Ryan Mcdermott, Phd Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca

• Copyedit all client/agency writing (both creative and non-creative copy), focusing on grammar, punctuation, syntax, clarity, style, tone, voice, consistency, and adherence to client style guides• Collaborate with the Creative, Account Management, Communication Strategy, Brand Strategy, Research and Analytics, and new-business departments to edit presentations and proposals for client meetings • Assist the copywriters and creative directors with grammar and usage issues. Work directly with the copywriters to obtain clarification on queries and approval on major changes• Maintain client/agency style guides and track and monitor brand-specific graphic standards • Manage the daily operations of the department and the other members of the Copyediting team and act as the liaison between the full-time copyeditors, HR, and Account Management• Serve as the agency point person for general copyediting questions and for disseminating information from the Copyediting department to the agency as a whole• Field all requests for freelance-copyediting after-hours work and hire and schedule freelance copyediting help when needed• Mediate stylistic and grammatical disputes or inconsistencies among the copyeditors

San Francisco, Ca

As part of the Goodby Silverstein & Partners Ed. program (a digital-education program featuring a diverse range of speakers and workshops that deal with all things digital), I launched GS&P Writing Works, a series of lectures that aims to help folks assess and improve their writing skills. The seminars focus on the usual suspects—grammar, punctuation, syntax, etc.—and also offer practical guidelines on how to make one's writing more lucid, cogent, and streamlined.

San Francisco, Ca

• At Goodby Silverstein & Partners, concepted and wrote copy on a freelance basis for various clients, including Sprint, Nintendo, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Yahoo!, and Comcast, and created style guides for Yahoo! and Chevrolet• Currently writing on a freelance basis (for samples, please see the Accomplishments section below)

Edit research and strategy reports, brochures, and presentations for this social-advocacy research firm in Oakland

San Francisco, Ca

• Copyedited feature articles for “The Bold Italic,” an online magazine about all things San Francisco, including local arts, events, entertainment, and other lifestyle topics • Assisted the other members of the editorial team with cultivating and maintaining the publication's social media presence

San Francisco Bay Area

• Copyedited feature articles daily for this online magazine about all things San Francisco, including local arts, events, entertainment, and other lifestyle topics • Cultivated and maintained the publication's social media presence

San Francisco

Served as the copy chief for all sections of this award-winning print magazine, which features a wide range of world-famous authors and artists writing about technology, entertainment, design, media, and politics.

Copyedited dissertations and journal articles authored by nonnative-English-speaking scholars, ensuring that all language was not only flawless but also fully intelligible to an American audience.

Berkeley, Ca

• Winner of the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award• Researched and prepared curricula as the sole instructor for seven reading and composition courses• Created and held intensive writing and research workshops targeted at specific writing issues/challengesAssociateships (sole instrutor): Spring 2008—Cultures of EmotionFall 2007—Otherness (Department of Rhetoric)Spring 2007—Secrets and Sexuality in the Modern NovelFall 2006—Novel Experience: The Social Imaginary of Private ReadingSpring 2005—Consciousness and Feeling in NarrativeSummer 2004—The Haunted Page: Ghosts, Memories, and Specters of NarrationSpring 2004—Deviance, Desire, and Control in the Victorian NovelAssistantships: Spring 2003—Literature and Popular CultureSummer 2002—Victoria’s Secrets: The Unknown in the Nineteenth-Century NovelSpring 2001–2002—English Literature from 1770 to 1890

Berkeley, Ca

Copyedited and indexed Catherine Gallagher’s book "The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005); Kamilla Elliott's book "Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate" (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003); and Michael Bernstein's book "Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000).

University Of California, Berkeley

• Mentored the research projects of five undergraduate students in the program (a diversity research seminar at UCB), each from a different discipline in the humanities—art history, English, philosophy, history, and performance studies • Guided students on conceptualizing and planning a major research project for publication. Provided copious feedback on all drafts and met regularly to discuss research results and writing progress• Assisted students in editing résumés, cover letters, and statements of purpose for graduate-school applications

Cleveland, Oh

• Researched and wrote articles on a wide range of technical topics for the trade magazine "Foundry Management and Technology." Maintained and edited key sections of the magazine and worked frequently with authors, editors, and advertisers from multiple industries • Attended trade conferences and served as a spokesperson for the magazine at local industry events

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

Bachelor'S Degree, English Language And Literature/Letters

Bachelor'S Degree, English

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), English Language And Literature, General