I translate, edit, proofread from Russian and Ukrainian to English, and can provide transcription as well.
I studied Ukrainian, Russian, Polish
literature and languages and received a doctoral degree in 2000 from the University of Illinois at Chicago and taught writing and English as a Second Language at the City Colleges of Chicago.
In 2020, I received a Certification in Copy Editing from the California San Diego Extension Program. I have also taken copy editing and proofreading courses through the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), and I'm a member of this organization.
Currently I am a freelance translator for RWS, Life Sciences; Palex Ltd, backdoor translation, and have worked for various other organizations and individuals.
I evaluate writing for two testing companies, Educational Testing Service and Pearson Testing.
I have done copy editing, proofreading and writing for the following companies and invididuals:
University of Illinois Press
Proofread: Through Words and Deeds: Polish and Polish American
Women in History (2021)
Apex CoVantage Prepress Division
edit: Tatiana Filosova, Da! A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar, 2nd Ed. (Routledge, 2020)
edit:
Yuliya Baldwin, English Loans in Contemporary Russian (Routledge, 2021)
Turan Duda
translate: dissertation, The Theme of the Caucasus in Russian Literature of the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries, Sadik Duda, (written in Russian) 1971, Vanderbilt
University, TN, 2020.
Hamid
Shaverdi
write
and edit: content for website of Beautiful Rugs, 2019–2020