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Akiko Yamagata, Owner & Editor
Background
With my broad intellectual interests and academic training (MA, Harvard, East Asian studies; BA Williams College, political science and sociology), I edit manuscripts for academic presses and journals as well as for individual scholars who want to publish with those presses and journals. I also edit for museums, government agencies, and research institutes in the US, Japan, and beyond.
My particular areas of expertise are anthropology, art history, East Asian studies, Japanese studies (especially premodern), history, literary studies, museum studies, religion, and sociology—but I also edit well beyond those fields, across the humanities and qualitative social sciences.
I read and translate classical and modern Japanese and edit translations from both. With my multilingual background (I also speak and read French), I am adept at editing the writing of EFL authors.
As an instructor in the UCSD Copyediting Program, I pass on my knowledge to the next generation of copyeditors.
For more information about my background and work, please see my resume and portfolio.