Select Training & Professional Development

  • Copyediting (Editors Canada seminar)
  • Proofreading (Editors Canada seminar)
  • Stylistic Editing (Editors Canada seminar)
  • Substantive Editing (Editors Canada seminar)
  • Scholarly Editing (Editors Canada seminar)
  • Indexing (Editors Canada seminar)
  • Writing and Editing for the Web (Editors Canada seminar)
  • Freelance Business (Editors Canada seminar)
  • Setting Rates (Editors Canada seminar)
  • Search Engine Optimization​ (Editors Canada seminar)
  • ​Microsoft Word Styles (Editors Canada webinar)
  • ​Indexing Society of Canada Conference, 2019
  • ​Indexing Names Workshop (Indexing Society of Canada)
  • CINDEX Indexing Software training (Indexing Research)
  • SfEP Toronto Mini-Conference, 2019
  • Beyond the Digital Book seminar (Digital Humanities Network)
  • Clear Spanish in a Foreign Land (Editors Canada webinar)
  • Indexing Arabic Names (American Society for Indexing [ASI] webinar)
  • LGBTQIA+ History and Language: What Editorial Professionals Need to Know (Editorial Freelancers Association webinar [EFA])
  • Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) Online Conference, 2020
  • Building a Client Base (EFA webinar)
  • Business Planning for Freelancers (Editors Canada webinar)
  • Exiting 2020: ASI Online Indexing Mini-Conference, 2020 
  • Editing Workflow Practices (Editors Canda meeting)
  • "You're entitled to my opinion": Editing Essays, Short Nonfiction, and Op-Eds (Editors Canada webinar)
  • Indexing Society of Canada Online Conference, "Indexing Unlimited," 2021
  • Editors Canada Online Conference, "Editors Transform," 2021
  • CIEP Online Conference, 2021
  • Indexing Theology, Spirituality & Religion (ASI, Online Learning Course)
  • Ethical Editing of Student Texts (Editors Canada webinar)
  • Editing Indigenous Content: The Importance of Cultural Sensitivity and Respect (Editors Canada webinar)
  • Indexing Society of Canada Online Conference, "Past Perfect, Future Progressive," 2022
  • CIEP Online Conference, 2022
  • EFA/Editors Canada, Academic Editing Chapter sessions
  • Authenticity Reading (EFA webinar)
  • Copyediting Tips for Translators (Editors Canada webinar)
  • Editors Canada Conference, "Editors in Real Life," 2023
  • Editing Citations for Accuracy and Formatting (EFA webinar)
  • Indexing Life Hacks (ASI online event)
  • Creating a Successful Network (EFA/Editors Canada, Academic Editing Chapter webinar)
  • Advanced Track Changes in MS Word (Professional Editors Network)

Presentations

Global Languages Initiative Career Panel, University of Toronto, 7 Feb. 2025.
"Editing as a Career," presented to students in ENG 250: Introduction to English Studies at Northern Kentucky University, 19 Apr. 2023 (via Zoom).
Member of panel discussion on ISC Ewart-Daveluy Indexing Award at ISC 2021 Conference, "Indexing Unlimited," 29 May 2021.
Presented my 2020 Ewart-Daveluy Award-winning index for Heather Bamford, Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100–1600 for group discussion at Indexing Society of Canada, Central Region meeting, 30 Jan. 2021.

Guest Blogs & Industry Articles

"Editing Non-English Quotations and Their Translations in Scholarly Texts: A Case Study." BoldFace: Official blog of Editors Toronto, 5 March 2025.
Invited contributor to Proof Pros, guest blog at Word Stitch Editorial. 2025.
"How to Earn More Money in Your Freelance Editing Business." CIEP Blog, 15 April 2022.
"Ewart-Daveluy 2020 Co-winner Carla DeSantis." ISC/SCI Bulletin 42, no. 3 (Winter 2020): 12.
"Reading on a Deadline." The Editors' Weekly (official blog of Editors Canada), 26 May 2020.

Style Guides

Chicago Manual of Style
MLA
APA
Chicago Deusto (Spanish)
Canadian Press
​And I can easily learn any style guide required.

Working Languages

English
Latin
Italian
Spanish
​Reading knowledge: Ancient Greek, French, German

Professional Associations

  • ​Advanced Professional Member, Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)
  • Editors Canada
  • ​Editorial Freelancers Association​​

Awards

2020 Ewart-Davuley Indexing Award​ for excellence in indexing
THOROUGH. EXPERT. PROFESSIONALISM
​
​She was thorough, stayed in close touch with me throughout the project, displayed expert judgement, and prepared the final text with admirable professionalism.
 
F. J. McGinness, Professor of History, Emeritus

Academic

PhD    Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto.  Major:  Medieval Latin Literature. Minor: Romance Philology. 
MA     Department of Classical Studies, University of Toronto. Area of  concentration: Latin Language and Literature.
​BA     (with High Distinction; Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for highest GPA) St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto.  Specialist Programme: Latin and Spanish.  Minor:  Ancient Greek.

Select Experience

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, 1998–2001. 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.

My Publications

Books
Folchinus de Borfonibus. Divisiones et Memorialia. Edited by Harald Anderson, Carla DeSantis, and Claudia Pagliari. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 201A. Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming (critical edition and study).

Folchinus de Borfonibus. Cremonina:  Grammatica, orthographia et prosodia. Edited, annotated, & introduction by Carla DeSantis. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 201. Turnhout:  Brepols, 2003 (517 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, edited by C. Deroux, 443–63. Collection Latomus 254. 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. Edited by Claudio Leonardi and Lucia Pinelli. Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 1995.