Expert editor and writer of academic and general-interest text
  • More than 20 years of experience editing, proofreading, and writing academic books, theses, and articles
  • Reliable in executing independent projects on time and within budget
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  • Expert on literature, literary theory and criticism, composition studies, pedagogy, cultural critique, other arts and humanities
  • Proficient in on-line editing
  • Proficient in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, and German
  • Expert in MS Word and Adobe Acrobat; some experience with Adobe InDesign

    Ph.D.  Comparative Literature GPA: 3.921                  University of California, Berkeley

    M.A.   Comparative Literature GPA: 3.914                  University of California, Berkeley

    B.A.    Classics (Latin and Greek) magna cum laude   Yale University

    Sarah Herbold Editing Services • Berkeley
    Principal • 1992–present

    Provided copyediting services to academic clients, including Stanford University Press, University of California Press, and individual clients

     

    Copyediting
    Baran, Nick, and Sarah Herbold. The Very Simple, Amazingly Straightforward, Low-Stress Computer Buyer’s Workbook. San Francisco: IDG, 1992.
    Goldstein, Joshua. “A Behavioral Gompertz Model for Cohort Fertility Schedules in Low- and Moderate-Fertility Populations,” working paper, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rohstock, Germany, 2009.
    ———. “A Secular Trend toward Earlier Male Sexual Maturity: Evidence from Shifting Ages of Male Young Adult Mortality,” working paper, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rohstock, Germany, 2009.
    Hertz, Neil. George Eliot’s Pulse. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
    Horton, H. Mack. The Journal of Socho. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
    ———, ed. and trans. Song in an Age of Discord. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
    LeBlanc, Camille. “Regulatory Competition in Domain-Name System Regulation.”Master’s thesis, University of California, Berkeley, School of Information Management Systems, 2002.
    Resource: An Encyclopedia of Energy Utility Terms. San Francisco: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 1992.
    Smart Health: The Complete Guide to Health Care in the Bay Area. San Francisco: KQED, 1993.
    Steinberg, Goodwin. From the Ground Up: Building Silicon Valley. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
    Webster, Brenda. Vienna Triangle. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2009.
    ———. The Beheading Game. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2006.

     

    Academic Writing
    “The Confessions and the Imagined Woman Reader.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 32, no. 3 (Spring 1999): 333–53.
     “‘Dolores Disparue’: Reading Misogyny in Lolita.” In Approaches to Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita, edited by Galya Diment and Zoran Kuzmanovich. New York: Modern Languages Association of America, 2008.
    “Genre and Feminine Duplicity in the Confessions.” In Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s Confessions and Reveries, edited by John C. O’Neal and Ourika Mostefai. New York: Modern Languages Association of America, 2003.
     “‘(I have camouflaged everything, my love)’: Lolita and the Woman Reader.” Nabokov Studies 5 (1998–99): 71–98.
    “Reflections on Modernism: Lolita and Political Engagement, or, How the Left and the Right Both Have It Wrong.” Nabokov Studies 3 (1996): 145–50.
    Teaching Writing in Comparative Literature 1A and 1B, writing instruction manual for graduate student instructors teaching writing, Department of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley, 1985.
     “Well-Placed Reflections: (Post)Modern Woman as Symptom of (Post)Modern Man.” Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society 21, no. 1 (Autumn 1995): 83–115.
    “Woman as Symptom of Modernity.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1998.

     

    Proofreading
    Goldstein, Tom and Jethro K. Lieberman. The Lawyer’s Guide to Writing Well. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
    Green, Peter. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1993.
    ———, ed. Hellenistic History and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
    Hadley, Elaine. Melodramatic Tactics. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
    Stokhov, Martin. World and Life as One. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
    Vasaly, Ann. Representations: Images of the World in Ciceronian Oratory. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1993.
    Vrettos, Athena. Somatic Fictions: Imaging Illness in Victorian Fictions. Stanford:Stanford University Press, 1995.
    Williams, Bernard. Shame and Necessity. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1993.
    Winter, Sarah. Freud and the Institutions of Psychoanalytic Knowledge. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

     

    University of California Extension, Fall Program for Freshmen • Berkeley
    English Instructor • 1997–present

    Teach writing and literature to incoming UC Berkeley freshmen

    University of California, Department of Comparative Literature • Berkeley
    Lecturer • 2002–09

    • Taught writing and literature to UC Berkeley undergraduates
    • Supervised and revamped freshman writing and teacher training programs
    • Published several academic articles in peer-reviewed books and periodicals
    • Helped revise and drafted departmental policies and procedures
    • Mentored and supervised graduate student instructors
    • Wrote two handbooks on teaching writing

    University of California, Department of Comparative Literature • Berkeley
    Graduate Student Instructor • 1984–92

    Taught writing and literature to UC Berkeley undergraduates

     

    References and writing or editing samples are available upon request.