Els Woudstra, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

• Supervised team of 6 copyeditors by supporting and quality-checking the production of 6-8 copy-edited and fact-checked academic articles each quarter.
• Developed remote workflow, digital infrastructure, and training materials to facilitate transition to remote work for entire organization of 12 people in March 2020.
• Spearheaded revision of internal policy and procedure documents and developed instruction manual for copyeditors, expected to improve copyeditor speed and accuracy.

Houston, Texas

• Developed interpretative framework explaining how the rise of synthetic chemistry in the early twentieth century shaped modern understandings of smell and taste.
• Wrote a book-length report based on analysis and interpretation of 400+ historical, literary, and medical sources.
• Presented research findings at national and international conferences and public lectures to medical professionals.

Houston, Texas, United States

Provided up to 110 hours of academic coaching to 22 freshman students to improve their writing skills through drafting, reading comprehension, research, and revision exercises.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Served as representative for 240+ Humanities graduate students in liaisons with Humanities departments and campus student organizations.
• Co-sponsored successful negotiation of 23.8% ($5,000) permanent stipend increase for entire student body.

Utrecht, Netherlands

• Launched first generalist journal for Humanities graduate students in the Netherlands and successfully produced its first issue within 4 months of founding.
• Secured €15,157.48 ($16,643.6) in grants to finance startup costs and 3 years of operation costs (2016-2019).
• Recruited and directed 8-person editorial team of graduate students by developing lasting organizational structure (still in use as of 2021).

Representative of RMa Gender and Ethnicity and GEMMA Erasmus Mundus program in the Curriculum Committee of RMA's in the Deparment of Media and Culture Studies.

Utrecht

Student assistant to the coordinators of the Graduate Gender Programme, assisting to the innovation of the Master's programme. Tasks included rewriting the programme information book, creating brochures and website texts for the programme, updating the course curriculum, and managing the new student applications.

Utrecht University

Member of the organizing committee of the first one-day graduate student conference of the Humanities Department of Utrecht University. Responsibilities included chairing the general sessions of the conference, contact person for session chairs, logistic manager of the conference.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, English Language And Literature/Letters

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Gender And Ethnicity

Activities and Societies: Curriculum Committee, AskAnnabel (Student Association Gender Studies), Conference Committee First Humanities.

Bachelor, Liberal Arts And Sciences, American Studies

Activities and Societies: Honours Program Double major in American Studies and Postcolonial and Gender Studies. Humanities College Honors.

Exchange Student, American Culture Studies And Sexuality, Women And Gender Studies

Activities and Societies: Community Organized for Rape Education (CORE), Washington University Political Review,

Gymnasium (High School), Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Latin, History, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Choir in School Musical, Honours Program, Poetry Club Choir in School Musical, 2003-2004. Honours Program.