Ben Pritchett

Academic background:

• First class degree in English language and literature from the University of Oxford
• Distinction-level master’s in criticism and culture from Cambridge
• PhD in history of art from the Open University

I trained with the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), which became the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) in March 2020. I am an advanced professional member of the institute.

The levels of editing that I can undertake range from an initial manuscript review, through developmental and line editing, to proofreading. That is to say, I can provide analytic feedback on high-level conceptual and structural points, and also help to refine details of style, grammar, and vocabulary.

Normally I use Word for copy-editing, and Acrobat for proofreading, but I am open to discussion if you prefer a different system.

My experience includes editing scholarly texts: postgraduate student papers, journal articles, and a book. I have also worked in-house as a dictionary assistant at Oxford University Press, and as a freelance copyeditor for Taschen.

I have worked for an author with dyslexia, and others with English as their second language. I also have experience of teaching English for Academic Purposes.

I am British and I have never lived in the USA; as such, while I can edit for US spelling, I may not catch all the specific nuances of American English. On the other hand, I should be very competent at localizing from US into British English.

Although I mainly work on non-fiction, I would also be happy to consider fiction (including film and theatre scripts) and poetry, since I have studied and analyzed many classics in depth.

Academic specialisms:

• Art and technoscience
• Art in political and economic context
• British constructivist art between 1956 and 1978
• Cultural criticism
• Critical cultural theory
• Marxism
• Modern English literature
• Modern, postmodern, and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries
• Raymond Williams and the New Left

Topics of personal interest:

• Animal rights, ecology, environmentalism, vegetarianism, and veganism
• Architecture and urbanism
• Cinema/film, particularly documentary, artists’, and experimental (I also occasionally freelance as a filmmaker)
• Feminism, gender, and sexuality
• Philosophy
• Postcolonialism
• Post-structuralism
• Psychoanalysis

I am quite happy to consider other subjects too; for example I have edited a PhD thesis on international relations and monetary systems.

Bristol,
GB

Email: contact@benpritchett.co.uk

http://benpritchett.co.uk

Years in the field: 8
Years freelancing: 8