Therí Alyce Pickens – Editor

I am the Charles A. Dana Professor of English & Africana at Bates College. I specialize in editing non-fiction and academic books.

Overview

I specialize in Arab American Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, and Disability Studies. I've written two academic books and one poetry collection. I've also edited three academic volumes. I bring decades of experience as a researcher, writer, and professor to my work. I provide detailed, reactive feedback in comments and a follow up letter to help clients make the most of their revisions. I am excited to work with academic and non-fiction authors.

Services

Developmental Editing

Editorial Assessment

Book Coaching

Non-Fiction

Biographies & Memoirs Health & Wellbeing History Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Writing & Publishing

Languages

English (US)

Work experience

Editor

Self-employed

Jan, 2021 — Present

I help authors sound more like themselves through developmental editing. I specialize in academic and non-fiction writing.

Charles A. Dana Professor of English & Africana

Bates College

Aug, 2011 — Present

I research and teach in the areas of Arab American Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, and Disability Studies. I am an internationally known scholar in all four fields because my own ground-breaking and field defining work in Comparative Ethnic Studies and Black Disability Studies. I have written two academic monographs: New Body Politics (Routledge, 2014), and Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke 2019). I have edited two special issues of scholarly journals: African American Review (2017) and College Language Association (2021). I have edited a scholarly collection: Arab American Aesthetics (Routledge 2018). I wrote a collection of poetry: What Had Happened Was (Duke 2015)