Shanon Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
I started Style & Spine to provide developmental editing and consulting services to writers of scholarly non-fiction. Since 2020, I have worked with over 100 authors on a wide variety of research projects and publications, offering intellectual community, constructive feedback, and developmental support.
I am an historian by training. I began full-time editorial consulting following eight years as a professor at a large research university. My own scholarship and teaching have focused mainly on transnational history, U.S. foreign relations, empire, mass media, and the body, but my interests are broad and multidisciplinary.
My editorial practice is enhanced by my own background as an academic and professor. I have authored a monograph (Harvard University Press), articles, book chapters, commentary, and book reviews; edited a multi-author volume (Duke University Press); provided peer-review; adjudicated funding competitions; supervised research projects, including seventeen graduate degrees; and developed numerous university courses as an award-winning teacher. Thanks to these experiences, I recognize the structural and personal challenges authors often face. I also understand the impact new scholarship can make, and why it is worth investing in.
Style & Spine provides editorial consulting, dialogue, collaborative feedback, and concrete action plans for clients at every stage in the process of developing, writing, revising, and publishing academic scholarship and other forms of non-fiction, with an emphasis on works in the humanities and social sciences.
More information about specific services is available here. Examples of my own published research are displayed below.
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