Greetings!
My name is Rinitaa Banerjee and I currently work as a copy editor at Harper Collins Publishers India. I graduated with a Masters degree in English with a concentration in British and American Literature from the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and hold a Bachelors degree in Psychology (Honours) from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, India. While pursuing my Masters, I was also an Instructor of Academic Writing and Research (ENG 101) at NC State for over a year.
This site has been designed as a portfolio to introduce you to the work I've accomplished as a Masters student in English, and as a professional with experience as an editor and writing instructor. I have provided a link to my Resume (also see About Me) in this portfolio, or even visit my profile on LinkedIn.
I have over six years of experience in the field of editing/writing wherein for over four years, I was an editor (and an assistant editor before that) on social sciences and literature in translation titles/books in Orient BlackSwan (formerly Orient Longman), academic publishers in India. Before that, I was a sub editor - editing, developing and managing web content (as well as news stories) for NDTV, one of the premier English news channels in India. Copy- and content-editing whole and edited volumes, writing blurbs for book jackets, creating layouts with web developers and designers, and also with typesetters for books edited, liaising with multiple actors in a project – single and multiple authors, designers, production editors, co-editors, marketing personnel, among others – and also working on editing and proofreading several books at one time, which entailed seeing them through from their inception to their publication, are areas that I have strong experience in. While at the publishing house, I also acquired manuscripts in the literature in translation category. On several of the books that I copyedited (especially multi-author volumes), I would deal with helping authors clear permissions from other publishing houses; permission-related issues were also involved when sourcing images and illustrations or even translation rights.
While in the US, I was an Editorial Intern at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (September 2016 to May 2017). As part of this internship, I wrote critical reports (involving analysis of theme, dialogue, style, tone apart from plot summaries) for editors on fiction and non-fiction manuscript-submissions. I also gathered experience in the marketing department there learning skills to promote books through quotes and creating graphics that could be used on social media as part of a book's pre-publication buzz.
An Editorial Assistant Intern with a peer review management company in Raleigh called J&J Editorial (January-April 2016) as part of a course called “Writing in the Non-Academic Settings” that I had taken during my last semester at the University. This internship allowed me to gain experience in managing not only peer review search for scientific and medical journal articles, but also achieve an astute understanding of the editorial and production workflows in journal publishing. As a freelance content writer in a SEO technology company, I employed a very different skill-set: I wrote articles for various clients drawing from SEO concepts like keyword ranking and user-intent!
Additionally, I have written original content pieces for the news website that I worked for, and recently contributed two of my short prose (fiction) pieces to a UK-based online magazine. The content pieces written for the news website involved not only text but also required developing stories around visuals. Visual rhetoric and interpretation are also concepts I taught my students as an Instructor for composition. I am also well-versed with documentation guidelines set out as part of the Chicago Manual of Style and the Modern Language Association (MLA). As copyeditor at the University newspaper, Technician (Summer 2015), I engaged with the AP style of editing too.
Pursuing a Masters in English has allowed me to become a prolific writer, an aspect of me as a professional I would never have been able to explore if I would not have decided to pursue a degree in English that exposed to me the ceaseless and multifaceted demands of varied genres of writing - be it literary analyses, survey of criticism, or auto-critical essays (my favorite of the lot), I have learnt the ropes of all these genres. The experience of being an Instructor of academic writing and research also pushed me to learn to apply the understanding of audience with regard to language and tone in my classroom, and even outside of it. Beyond the knowledge of accommodating texts for different audiences, my skills also encompass understanding of visual grammar and rhetoric and interpretive analyses, and also comparative rhetorical analyses.
In my academic work, Freud, the uncanny, death, trauma, and matters related to the depiction of women in literature, have formed the gamut of my research interests in the past two years as I have tried to bring together elements of Psychology into my reading of Literature. I have uploaded some of my academic papers (unpublished) as writing samples for you to see.
Aside from work, I ardently love sketching (see the one on canvas as mast-head of the "And Much Else" page? That's by me.), photography, music (I have one professional vocal recording so far) , and am an incessant reader - from Victorian fiction to crime, from twentieth-century American Modernist poetry to prose, to naturalist and realistic readables, to eighteenth-century Romantic texts. Sherlock Holmes (of course) is like love, food, home - one of those things to which I revert every day.
As you browse through my profile, I thank you in advance for your patience and interest, and I am hoping to hear from you in case of any questions, comments, or even offers to collaborate and work with you.
Shall we say then: "The game is afoot!"
Rinita Banerjee.
My name is Rinitaa Banerjee and I currently work as a copy editor at Harper Collins Publishers India. I graduated with a Masters degree in English with a concentration in British and American Literature from the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and hold a Bachelors degree in Psychology (Honours) from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, India. While pursuing my Masters, I was also an Instructor of Academic Writing and Research (ENG 101) at NC State for over a year.
This site has been designed as a portfolio to introduce you to the work I've accomplished as a Masters student in English, and as a professional with experience as an editor and writing instructor. I have provided a link to my Resume (also see About Me) in this portfolio, or even visit my profile on LinkedIn.
I have over six years of experience in the field of editing/writing wherein for over four years, I was an editor (and an assistant editor before that) on social sciences and literature in translation titles/books in Orient BlackSwan (formerly Orient Longman), academic publishers in India. Before that, I was a sub editor - editing, developing and managing web content (as well as news stories) for NDTV, one of the premier English news channels in India. Copy- and content-editing whole and edited volumes, writing blurbs for book jackets, creating layouts with web developers and designers, and also with typesetters for books edited, liaising with multiple actors in a project – single and multiple authors, designers, production editors, co-editors, marketing personnel, among others – and also working on editing and proofreading several books at one time, which entailed seeing them through from their inception to their publication, are areas that I have strong experience in. While at the publishing house, I also acquired manuscripts in the literature in translation category. On several of the books that I copyedited (especially multi-author volumes), I would deal with helping authors clear permissions from other publishing houses; permission-related issues were also involved when sourcing images and illustrations or even translation rights.
While in the US, I was an Editorial Intern at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (September 2016 to May 2017). As part of this internship, I wrote critical reports (involving analysis of theme, dialogue, style, tone apart from plot summaries) for editors on fiction and non-fiction manuscript-submissions. I also gathered experience in the marketing department there learning skills to promote books through quotes and creating graphics that could be used on social media as part of a book's pre-publication buzz.
An Editorial Assistant Intern with a peer review management company in Raleigh called J&J Editorial (January-April 2016) as part of a course called “Writing in the Non-Academic Settings” that I had taken during my last semester at the University. This internship allowed me to gain experience in managing not only peer review search for scientific and medical journal articles, but also achieve an astute understanding of the editorial and production workflows in journal publishing. As a freelance content writer in a SEO technology company, I employed a very different skill-set: I wrote articles for various clients drawing from SEO concepts like keyword ranking and user-intent!
Additionally, I have written original content pieces for the news website that I worked for, and recently contributed two of my short prose (fiction) pieces to a UK-based online magazine. The content pieces written for the news website involved not only text but also required developing stories around visuals. Visual rhetoric and interpretation are also concepts I taught my students as an Instructor for composition. I am also well-versed with documentation guidelines set out as part of the Chicago Manual of Style and the Modern Language Association (MLA). As copyeditor at the University newspaper, Technician (Summer 2015), I engaged with the AP style of editing too.
Pursuing a Masters in English has allowed me to become a prolific writer, an aspect of me as a professional I would never have been able to explore if I would not have decided to pursue a degree in English that exposed to me the ceaseless and multifaceted demands of varied genres of writing - be it literary analyses, survey of criticism, or auto-critical essays (my favorite of the lot), I have learnt the ropes of all these genres. The experience of being an Instructor of academic writing and research also pushed me to learn to apply the understanding of audience with regard to language and tone in my classroom, and even outside of it. Beyond the knowledge of accommodating texts for different audiences, my skills also encompass understanding of visual grammar and rhetoric and interpretive analyses, and also comparative rhetorical analyses.
In my academic work, Freud, the uncanny, death, trauma, and matters related to the depiction of women in literature, have formed the gamut of my research interests in the past two years as I have tried to bring together elements of Psychology into my reading of Literature. I have uploaded some of my academic papers (unpublished) as writing samples for you to see.
Aside from work, I ardently love sketching (see the one on canvas as mast-head of the "And Much Else" page? That's by me.), photography, music (I have one professional vocal recording so far) , and am an incessant reader - from Victorian fiction to crime, from twentieth-century American Modernist poetry to prose, to naturalist and realistic readables, to eighteenth-century Romantic texts. Sherlock Holmes (of course) is like love, food, home - one of those things to which I revert every day.
As you browse through my profile, I thank you in advance for your patience and interest, and I am hoping to hear from you in case of any questions, comments, or even offers to collaborate and work with you.
Shall we say then: "The game is afoot!"
Rinita Banerjee.
Writing SamplesClick on the link above to read published feature and column pieces, a few unpublished academic writing samples, and also my poems.
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Internship Experience at J&J EditorialI worked at J&J Editorial as an Editorial Assistant Intern for four months, in the role of a peer-reviewer search assistant for journals under the Future Science Group (FSG) of medical and scientific journals. Click on the link above to read of my experience in this non-academic setting.
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My BlogClick on the link above to read my blog on recipes, memoirs and everyday life.
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Please note that some of the images used in the mast-heads in this website have been taken by me and therefore should not be used by any third party for any purpose - commercial or otherwise.