Who is TextFormations?
We both hold PhDs in the humanities from the University of California, Berkeley, so we understand the struggle scholars face in the contemporary academic publishing environment. We have published broadly in the fields of Renaissance and early modern studies. To TextFormations we bring decades of professional experience in editorial support, manuscript preparation, and project management.
Our clients rely on us for tailored and sophisticated editing, manuscript preparation, and author support services.
Lisa Regan. My PhD is from the University of California, Berkeley, in History of Art, with a specialization in early modern Italian art and literature. For nearly 20 years, I have been a developmental editor of academic texts. I help authors frame the themes and stakes of their work; create the written structures that undergird strong argumentation; and articulate complex ideas in the clearest way possible. I have worked with scholars on a broad spectrum of projects—primarily articles and book-length studies but also talks and professional materials—in a wide variety of subject areas ranging across the humanities and social sciences. I support authors at any and every phase of writing, from conceptualization through final stages of revision and submission. A key part of my role is thinking not only at the level of the text itself but also about all that helps an author have success with that text. This includes strategizing responses to reader reports, coordinating communication with editors and presses, and navigating professional and tenure considerations. Together, we storm the castle.
Amyrose McCue Gill. I hold a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, with specializations in Renaissance literature, early modern history, and women and gender studies. As a multilingual editor and translator, I support authors working on print and digital publishing projects in the humanities, arts, and education. My expertise as a line editor is directed at raising text of any form, whether scholarly research or professional materials, to its highest level of clarity and elegance. I am dedicated to deeply respecting and collaboratively refining the unique voice of each author. In that same vein, I provide lucid and nuanced translations that preserve tone while prioritizing meaning. As a detail-oriented and expert project manager, I help authors successfully wrangle complicated multilingual and/or multiauthor projects, including facilitating the preparation of professional materials and guiding manuscripts through copy editing and proofreading. I see the author–editor relation as a partnership: my role is to act not only as a keen set of eyes on text but also as an informed listener and firm support.
Our Work
Projects we have written, edited, translated, proofread, indexed, and managed appear in
- publications from, among others:
- Amsterdam University Press
- Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Ashgate Publishing
- Basic Books
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Brepols
- Brill
- Cambridge University Press
- Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Toronto)
- Cornell University Press
- De Gruyter
- Deutsch Harmonia Mundi
- Duke University Press
- Getty Research Institute
- Hackett
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Leo S. Olschki
- Lexington Books
- Manchester University Press
- Medieval Institute Publications
- MIT Press
- Northwestern University Press
- Oxford University Press
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Penn State University Press
- Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
- Princeton University Press
- Routledge
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Stanford University Press
- University of Chicago Press
- University of Delaware Press
- University of Michigan Press
- University of Nebraska Press
- University of North Carolina Press
- University of Notre Dame Press
- University of Texas Press
- University of Toronto Press
- Yale University Press
- peer-reviewed journals, including:
- 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
- Archive for Reformation History / Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte
- The Art Bulletin
- Art History
- Artibus et Historiae
- The Burlington Magazine
- California Italian Studies
- Colloquia Germanica
- Colonial Latin American Review
- Communication, Culture and Critique
- Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
- Journal of Educational Measurement
- Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art
- Journal of Latin American Communication Research
- Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture
- Law & Literature
- MLN (Modern Language Notes)
- New German Critique
- Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics
- Oxford Art Journal
- positions: asia critique
- Print Quarterly
- Quaderni d’Italianistica
- Recercare
- Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Representations
- RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
- Screen
- Seminar
- Theory, Culture & Society
- West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture
- Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
- Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung
- conferences worldwide, including:
- American Association for Italian Studies
- California Interdisciplinary Consortium of Italian Studies
- Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance
- College Art Association
- Modern Language Association
- Renaissance Society of America
- Sixteenth Century Society
- TEDx
I have consistently turned to Amyrose for help in managing everything from large-scale grant applications and journal special issues to the nuances of style guides, contracts, and policies. Throughout she has consistently demonstrated a solid understanding of the academy, a thoughtful and imaginative response to challenges, and an admirable ability to engage in collegial, clear, and succinct communications. I heartily recommend Amyrose and TextFormations.
—Professor William R. Bowen, Chair of the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Toronto Scarborough.