Mary Freeman Editing

Editing & Coaching for Academic and General Writers

Selected Projects: Editing & Coaching

Peer-reviewed articles

Copy Editor (Interim). Journal of Literacy Research (SAGE)

Issue 56.3 (forthcoming 2024): Literacy as Bearing Witness: Teachers Expanding Literacy Through Authentic and Hybrid Student Narratives [Editorial]

  • Alston, C. & Eagle, J., “Squeezed in: Writing Instruction Over Time.”
  • Baldonado-Ruiz, M., “From Silence to Testimonio: Latina Adolescents’ Agency in Writing.”
  • Godfrey, V, “‘What’s Unexpected?’; Interventionist Explanations of Dyslexia.”
  • Afolalu, L., “I’m Still Nigerian: Navigating Race Through Digital Literacies.”

Issue 56.2 (2024): Reading Linguistically Diverse Print, Visual, and Digital Texts Across Physical and Virtual Worlds [Editorial]

Issue 56.1 (2024): Science of Literacies: Meaning Making & Critical Pragmatism in the Post Digital Age  [Editorial]  

Issue 55.4 (2023):Critically Engaging “the Other”: Mediating Relationships through Narrative [Editorial]

  • McElroy, H. B. “Rural Women, Creative Writing, and Resistance,” pp. 361-382.
  • Corbitt, A. “Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity,” pp. 383-405.
  • Parton, C., & Kuehl, R. “’Bet You Can’t Wait to Get Out’: Complicating Narratives of Leaving in Rural Young Adult Literature,” pp. 406-427.
  • Hadley, H. L., & Toliver, S. R., “The Monstrous Hospitality of Canonical Text Selections: The Need for a Hospitable Literacy Framework,” pp. 428-449.
  • LeBlance, R. J., & Stornaiuolo, A., “Reading Rhetorically: Discussing the Ethics of Narrative Form,” pp. 450-473.

Issue 55.3 (2023): Understanding Affect and Culture Within Pedagogical and Assessment Practices in Language and Literacy Education [Editorial]

  • Leyva, D. et al. “Literacy Measures that Leverage the Strengths of Spanish-Speaking Latino Kindergarteners,” pp. 250-274.
  • Robinson, B. “’You Will Perish’: A Case Study of Serendipitous Literacies and Novice Video Game Design,” pp. 275-301.
  • Delgalldo, E. “’I Try to Read to Them in Both Languages’: Bilingual Maestras’ Enactment and Embodiment of Critical Biliteracies through Bilanguaging Love,” pp. 302-324.
  • Smith, J. & Nichols, T. B., “Book Choice and the Affective Economy of Literacy,” pp. 325-345.
  • McCarthy, M. D., Domke, L. M., & Bian, Y. “Multilingual Implications for Reading Prosody Assessment,” pp. 346-353.

Katzir, Lindsay (2021).“Seeking Zion: Grace Aguilar’s Religious Nationalism,” Religion and the Arts 26 (2022) 61-88. Line Edit.

Florek, T. R., & Fanfoni, S. (2019). “Co-therapy: A Collaborative Odyssey.” Journey of Systemic Therapies (38)1, 17-29. Substantive edit.

Scholarly articles, book chapters & presentations

Katzir, Lindsay (2024). “‘Hate the wretched’: Orientalism and Otherness in Frankenstein,” in Critical Insights: Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia (Eds.). Salem Press. Substantive edit, 2023.

Edson, Hank (2023).“Shaikh Abu Sa’id ibn Abi’l-Khayr.” By Hank Edson. 17 pp. Draft scholarly article on Sufism. Developmental and line edit.

Franklin, Samuel Weil (2023). Chapter 1 in The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History. U of Chicago Press. Postdoctoral Researcher at Technische Universiteit Delft. The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands. Writing evaluation and coaching, 2021.

Malak, Karim [2023]. “Opening the Gate of Siyāsa: An Intellectual History of Rulercraft.” Draft scholarly article, 44pp. Muhammad Ali Foundation Fellow, Grey College, Durham, UK. Apr 2022 – Present. Line edit with coaching.

Ast, L., Fanfoni, S., Florek, J., Vinci, J., & Strickland, N. (Sept. 12, 2019). “Spouses of Incarcerated Inmates: Disenfranchised Grief and Stigmatized Trauma.”  EFTA Conf., Societa Italiana di Psicologia e Pscioterapia. Naples, Italy. Developmental and line edit.

Hittinger, Francis R. [2016]. “Le Muse son donne: Boccaccio’s Genealogia deorum gentilium and Pre-Vichian Poetics.” Draft, scholarly article. Line edit.

Books

Maddox, Tyesha. (2024). A Home Away From Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism and Caribbean American Identity.224 pp. University of Pennsylvania Press. Line edit with developmental comments, 2019.

Yoder, Dwight (2023). Properly Understood: If Citizens Are To Be Free. Coaching in humanities writing, 2020-2021.

Alexander, Oleg & Yeremeyeva, Marina (2022). Into the Unknown: The Oral History of Lyudmila Fuks. 280 pp. https://www.amazon.com/Into-Oral-History-Lyudmila-Fuks/dp/B0B5NZZ5C1/ref=kwrp_li_std_nodl. 2022. ESL developmental edit from Russian to English ms.; chapter organization & headings; line edit, fact check and glossary creation, 2020–2021.

Kupczak, Jaroslaw (2014). Gift and Communion: John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. Catholic University Press. Writing evaluation and line edit for ESL author.

Dissertations, etc.

Moon, Amanda (2023). An Assimilation Rebellion: Counter Narratives from Former Foster Youth College Graduates. Dissertation for Ph.D., College of Education, U of South Carolina. Developmental and line edit with final proof. 2022–2023.

Menon, Nandini (2022). Effective Professional Learning for Mainstream Teachers to Support English Language Learners’ Academic English Development. Dissertation for Education Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University. http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/684432023 Evaluation with line edits and video coaching.

Klein, Dennis, OP. (2022). “Introduction.” Thomas Aquinas on the Sacraments, Christ and the Church. Dissertation in progress. U of St. Mary. Phone coaching and line edit.

Johnson, Cybil (2020). Transformational Leadership Effects on Employee Engagement and Counterproductive Work Behavior’s Influence as a Moderating Variable. Psychology diss., Walden University. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/8924. Developmental and line edit of Chapters 4 and 5.

Alcenat, Westenley (2019).“Children of Africa, Shall Be Haytians”: Prince Saunders, Revolutionary Transnationalism and the Foundations of Black Emigration (1815-1865). Columbia University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2019. 13806049. 375 pp. Developmental and substantive edit with proofreading.

Maddox, Tyesha. [2019]. From Invisible to Immigrants: Political Activism and the Construction of Caribbean American Identity, 1890-1940. Dissertation (2016), Columbia University. 210 pp. Line edit conversion to book ms.

Hittinger, Francis R. (IV) (2016). Dante as Critic of Medieval Political Economy in Convivio and Monarchia. By Dissertation, Columbia University. academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8V40V7N. Writing Coach, 2015.

Blogs, etc.

Hittinger, Francis R. (IV) (March 17, 2024). “Safeguarding Democracy: Political Neutrality in Education – Lessons from Weber, Mill, and Russell.” Digitalphilology.com: Interdisciplinary ideas in the humanities, social sciences, and education. Line edit with headings.

Hittinger, Francis R. (IV) (February 15, 2024). “On Post-Academic Writing: A Humanist Reflects on Freedom from the Academic Habitus.” Digitalphilology.com. Line edit.

Moon, Amanda (2024). SPARK! Year 3: Annual Program Evaluation Report. Forthcoming. Developmental and line edit.

Moon, Amanda (2023). SPARK! Year 2: Annual Program Evaluation Report, 34 pp. https://issuu.com/scgsahoutreach/docs/spark_programevaluationreport_singlepg Developmental and line edit.

Hittinger, Francis R. (IV) (Oct. 18, 2018). “Announcing the Quintilian Society: A Paideia Institute Initiative for Humanities PhDs.” In Media Res. medium.com/in-medias-res/announcing -the- Line edit.

Giglio, Carla LMSW (October 2018). “Taming Your Inner Two-Year-Old: The Ego.” Together AZ (togetheraz.com/2018/12). Copyedit.

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