Telephone: 413.863.5188
E-mail: d_weeks@sonic.net
WWW: http://www.sonic.net/~dweeks/work/
Industry-experienced editor and translator with wide-ranging interests in technology, science, and humanities. PhD in philology; world-class command of English grammar, spelling, and style. Reads numerous ancient and modern languages.
Proficient technical writer, familiar with computer applications, operating systems, and networking. Comfortable working with both engineers and managers; organizes and communicates complex material clearly to readers at all levels.
An editorial position in reference or general publishing, taking advantage of solid expertise in computing and networking technology.
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Senior Editor and research consultant, Houghton Mifflin Company (Reference Division)
Editorial contributor, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Copyeditor:
Documentation specialist for software companies in California
PC/Windows: (Windows 9x–Win7) — applications, system configuration, registry, MS Office macro programming
UNIX/Linux: (Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu) — administration, utilities, shell scripting, virtualization
Internet: communications, e-mail, ftp, telnet/ssh, VPN, networking and security
Software tools:
WP/DTP: | HTML/XML: | Windows Help: | DB/Spreadsheet: | Other: |
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MS Word | DreamWeaver | RoboHELP | SQLAnywhere | MSOutlook |
FrameMaker | HTMLKit | MS Help Workshop | MS Access | Evolution |
WordPerfect | Bluefish | WebWorks Publisher | Ace File | Pegasus Mail |
OpenOffice/LibreOffice | Notepad++ | Word2Web | MS Excel | Mutt |
Photoshop | Word-2-Help | MS Money | vi | |
Illustrator | GnuCash | Visual SourceSafe | ||
PaintShop Pro | PGP, GnuPG | |||
GIMP | Sun VirtualBox | |||
Pinta | ||||
Visio | ||||
Adobe Acrobat |
Copyeditor, Facing Crisis: Art as Politics in Fourteenth-Century Venice, by Stefania Gerevini. Dumbarton Oaks Studies, forthcoming.
Translator, Literary Politics in Antiquity: Studies in Cicero, Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming (translated from German).
Copyeditor, A Commentary on The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition, by Andy Orchard. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2021.
Copyeditor, The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity, by Jan M. Ziolkowski. 6 vols., OpenBook Publishers, 2018.
Translator, From the Steppes to the Sea: Indo-European and the “Indo-Europeans,” by André Martinet. In preparation (trans. from French).
“Communications: From Snail Mail to Email,” “Cyberspace: I Hear America Clicking,” “Transportation: Hitchin’ a Ride,” all in Speaking Freely, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Translator, Jung: A Biography, by Gerhard Wehr. Shambhala Press, 1987 (translated from German).
Translator of articles for the Encyclopedia of Religion. Macmillan Company, 1985–1986 (translations from French).
Editor (with Jaan Puhvel) and translator, The Plight of a Sorcerer, by Georges Dumézil. University of California Press, 1986 (translated from French).
Translator, The Stakes of the Warrior, by Georges Dumézil. University of California Press, 1983. (Translated from French, with passages from Old Norse, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.) Designed and executed dust-jacket art.
University of California, Los Angeles. PhD in Indo-European Studies. Dissertation: Hittite Vocabulary. Nominated for Junior Fellowship, Harvard University. Teaching assistant in sociology.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistic Anthropology and Sociology. Studies in sociology, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology; Old English, Old Norse.
Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass. Studies in linguistics and sociology.
Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass. Prize in Spanish.
Reading knowledge of French, Spanish, German. Working knowledge of Italian, Latin, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, Icelandic, Russian, and others.
Last modified 3 October 2023.