Lucy Metzger |

Membership Grade
Advanced Professional Member

About Lucy

Media

  • Academic books and essay collections
  • Academic journal articles
  • Theses and dissertations
  • Music education materials including listening tests
  • University textbooks
  • School textbooks
  • College training materials
  • Language-learning materials
  • Dictionaries
  • Encyclopedias

Qualifications and awards

  • BA, French, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
  • Advanced Professional Member, CIEP
  • SfEP accredited proofreader

Experience

Management and administrative

  • Professional standards director, CIEP, 2020–22
  • External relations director, SfEP, 2018–20
  • Vice-chair, SfEP, 2015–18
  • Regional development director, SfEP, 2014–15
  • Managing editor, Macmillan/Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan, 1993–95
  • Manager, Proofs Department, Macmillan/Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan, 1992–93
  • Desk editor, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Macmillan, 1990–92

Training and mentoring

  • Course tutor in copy-editing and proofreading, SfEP, 2013–15
  • Mentor in copy-editing and proofreading, SfEP, 2012–16

Training and CPD

  • Efficient Editing (SfEP) 2018
  • CIEP Conferences: each year, 2014 to 2023
  • SfEP Mini-conference Scotland 2014, 2018
  • On-Screen Editing (SfEP) 2014
  • Training for Trainers (SfEP) 2013
  • Editing and Proofreading Music (SfEP) 2011

Principal clients

Brill, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury, Routledge

Subjects

  • Art history
  • Art reference
  • Business
  • Cognitive science
  • Economics
  • English language teaching
  • Fine art practice
  • History
  • International relations
  • Management
  • Music education
  • Music history
  • Music reference
  • Philosophy
  • Politics
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Visual art


Service(s)

Specialisms

Associated skills

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