Fabian Ironside Email & Phone Number

Didcot, England, United Kingdom

Cataloguing and profiling books and ebooks for global supplier to academic libraries. Describing intellectual content and physical details of vast range of books from predominantly academic presses.

Berkshire, Uk

Berkshire, U.K.

Editorial quality control: close, critical monitoring of texts and audiobooks.Audiobook quality control for 2018 Grammy Award winner THE PRINCESS DIARIST by Carrie Fisher.Clients include Penguin, Hachette, HarperCollins, Library of America.Delivering exact and faithful audio editions of difficult literary texts, ensuring that the audio tallies with the text and that pronunciations are correct. Projects include literary and popular fiction, history, culinary, biography, business, science, children’s and YA titles. Authors include Thomas Pynchon (GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, INHERENT VICE), David Foster Wallace (INFINITE JEST, THE PALE KING,) Andrew Ross Sorkin (TOO BIG TO FAIL), Nick Hornby and Zadie Smith. Abridgment of business texts for audiobook publication.Copy-editing and proofing.

Abingdon, Oxon., Uk

Data clerk specializing in examination attendance registers for educational bodies. Thorough use of Excel 2013, Sharepoint, Outlook, Skype, setting up meetings, answering phones.

New York City

Editorial freelancer. Assignments included adapting books for abridged editions and quality control editing of audiobooks.

New York City

Volume editor of two books in the Chelsea House “Bloom’s Classic Critical Views” series, on Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007) and Mark Twain (2008).Author of Bloom’s HOW TO WRITE ABOUT RALPH WALDO EMERSON (Chelsea House, 2009), a study of Emerson’s essays intended for college students.

New York City

Data validation for a prominent educational publisher, providing exhaustive taxonomic analyses of back catalogue title and identified keywords for digital searches.Researching and writing articles for improvements in their database and taxonomy.Developing and executing educational materials for teachers and administrators. Attending meetings to pool research findings and direct strategy.

Norwich, United Kingdom

Tasks and responsibilities included:Writing and delivering lectures to packed theatres of students.Organising and teaching successful seminars to groups of between eight and twenty students.Designing new courses and modifying existing ones; creatively devising reading lists, setting questions for essays and exams, marking essays and exams, maintaining office hours for mentoring students.Teaching and preparing three classes on different subjects in any one week, maintaining a high standard and meeting strict deadlines.Providing close and attentive communication with students, secretaries and staff on academic and administrative matters. Coordinating with departmental colleagues.Courses included:“Imagining America” (freshman survey course) “Introduction to American Studies” (freshman survey course; two years, redesigned)“The American 1960s” (freshman course)“The American Self” (freshman course)"Contemporary American Fiction: 1940–1970” (senior course)“Early Twentieth–Century American Fiction” (senior course)“Contemporary American Fiction: 1970–The Present” (senior course)“American Gothic” (senior course) “The Beats and the Limits of Writing” (senior course)Lectures: “American Utopianism” (Introduction to American Studies) “The Commonplace as Absurd: John Cheever and Bernard Malamud” “The Old Weird America: American Exceptionalism” (reprised 2005)

London, United Kingdom

Records department clerk at the Middlesex Hospital;Wine deliveries for Oddbins, Charlotte Street;Bookseller at Unsworth’s, Bloomsbury Street;Bookseller at Books Etc., Holborn;Bookseller at Waterstone’s, Imperial College, Kensington and Goldsmiths College, New Cross Gate;Bookseller at Pipeline Books, docklands.

Jordan Valley, Israel.

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London, United Kingdom

Tasks and responsibilities included:Management of a large department and its staff in a world-famous bookshop.Ordering stock, overseeing returns, improving sales and title selection substantially. Easy interaction with the public and workers at all levels in the publishing industry, including authors, sales representatives, distributors and publishers.Arranging promotions, publicity, displays and signing events within the department.

Reading, United Kingdom

Administrative clerk at the records department of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, locating vital files on a tight deadline for doctor’s clinics, fielding telephone inquiries, xeroxing notes, fielding inquiries.

Phd, American Studies

Thesis: “Literary Barnumism: Subversive Humour in P.T. Barnum’s America” Supervisors: Eric Homberger and Clive Scott Examiners: Peter.

Bachelor’S Degree, English And American Literature With Comparative Literary Studies, Double First

Activities and Societies: Columnist and reviewer for KRED, the student newspaper. Poetry published in literary journal. Deejay, writer.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Comparative Literary Studies And English With American Literature, First

Activities and Societies: UKC Radio KRED