1. Mike Heffley – Copyediting, Proofreading, Peer Reviewing
website * email * voice mail: (503) 895-7583
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I offer copyediting, proofreading, and (select) peer-reviewing services to prepare
academic manuscripts for publication.
I am a much-published and critically acclaimed author of academic monographs
(Greenwood Press, Yale University Press), anthology chapters (Oxford
University Press, Duke University Press, Northeastern University Press, Artes
Publishing, Stride Publishing, Volke Verlag), and peer-reviewed journal papers
(Grove Dictionary of American Music, Journal of Folklore Research, Journal of the
American Musicological Society, Journal of the Society for American Music,
Columbia University’s Jazz Studies Online, Chamber Music, Inside Arts, Signal to
Noise, International Society for Improvised Music newsletter). In most of these
projects I did the bulk of my own editing and proofreading to specs.
I have also contracted with several academic presses and authors to give peer
reviews in my field of music studies (University of Chicago Press) and to edit,
proofread, and format to style guide specs (Chicago and APA, for University of
Michigan Press, Oxford University Press, and Routledge).
Current references for such work (on request):
 Cecilia Miller (Wesleyan University history professor, copyedited/proofread her
monograph in press at Routledge, Enlightenment and Political Fiction: The
Everyday Intellectual)
 Su Zheng (Wesleyan University music professor, edited for
idiomatic/grammatical English most of her 2010 monograph for Oxford University
Press, Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in
Asian/Chinese America)
 Jin Hi Kim (2010 Guggenheim Fellow in Musical Composition, edited for
idiomatic/grammatical English her memoir Komungo Tango for University of
Michigan Press)
 Bob Gluck (University at Albany/SUNY music professor, peer-reviewed his
monographs You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the
Mwandishi Band [University of Chicago Press, 2012] and Revolutionary
Ensembles: Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins
[University of Chicago Press, in press])

2. Mike Heffley – Copyediting, Proofreading, Peer Reviewing
website * email * voice mail: (503) 895-7583
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EDUCATION
University of Oregon
B.S., Journalism, 1977
Antioch University
M.A., Music/Arts Administration, 1993
Wesleyan University
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, 2000
EMPLOYMENT
Baker College, Flint MI
Faculty, Gen Ed & Dev Dept.
2012-present
I teach online courses Music Appreciation (HUM 357) and Philosophy of Ethics (HUM 401A)
University of Phoenix, Phoenix AZ
Faculty, Communications & Humanities Departments
2006-present
I teach Writing and Humanities courses for University of Phoenix. My work after teaching one
Critical Thinking class for local U. of Phx. Oregon campus when first hired has been exclusively
online.
Guggenheim Foundation
Fellow, 2006-2007
Granted $40,000 stipend to produce a book I proposed (my third).
Yale University Press
Contracted author
2002-2005
My duties include researching for, writing, copyediting and proofreading, and working with
editors to format for production a 500-page academic study of music for 2005 publication.
Rutgers University Department of English
Writing Instructor
2000-2002
I was responsible for teaching two courses to 26 undergraduates per semester in Expository
Writing and Basic Composition. My duties included preparation of classroom writing work,
copyediting and proofreading students’ work, teaching students the basics of grammar and
style.
Wesleyan University and German government
Research Assistant, Library Assistant
1997-2000
I was responsible for traveling to various European sites to conduct archival research of
German- and French-language material and interviews with German subjects to generate and
translate new material for Wesleyan’s Olin Library. When working in the library, I performed
customer service and computerized and physical inventory control of the music archives.
Wesleyan University Music Department and Greenwood Press
Research Assistant, Editor-for-hire, and Contracted Author
1993-1996

3. Mike Heffley – Copyediting, Proofreading, Peer Reviewing
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For Wesleyan, I copyedited, proofread, and transcribed handwritten musical materials into
computerized notation for professional publication; and I copyedited and proofread manuscripts
of dissertations, theses, articles and books by foreign graduate students and faculty, checking
them for idiomatic English, grammar, and style. For Greenwood, my duties include researching
for, writing, copyediting and proofreading, and working with editors to format for production (on
Quark) a 500-page academic monograph for 1996 publication.
Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Antioch University, Pacific Rim Players, Inc., and Tri-Centric
Foundation
Curriculum Writer/General Manager/Grantwriter/Publicist
1990-1996
After six-month internship, was hired by the Hult Center for the Performing Arts (one of the Top
Ten ranked presenters in the country then) to write promotional and press copy in the Marketing
and Programming Division. For Antioch, I contracted to design a graduate course of study in
Arts Administration, a rarity for the time. For both Pacific Rim Players, Inc. (an Oregon nonprofit)
and the Tri-Centric Foundation (the New York nonprofit of MacArthur Fellow, composer Anthony
Braxton), I wrote grant proposals for arts events, generating $140,000 in grants, in-kind
donations, and earned income; and I designed and wrote publicity and promotional materials for
the events.
Aster Publishing, Inovec
Proofreader, Editorial Assistant, Technical Writer
1988-90
For Aster, I proofread scientific trade magazines for language and style; and I researched for,
wrote, and edited articles assigned to me. For Inovec, I converted disparate data about
industrial software into lay terms for a user’s manual; I produced the manual on desktop
publisher (Ventura).
Self
1977-present
Freelance Journalist/Academic Author/Editor
Queried about, proposed, and wrote more than three hundred articles, columns, book and
music reviews, and interviews to major local, regional, national and international print media,
academic journals, conferences, and presses. As a Ph.D. candidate, regularly worked as a
freelance editor/proofreader of academic manuscripts by fellow grad students and faculty.
Since graduating in 2000, that work has extended to for-hire contracts with academic presses
including Oxford University Press, University of Michigan Press, University of Chicago Press,
and Routledge, among others.
SKILLS
Extensive experience with Chicago Manual of Style, APA and other style guides, both
global and in-house. Knowledge of proofreading and copyediting standards,
conventions, and symbols. Thorough familiarity with standard dictionaries and writing
references. Strong experience with all Microsoft Office software, Blackboard and other online
teaching platforms. Strong, fast keyboard and organizational skills. Functional reader of German
and French.