Copyeditor
I’m a full-time BELS-certified freelance copyeditor in the scientific, technical, and medical industry. I specialize in journal copy, and I have particular expertise in the following topics: oncology, rehabilitation, sports medicine, infectious diseases, and transplantation. I edit books for several university presses on a wide range of general- and special-interest topics, such as war and presidential studies, critical theory, and fossils.
Acafan
My PhD is in English from the University of Kansas, where I studied science fiction literature with Professor Emeritus James Gunn. I have authored two books and a number of articles and have coedited two books. Most of my work is service within the fan and SF scholarly communities, usually focusing on project management and book or journal production.
Current projects
I’m currently doing work about the intersection between fan studies, history, and memory; and about fan gift culture. I have just submitted an essay about the eighth Doctor and the related 1996 made-for-TV Doctor Who movie, to appear in an edited volume in 2010. I am working on an essay about fan subbing that focuses on the German-language soap opera Verbotene Liebe; and on a short essay about the finale for British SF TV show Ashes to Ashes.
Journals
Books
- Karen Hellekson, Craig Jacobsen, Patrick Sharp, and Lisa Yaszek, eds., Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre (2010, McFarland) [abstracts]
- Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, eds., Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet (2006, McFarland) [abstracts] [bibliography]
- Karen Hellekson, The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time (2001, Kent State University Press)
- Karen Hellekson, The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith (2001, McFarland)
