About

Dr Chiara Howe is a freelance academic editor. She has a BA in English Literature, an MA in Education, and a PhD in American Literature. proofedit42 is a small, personal academic editing service which she set up when she was an undergraduate at Durham University. Since then, Chiara has assisted both students and academics in diverse subjects to prepare their writing for submission and publication. While her specialisms are literature, history, and philosophy, she has edited work on subjects as diverse as biotechnology, Islamic eschatology, and game theory.

Chiara passed her viva without corrections at the University of Glasgow in 2023. Her research examined 19th century US poet Walt Whitman’s transcendentalist poetics of New York, supported by a studentship from the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies, for which she has also acted as postgraduate research representative. Chiara worked for the university as a Tutor in English Literature, leading seminars and offering academic advice. She is currently adapting her thesis with the aim of publishing a monograph on the subject.

If you’d like to know more, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. If you prefer to talk ‘face-to-face’, rather than via email or phone, we’re more than happy to arrange a video call at a convenient time.