Vita

I’ve worked as a copy editor, production editor, and publishing editor in the fields of clinical medicine and biomedicine for the last 24 years for Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, now a part of Springer Nature. I ran my own translating office previous to that, translating scholarly and scientific texts from German to English in sociology, philosophy, law, medicine, art history, and other fields. I hold degrees in philosophy (B.A.) and sociology (M.A.), earned at the New School for Social Research in New York. I have also studied in Portland (Reed College), Bochum (Ruhr Universität), Berlin (Freie Universität), and Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität). The combination of studies in the human sciences, publishing experience in clinical and biomedicine, and translating and copyediting experience in both human and biomedical sciences gives me a unique skill set for approaching texts in German or English.

I grew up in Clifton, NJ, just down the hill from Montclair State College, where I attended high school, at its “College High School.” This was followed by two years on the dean’s list at Reed College in Portland, Ore., and several years of studies in Germany (FU in Berlin, Ruhr U. in Bochum). I then returned to the New York area, earning my M.A. in sociology at the New School for Social Research. After being offered a research position in Heidelberg, I moved back to Germany, where I studied sociology in the Ph.D. program and cut my teeth as a translator, translating two major works by Wolfgang Schluchter on Max Weber’s sociological theory. After running my own translating business for several years, I joined Springer-Verlag (which became part of Springer Nature in 2015) as described above.