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Tess Rankin

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I specialize in copyediting, line editing, and Spanish-to-English translation. I have worked with many multilingual clients on polishing their English texts. I edit all kinds of writing including academic and nonacademic articles, book chapters, job application materials, abstracts, and museum and gallery texts. I can edit or proofread your writing in accordance with various style guides, including MLA and Chicago, and I can follow the guidelines of your publisher or journal. I welcome projects of any size and have worked on texts on a wide range of topics in fields ranging from literary studies and cultural studies to Latin American and Iberian studies, media studies, and more.

I have a PhD in Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Literatures from New York University, and I received my BA in Comparative Literature at Columbia University where I studied Spanish and Turkish. I served as Managing Editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies from 2018 to 2022. My monograph, Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women's Fiction: Gender and the Scientific Imaginary (2024), is available with open access from Liverpool University Press. While I am based in New York, I can work with you on projects wherever you may be.

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Translator/Editor

  • Academic Editing
  • Copyediting
  • Developmental and Substantive Editing
  • ESL and Translation Editing
  • Formatting
  • Line editing
  • Project management
  • Proofreading
  • Translation

  • Acrobat
  • Excel
  • Google Docs
  • Google Forms
  • Google Sheets
  • InCopy
  • PowerPoint
  • Word

Expert (50+ projects)

10

10

  • Anthropology
  • Arts, Performing
  • Arts, Visual
  • Cultural Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Film/TV
  • Interdisciplinary Studies
  • International affairs
  • LGBT+
  • Multicultural Interest
  • Philosophy
  • Women’s Studies

  • Cultural Studies
  • Humanities
  • Interdisciplinary Studies

Academic materials, Book proposals, Essays, Reviews, Textbooks

  • Academic

No

  • Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS)
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)

  • English
  • Spanish

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