CONSULTS ON: Developmental editing for book manuscripts; book proposals.

 

AREAS OF INTEREST: Social Sciences, Humanities, Architecture

 

BIO: Gretchen Bakke holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Cultural Anthropology. Her work focuses on the chaos and creativity that emerges during social, cultural, and technological transitions. She is a former fellow in Wesleyan University’s Centre for the Humanities, a former Fulbright fellow, and is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at McGill University. She publishes primarily on technology, art, expressive and popular culture.Bakke has spent a decade working with advanced graduate students across the arts and humanities completing dissertations; she has coached 200+ students struggling in innumerable ways toward a successful defense and she continues to teach short courses on dissertation writing in Canada and Switzerland. Since 2015 Bakke has worked almost exclusively with professors and post-docs on book manuscripts, book proposals, time management, and other publication issues. In this, she is both editor and coach. Her primary focus is helping to assure that manuscripts can easily pass peer review and advance toward publication.Her own publications include two co-edited volumes on the anthropology or art, one trade book on the American electric grid, and an almost done volume on contemporary Slovenia. Her next project is a co-authored writing guide with Verity Elston called Write it; Work it: A Practical Guide to Writing a Genuinely Excellent PhD Thesis in a Reasonable Period of Time and Building a Well-Remunerated, Eminently Satisfying Career Path and Following it—a Book in Two Parts.

 

RATE: $100/hr