William Hornbostel

editor@scriptorium-editing.com

Employment History
Freelance Editor
June 2001 -
present 		Self-employed. Clients have included educational publishers and doctoral students. Services have included: copy editing; proofreading; stylistic, structural, and substantive editing; writing; research and fact-checking. Projects have included:
  • Writing scripts for educational DVDs and multimedia interactivities.
  • Copy editing doctoral dissertations.
  • Researching and editing literary sources for ancillary products.
  • Writing chapters for a high school world history textbook.
  • Crafting standardized test questions to suit state standards, and providing stimulus items on which questions were based.
  • Producing content for teacher resources on CD-ROM.
  • Creating tables, charts, and diagrams, for print and PowerPoint.
Contract Faculty
September 2003 -
April 2007 		York University, Toronto, ON. Course director and tutorial leader. Duties included: leading classroom discussions; marking assignments; tutoring students on course materials; preparing and delivering lectures (as course director). Courses:
  • Course Director: Atkinson/Humanities 1800, The Roots of Western Culture: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2004-5).
  • Tutorial Leader: Arts/History 2100, Ancient Greece and Rome (2006-7); Arts/Humanities 1100, Worlds of Ancient Greece and Rome (2005-6); Arts/Humanities 2105, Roman Literature and Culture (2003-4).
Editor
September 1999 -
May 2001 		Prentice Hall, Secondary Education, Social Studies, Upper Saddle River, NJ. Duties included: proofreading; stylistic, structural, and substantive editing; research; writing; producing content for electronic products. Achievements included:
  • Heading two work groups, including one for electronic products.
  • Devising user interface for eTeach, an online bulletin board for teachers; received the President’s Club 2000 Award for work on this project.
  • Conceived the plan for an educational simulation game.
Teacher
August 1998 -
June 1999 		Pulaski Academy, Little Rock, AR. Taught Latin to grades 8-11. Duties included: classroom exercises; marking assignments; tutoring students. Achievement:
  • Created benchmarks and standards for the Latin program.

Education
Master of Arts
Medieval Studies, 1998 		University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval Studies. Received a University of Toronto Open Scholarship.
Bachelor of Arts
History, 1995 		Bard College. Received the Marc Bloch Prize for the best senior thesis in the History Department, entitled, "The Concept of the Universal Empire in Rome and Byzantium."

Associations
Editors' Association of Canada
May 2007-Present 		American Philological Association
June 2007-Present

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