Carol Dana Lanham

My résumé divides, somewhat awkwardly, into two overlapping parts. Part I includes, in addition to my academic profile, my general employment history. Part II, Editorial Training and Experience, lists my formal training related to publishing, catalogs my work as monographs editor at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and summarizes the kinds of freelance work I’ve done since leaving the Center in 1988.



I. Academic

Education

1973 Ph.D. in Classics, UCLA (special field: Medieval Latin)
1968 M.A. in Classics, UCLA
1963–65 Dartmouth College, Classics (part-time)
1957 A.B., Connecticut College, cum laude (History major; Phi Beta Kappa)

Employment

Academic
1989–90, 1991 Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (Latin grammar and medieval Latin readings, for professional staff members)
1978 Lecturer in Medieval Latin, NEH Summer Institute in the Basic Disciplines for Medieval Studies (held at UCLA)
1976–77 Marymount High School, Los Angeles (part-time)
1975–77 Lecturer in Summer Session, UCLA
1973–74 Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Brown University
1969, 1971–72 Teaching Assistant and Associate, UCLA Department of Classics

Nonacademic
1988– Self-employed: Rhetorica, Inc.
1975–88 Senior Editor (1978–84) and Principal Editor (1984–87), UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (50% time)
1957–65 Secretary: National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council; Yale University; Dartmouth College

Publications

In press: Editor, Latin Grammar and Rhetoric: From Classical Theory to Medieval Practice (London: Continuum Books, 2002)
Editor and contributor, Wordly Wise: A Guide to Resources for Editors, Writers, Researchers, and Graphic Designers (Los Angeles 1987)
Salutatio Formulas in Latin Letters to 1200: Syntax, Style, and Theory, Münchener Beiträge zur Mediävistik und Renaissance-Forschung 22 (Munich 1975)

“Writing Instruction in the Early Middle Ages,” invited contribution to 2nd ed. of A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to Modern America, ed. James J. Murphy (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001) 79-121
“Weeds in the Garden of Eloquence: The Proliferation of Rhetorical Figures,” in Design and Production in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Nancy van Deusen (Institute of Mediaeval Music [Ottawa], 1998) 133–148
“Salutatio,” in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition, ed. Theresa Enos (Garland, 1995)
“Freshman Composition in the Early Middle Ages: Epistolography and Rhetoric before the ars dictaminis,” Viator 23 (1992) 115–134
“Help on the Path to Word Processing,” Scholarly Publishing 15 (1983) 82–90
“More on Teaching Medieval Latin,” Classical Journal 75 (1980) 335–339
“Formulaic Parallels and Epistolary Style” (part 2 of an article written jointly with Bengt Löfstedt under the title “Zu den neugefundenen Salzburger Formelbüchern und Briefen,” Eranos 63 (1975) 69–100 at 83ff.
“The Bastard at the Family Reunion: Classics and Medieval Latin,” Classical Journal 70 (1975) 46–59
“Enjambement in the Annales of Ennius,” Mnemosyne 23 (1970) 179–187

In press: Review of Bengt Löfstedt, Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur lateinischen Sprachgeschichte und Philologie, ed. Walter Berschin, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 37/1 (2002)
Review of Veiko Väänänen, Introduction au latin vulgaire, 3rd ed., Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 83 (1982) 475–478
Review of Pierre Riché, Education and Culture in the Barbarian West, Sixth through Eighth Centuries, trans. John J. Contreni, Journal of Library History 13 (1978) 72–74

“Alberic of Monte Cassino,” in Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, ed. Christopher Kleinhenz and Giuseppe Mazzotta (Garland, forthcoming, 2002?)


Papers Delivered

“Using Medieval Latin: A Toolbox of Resources” (Medieval Association of the Pacific, 4/89; Ohio State University, 2/90; Texas Classical Association, 11/94; Duke University, 3/95; Tulane University, 11/95)
“The Proliferation of Rhetorical Figures: Weeds in the Garden of Eloquence” (Claremont Graduate School/Scripps College, 10/93)
“Weeding in the Garden of Eloquence: Notes on Rhetorical Figures, the Transmission of Classical Texts, and the Nature of Humanistic Research” (St. John’s University [Minnesota], 5/93)
“Freshman Composition in the Early Middle Ages: The Theory and Practice of Letter-Writing before the ars dictaminis” (University of Rochester, 11/88; University of Akron, University of Toledo, 2/89)
“The Use of the progymnasmata in Teaching Letter-Writing before the ars dictaminis” (Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, 5/88)
“How grammatica Took Over the Teaching of Rhetoric” (Medieval Academy, 4/88)
“A Five-Part Scheme of genera dicendi in Some Grammars and Commentaries on Donatus” (American Philological Association, 12/87; California State University, Northridge, 2/88)
“Ars dictaminis: Alberic of Monte Cassino's Dictaminum radii” (American Philological Association, 12/82)
“Latin Epistolography before the ars dictaminis” (Medieval Academy/Medieval Association of the Pacific, 3/80)
“Prostrate at Your Feet: Toward a History of Latin Epistolography” (Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 4/79)


Professional Activities

Organized session, “Grammar and Rhetoric: Classical Theory and Medieval Practice,” Medieval Latin Studies Group, American Philological Association, 12/97
Presider, Session on “The Literary Culture of Southern Italy, 10th to 12th Century,” Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, 5/93
Commentator, Session on “Medieval Latin in the Classics Curriculum,” American Philological Association, 12/92
Session Chair, “Schools and High Culture in Eleventh-Century Italy and France,” American Historical Association, 12/89
Organized session, “Research Tools and Methods: A Workshop,” Medieval Association of the Pacific, 4/89


Professional Memberships

American Philological Association
Medieval Academy of America
Medieval Association of the Pacific (Council member, 1985–87)
Medieval Latin Association of North America
UCLA Campus Editors and Writers

 

II. Editorial Training and Experience

My specialties are stylistic and substantive editing of scholarly books and journals in the humanities; reference-checking and bibliographies; complex proofreading (including specs and layout); and simple book design. Competence in Latin, French, Italian, German, and Greek.

I noted in my biographical sketch that I learned most of what I know about editing on the job, while employed as monographs editor at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies <http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmrs>. The first section below records the titles I handled at the Center and the tasks I performed on each; I comment on some of those tasks and titles in What Does an Editor Do? The second section below details my modest formal training in the field of publishing.

Since leaving UCLA in 1988 I have freelanced. My assignments have included:

  • working with authors to prepare manuscripts for submission to a press, on such subjects as art history, WWII memoirs, intellectual history, and cooking; and with a Ph.D. candidate preparing a dissertation
  • copyediting and reading final proofs of Jobs and Capital, a quarterly, semipopular economics magazine published by the Milken Institute (ceased publication, 1998); similar work on other Milken Institute publications
  • copyediting and reading final proofs of a semiannual newsletter for the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture
  • working with an author to prepare a second edition of a scholarly book
  • editing reports, brochures, and project-funding proposals
  • proofreading annual reports for a major entertainment conglomerate
  • preparing camera-ready copy of a collection of essays


Editorial Experience at UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

This list seems the best way to convey the variety of both subject matter and tasks that I dealt with while employed as monographs editor at the Center. (Medievalists tended to associate me with Viator, the Center’s distinguished annual journal, with which I had absolutely nothing to do.)

Published for the Center by the University of California Press:
1. Medieval Allegories of Jesus' Parables, by Stephen L. Wailes (x + 270 pp., 1987) [supervised copyediting, designed book, coded for typesetting, oversaw production through typesetting]
2. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in California Libraries, vol. 1: The Claremont Libraries, by C. W. Dutschke and R. H. Rouse (xxii + 146 pp., 43 illus., 1987) [consulted with Press and authors on design and format for catalogue entries, supervised copyediting, oversaw production through typesetting]
3. Italian Cardinals, Reform, and the Church as Property, 1492–1563, by Barbara McClung Hallman (xii + 232 pp., 1985) [copyedited MS]
4. Rupert of Deutz, by John Van Engen (xx + 397 pp., 1983) [copyedited MS]
5. Medieval Religion and Technology: Collected Essays, by Lynn White, jr. (xxiv + 428 pp., 1978) [all previously published; I corrected errors and coordinated internal cross-references]
6. Pope Alexander and the Council of Tours (1163), by Robert Somerville (xii + 110 pp., 1977) [copyedited MS, checked references, oversaw production through typesetting, read proof]
7. An Italian Lordship: The Bishopric of Lucca in the Late Middle Ages, by Duane J. Osheim (211 pp., 1977) [copyedited MS, checked references, oversaw production through typesetting, read proof]
8. Marius, “On the Elements”: A Critical Edition and Translation, by Richard C. Dales (206 pp., 1976) [checked the transcription of the original 13th-century Latin manuscript from microfilm, and the accuracy and style of the English translation]
9. First Images of America: The Impact of the New World on the Old, edited by Fredi Chiappelli with M. J. B. Allen and R. L. Benson (2 vols., 957 pp., 128 illus., 1976) [checked references, read proof]
 
“Humana Civilitas,” a monograph series published for the Center by Peter Lang Publishing (no. 10) or Undena Publications (nos. 11–16):
10.  Naked before the Father: The Renunciation of Francis of Assisi, by Richard C. Trexler (xiii + 129 pp., 32 illus., 1989) [copyedited MS, designed book]
11. The Discourse of “Il Principe,” by Michael McCanles (xxii + 142 pp., 1983) [copyedited MS, designed book, oversaw production through typesetting]
12. Ovid's “Metamorphoses”: An Index to the 1632 Commentary of George Sandys, by Christopher Grose (xiv + 152 pp., 1981) [supervised copyediting, oversaw production through typesetting]
13. Tenth-Century Latinity: Rather of Verona, by Peter L. D. Reid (xiii + 158 pp., 1981) [copyedited MS, checked references, designed book, oversaw production through typesetting, read proof]
14. Rhetoric and Poetic in Thomas More's “Utopia,” by Arthur F. Kinney (36 pp., 1979) [copyedited MS, checked references, designed book, oversaw production through typesetting, read proof]
15. Persian Medical Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles: A Descriptive Catalogue, by Lutz Richter-Bernburg (xxiv + 297 pp., 1979) [copyedited MS, designed book, oversaw production through typesetting]
16. The Politics of an Erasmian Lawyer, Vasco de Quiroga, by Ross Dealy (33 pp., 1976) [copyedited MS, checked references, oversaw production through typesetting]
 
Published by other presses, by individual arrangements with the Center:
17. Germania: Comparative Studies in the Old Germanic Languages and Literatures, edited by Daniel G. Calder and T. Craig Christy (x + 210 pp.; D. S. Brewer, 1988) [supervised copyediting, designed book, oversaw production through typesetting; supervised the keyboarding of some 90 computer typesetting codes]
18. The Fairest Flower: The Emergence of Linguistic National Consciousness in Renaissance Europe [no editor] (208 pp.; Accademia della Crusca, 1985) [copyedited MS]
19. From Symbol to Mimesis: The Generation of Walther von der Vogelweide, edited by Franz Bäuml (232 pp.; Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 1984) [planned and supervised the preparation of camera-ready copy on a CPT dedicated word-processor]
20. Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century, edited by R. L. Benson and Giles Constable, with C. D. Lanham (xxx + 781 pp., 110 illus.; Harvard University Press, 1982) [copyedited MS, supervised reference-checking, designed book, oversaw production through typesetting, read proof]
21. The Dawn of Modern Banking [no editor] (321 pp.; Yale University Press, 1979) [copyedited MS, checked references]
 

Relevant Training
From Desktop to Page: Choosing the Right Options for Setting Type with Computers
  (2-day seminar sponsored by Society for Scholarly Publishing, Boston, 8/87)
Communication Skills
  (UCLA in-service training: 14 hours, 3/86)
Pubtronics ‘85 (“What Do You Do When an Author Hands You a Floppy Disk and Calls It a Manuscript?”)
  (2-day seminar sponsored by National Composition Association, San Diego, 11/85)
Photo Research
  (UCLA Extension: 6 hours, 4/85)
Book Design
  (UCLA Extension: 36 hours, Spring 1984)
Math Proficiency
  (UCLA in-service training: 15 hours, 11/83)
Supervisory Principles Laboratory
  (UCLA in-service training: 21 hours, 11/83)
Computers and Computer Systems for Noncomputer People
  (UCLA Extension: 36 hours, Fall 1983)
Stanford Publishing Course
  (intensive overview of publishing, for persons already working in the field: June 20–July 1, 1983)
Electronic Page Makeup
  (UCLA Extension: 4 hours, 5/83)
The Electronic Publisher: Applications and Implications for Editorial, Marketing, and Production
  (Association of American Publishers/West, 1-day seminar, San Francisco, 5/83)
Copyrights and Publication Agreements
  (UCLA in-service training: 3 hours, 3/82)
Lettering and Layout
  (UCLA Extension: 36 hours, Spring 1979)
The Planning and Preparation of Print Communication
  (UCLA in-service training: 10 hours, Spring 1977)