Editors Café


Keen to gain fresh perspectives on editing texts in the humanities and social sciences and update your editor’s toolbox? Join us for our first in-person salon-style chat.

Helping us explore the editing process will be two skilled authors’ editors, Kelsey Brunasso and Maria Sherwood-Smith, who’ll join moderator Maria Fernandez to discuss what they would do if an author approached them with the task of editing a text for submission to an international journal.

The text in question is an article in medieval art history. For our Editors Café, we’ve asked Kelsey and Maria to show us how they’d help the author elevate the introduction and two additional sections, based on the material in the paper as a whole.

Besides undertaking linguistic, substantive and didactic editing, Kelsey and Maria will comment on how they’d query unclear content, how they’d teach the author about good writing through their interventions and how they’d elicit revisions by encouraging the author to reconsider areas that need work.

Where will our editors find common ground? How will their approaches differ? Join us to find out! Audience participation is strongly encouraged – download the text to follow along on the day or try your own hand before the meeting.

Our editors

Kelsey Brunasso is a Turin-based freelance academic and museum editor specializing in the humanities and social sciences, especially archaeology, history and art history.

Maria Sherwood-Smith lectures in academic English at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University, the Netherlands, where she gives writing and presenting courses for early-career researchers.

Our host

Maria Fernandez is a translator and editor working with English and Spanish, mainly in the history and art history fields. She has a BA in linguistics from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and has worked with texts in different capacities for over 40 years.