I specialize in academic editing and translation in the areas of social science and humanities that relate to language, cognition and learning both within and across individuals and within and across societies and cultures. Within that, I work in:

• Linguistics and all its subfields, including psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, first and second language acquisition, cognitive and functional approaches to syntax and linguistic theory, and linguistic description
• Language and cognitive disorders and testing
• Cognitive psychology
• Cognitive science
• Second language instruction and learning; computer-mediated instruction
• Theories and scholarship of teaching and learning, teacher training

And because my education and experience ranges from the more qualitative and narrative end of the spectrum and to the more quantitative and experimental end, I also work in the fields of:

• Anthropology
• Literature
• Peace, conflict and justice studies; international relations
• Industrial organization, management and behavior
• Applied engineering

I also help academics write by running structured writing retreats and teaching academic and scientific writing seminars.

Education

• MA in Linguistics, University at Buffalo (2001). Primary specialization in psycholinguistics; secondary specializations in discourse analysis, syntax and cognitive science. As a PhD candidate (ABD), I worked in a psycholinguistics laboratory doing experimental work on human sentence processing.
• MA in Linguistics, California State University Long Beach (1994). Primary specialization in psycholinguistics and discourse analysis; secondary specializations in cognitive psychology and child language acquisition.
• BA in Linguistics, University of California San Diego (1989). Major in Linguistics, minor in Spanish language and literature.