User:Betty.black

About Me
I am an ex-academic, ex-poet, graphic artist and web designer. I've got Jeopardy!-champion levels of random knowledge banging about inside my head, and come here to distill it off.

I've also been a professional copyeditor for years and years. I spent about 6 years as an editor of poetry (which is very hard, because poets get attached to their words and think they're immune from grammar!), and everyone I've edited loves me. Now (and over the past 8 years), I professionally edit scholarly and journalistic work.

Specialties
General Literature

General Philosophy

Political Philosophy

Just War Theory

Totalitarianism

20th Century History

History of Central Europe

Mass and Group Psychology

Ancient Religion and Mythology

Fairy Tales and Folklore

20th Century European Art

Neue Sachlichkeit

Film Noir

Horror Films, from most time periods and countries of origin

Hollywood Studio System

Public Relations and Marketing

Historical and Contemporary Fashion