• I offer Editing Consulting to authors, academics, attorneys, and students of various disciplines, who are writing dissertations for examination and/or materials for research and publication.• I also offer foreign language tutorials and translation (from French to English) of journalism, scholarly books for print and digital publication, and other writing for marketing purposes, company websites, and online publication.• I offer editing and college counseling services to applicants to undergraduate and graduate studies courses in the U.S., UK, and elsewhere, which require either a Common Application or the submission of a research proposal.• Past students have included students from China, Taiwan, the U.S., and elsewhere, who have either attended or applied to, and received offers from, B.A., MBA, M.A. and PhD programs at: USC, UCLA, Amherst College, Claremont McKenna, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Cambridge University, and MIT.

I. Academic Books:• Aesthetics, Values and Autobiography in the Works of Willa Cather and Marguerite Duras (Peter Lang, 2018). See: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1062417• France and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History, ed. Bill Marshall, Vol.3 (ABC-Clio, 2005); a collaborative encyclopedia series on Trans-Atlantic studies. (Contributed biographies of Willa Cather and Paul Auster to Volume 3.) See: https://www.abc-clio.com/products/a1465c/II. Journalism & Reviews:• 'Narrative Medicine and the Healing Nature of Art,' (Cultural Daily, 2016).• 'Myth, Memory and Transcendence in Hélène Cardona's Dreaming My Animal Selves,' (World Literature Today, March 25, 2015)'John M. Fitzgerald is Yeats Revisited: a necessary and soulful companion for the cosmopolitan' (Poetry International, 2014).III. Translations: • Algeria 2017 Investment Report, published by True Media and distributed with The Washington Post; a PDF of the full report is available for download, below.• Also available here: https://oxford.academia.edu/ErnaCooperIV. Fiction:• Airspeed Oxford: The Adventures of Joan Yu (2013); see: https://www.amazon.com/Airspeed-Oxford-adventures-Joan-Yu/dp/1480283630/• The Venice Apartment and Other Stories (2006); see: https://www.amazon.com/Venice-Apartment-Other-Stories/dp/141207990XV. Speech Writing & Awards:• Rex Warner Literary Prize, Wadham College, Oxford ('Proxime Accessit'), June 1996• Student Speaker, UCLA Humanities Commencement Ceremonies, June 1995

Role:• Editing Consultant and Independent Contractor to UN Women.Duties:• Editing, revising, rewriting and formatting, as needed, to produce high-quality, reader-friendly, accessible, timely, results-based corporate communications materials, including, but not limited to, stories, speeches, key messages published on regional UN websites, and other documents aligned with UN Women’s established standards and formats (see "Publications" list, below).• Drafting speech and communications briefs, as needed.• Report writing and editing based on the corporate and programme needs.• Links to UN website publications are provided below.

• Legal Assistant to Managing Partner, a specialist in administrative law and appeals, security clearance matters, and whistleblower protection for Federal employees (including law enforcement) across the United States.• Duties: Wrote occasional replies to removal actions, drafted and proofed correspondence regarding various employment defense actions.• Filed pleadings with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), as well as other court documents.• Maintained correspondence, discovery, pleadings, and other files for 6 attorneys.• Handled case management: opened/closed files, drafted and sent status updates to insurance companies for non-private-paying clients.• Maintained busy calendar for all 6 attorneys.• Processed retainers and invoice payments for private-paying clients.• Submitted budgets and case analyses to insurance companies, Markel Underwriters and North American Risk Services, Inc., for all insured clients, to determine coverage eligibility.

• Worked for: MBA Student & Academic Services. • Public Speaker at MBA Degree Ceremonies.• Reference attached.

• Checked legal citations, some content, formatting, syntax, grammar, and punctuation according to The Chicago Manual of Style and MCLE’s in-house style; legal references followed The Blue Book citation guidelines.• Completed Works: Immigration Practice Manual, 2019 Supplement; Appellate Practice in Massachusetts, 2020 Supplement; Real Estate Title Practice in Massachusetts; Health and Hospital Law in Massachusetts, 2020 Supplement; and other titles on various practice areas, for print and digital publication.• Reference attached for further details.

• Assistant to Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Professor Erin I. Kelly (a fixed-term position).• Wrote letters, on behalf of Chair, nominating candidates for Phi Beta Kappa and Special Scholarships; and conducted various administrative tasks.• All but one of our candidates submitted for scholarships received substantial awards.• Copyedited Prof. Kelly’s book, The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility (2018), published by Harvard University Press.

• On-site Tutor of English, Expository Writing, and Creative Writing (including plays, screenplays, film treatments, and prose).• On-site Tutor of French language and literature.• On-site College Counselor (specialized in preparing transfer and graduate studies applicants).• Taught college students attending or applying to: Amherst College, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Claremont McKenna, and Beijing Film Academy's Producer Program.• Writing specialties: expository writing/criticism, the personal essay, creative writing, and the preparation of graduate studies’ research proposals.• Academic subjects: English and French Literature (including American literature, British Literature, and French fiction and poetry).• See: https://www.collegelaunch.com/

• Volunteer Lecturer in English for the Oxford Access Scheme Summer School, designed to encourage application from students at inner-city schools to Oxford's English Studies programme.• Subjects taught: Introduction to Shakespeare (the History Plays); and Literary Theory (including psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and French postmodernist literature).• Duties assumed while graduate student, specializing in twentieth-century English and French literature and film.

Trained in-house as a legal proofreader while on a work-study program at UCLA.