words, I am an editor with a keen eye for detail, originally trained in the exacting skill of editing medieval Latin manuscripts - a skill that has well prepared me for polishing scholars’ and other authors' work with precision and correctness for publication. In addition to my university-level teaching experience, I am myself a published author with experience in managing a large writing project from research and writing to editing, indexing, and proofhandling.
As a dual U.S./Canadian citizen, I am available for telecommuting employment in both countries.
Please see my profiles on LinkedIn, Editors Canada, Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, Indexing Society of Canada, Editorial Freelancers Association, and Facebook.
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My clients have included University of Toronto Press, University of California Press, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the Royal Ontario Museum, Journal of West Indian Literature, Canadian Scholars' Press, University of Toronto Research Services, and individual scholars. As someone who has always gravitated towards language and words, I am an editor with a keen eye for detail, originally trained in the exacting skill of editing medieval Latin manuscripts - a skill that has well prepared me for polishing scholars’ and other authors' work with precision and correctness for publication. In addition to my university-level teaching experience, I am myself a published author with experience in managing a large writing project from research and writing to editing, indexing, and proofhandling.
As a dual U.S./Canadian citizen, I am available for telecommuting employment in both countries.
Please see my profiles on LinkedIn, Editors Canada, Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, Indexing Society of Canada, Editorial Freelancers Association, and Facebook.
Contact me for an estimate.
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Latin Instructor, International Languages, St. Michael's Choir School, Toronto Catholic District School Board, 2019. Adjunct Professor, Toronto School of Theology/St. Augustine's Seminary, 2013-2014. Latin course for graduate students. Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, Sep. 1998-Dec. 2001. Engaged in research and publishing. Sessional Instructor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1997. Medieval Latin (MA level) for graduate students. Research Assistant, ITER Bibliography, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, 1996-1997. Indexing for electronic bibliography project. Contract Instructor/Course Director, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1991-1996. Taught Latin courses to graduate students over various semesters during the 5-year period. Research Fellow, Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Florence, Italy, 1995. Contributed entries to and indexed for the annual bibliography Medioevo Latino published by SISMEL; engaged in research. |
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English Latin Italian Spanish Reading knowledge: Ancient Greek, French, German Professional Associations
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My Publications
Book
Folchinus de Borfonibus. Cremonina: Grammatica, orthographia et prosodia. Ed., annotated, & introduction by Carla DeSantis. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 201. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003 (338 pp.; critical edition and study).
Articles
Carla DeSantis. “Prudentius’ St. Vincent: A Study of Peristephanon 5.” In Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History X. Collection Latomus 254, edited by C. Deroux, 443-63. Brussels: Latomus, 2000.
Carla DeSantis. “Latin versus the Vernacular in Renaissance Italy: The Development of the Controversy with special reference to Carlo Sigonio’s De latinae linguae usu retinendo (1556).” Rinascimento 35 (1995): 349–71.
Book reviews
Carla DeSantis. Review of Theodolus, Ecloga: Il canto della verità e della menzogna, trans. Francesco Mosetti-Casaretto. Journal of Medieval Latin 10 (2000): 409–12.
Carla DeSantis. Review of Reading Medieval Latin, by K. Sidwell. Journal of Medieval Latin 8 (1998): 243–8.
Signed contributions to annotated bibliography: Medioevo Latino: Bollettino bibliografico della cultura europea da Boezio a Erasmo (secoli VI – XV) 16. Ed. Claudio Leonardi & Lucia Pinelli. Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 1995.
Book
Folchinus de Borfonibus. Cremonina: Grammatica, orthographia et prosodia. Ed., annotated, & introduction by Carla DeSantis. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 201. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003 (338 pp.; critical edition and study).
Articles
Carla DeSantis. “Prudentius’ St. Vincent: A Study of Peristephanon 5.” In Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History X. Collection Latomus 254, edited by C. Deroux, 443-63. Brussels: Latomus, 2000.
Carla DeSantis. “Latin versus the Vernacular in Renaissance Italy: The Development of the Controversy with special reference to Carlo Sigonio’s De latinae linguae usu retinendo (1556).” Rinascimento 35 (1995): 349–71.
Book reviews
Carla DeSantis. Review of Theodolus, Ecloga: Il canto della verità e della menzogna, trans. Francesco Mosetti-Casaretto. Journal of Medieval Latin 10 (2000): 409–12.
Carla DeSantis. Review of Reading Medieval Latin, by K. Sidwell. Journal of Medieval Latin 8 (1998): 243–8.
Signed contributions to annotated bibliography: Medioevo Latino: Bollettino bibliografico della cultura europea da Boezio a Erasmo (secoli VI – XV) 16. Ed. Claudio Leonardi & Lucia Pinelli. Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 1995.
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada: Siete cuentos by Gabriel García Márquez
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Collected Novellas by Gabriel García Márquez
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
