Hi, it’s nice to meet you
I’m Madeline, and I’m an editor/writer/researcher with an academic background in neuroscience and philosophy. But really, I’m interested in most everything, and I want to help you share all your great ideas.
Wherever you are in your writing, I’m here to help. I specialize in developmental and manuscript editing for academic books and articles, but I can also help you clean up and format your dissertation, write or edit marketing content, or fix up your translation to help it flow better in English.
Qualifications
B.S. in Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology from Emory University with a double major in Philosophy (ethics and ancient philosophy mostly)
A good chunk of a Ph.D. in Behavioral & Systems Neuroscience at UC Berkeley
7 years of neuroscience research experience
5 (and counting) years of editing experience.
And just so you know a little more about me as an actual real person, I live in Atlanta with my husband and our two cats, Lucy and Titan. In my free time, I like attempting to sew and knit my own clothes, trying to befriend the birds who come to my porch, and cooking genuinely amazing food (for the most part).
EDITED
BOOKS, COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS
Cavanagh, Sheila. Cooking with Shakespeare: Teaching the Plays through Culinary History and Practice. In prep, 2026.
Clot, Ziyad. There Will Be No Palestinian State: A Diary of a Negotiator in Palestine. Max Milo Éditions, 2025. Translation editing and linguistic validation (French to English). eBook.
Allen, Ruth and Linda Merrill. Recasting Antiquity: Whistler, Tanagra, and the Female Form. Exh. cat. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 2024. Substantive editing. Catalogue.
Nagawa, Margaret. Insistent Presence. Exh. cat. Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 5–December 23, 2023. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, September 13–December 14, 2025. Webpage.
Cavanagh, Sheila. Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities. Bloomsbury Press: Arden Shakespeare, 2023. Substantive editing. Book.
Zeitoun, Mark. Reflections: Understanding Our Use and Abuse of Water. Oxford University Press, 2022. Substantive editing. Publisher page.
Erpf, Rosemary. Painting in the 1980s: Reimagining the Medium. Intellect Books, 2022. Developmental editing, rewriting, proofreading, image rights management, author representation. Publisher page.
Magee, Rosemary. Family Impromptu: Collected Stories. The Conrad Press, 2022. Copyediting. eBook.
Corrigan, Kevin. Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good: Plato, Aristotle, and the Later Tradition. Wipf & Stock: Cascade Books, 2018. Copyediting. Publisher page.
DISSERTATIONS
Moncado, Sarah. “Perspectives on Clinical Oncogenomics: Secondary Germline Variants Associated with Tumor Genomic Profiling in Community Cancer Care and Advanced Practitioner Oncogenomic Proficiency.” PhD Diss., Clemson University Healthcare Genetics and Genomics, 2025. Formatting. Clemson OPEN.
Davis, Stephanie. “An Analysis of Principal Influence on Teacher Retention in a Rural School District: An Exploratory Qualitative Study.” PhD Diss., Clemson University, Educational Leadership, 2025. Copyediting and formatting. Clemson OPEN.
Mulligan Attara, Clarissa. “Licensed Professional Counselors and Licensed Mental Health Counselors’ Experiences Evaluating TGNB Clients Prior to Hormone Replacement Therapy.” PhD Diss., Capella University School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2022. Copyediting.
McCloskey, Mary. “Counselors’ Readiness to Adopt Addiction Skills and Self-Efficacy: A Causal–Comparative Study.” PhD Diss., Capella University School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2022. Copyediting.
Samandar, Abdulrahman. “The Road to Vision 2023: A New Reform Perspective Using Saudi Arabia’s Legal Framework, Judicial System, and Social Stability to Reach Development Goals.” SJD Diss., Emory University School of Law, 2022. Developmental Editing
Waters, Douglas, Jr. “Rethinking Federal Indian Law: Violence Against Native Women as an Indigenous Human Rights Violation.” SJD Diss., Emory University School of Law, 2021. Formatting and proofreading.
ESSAYS, ARTICLES, AND REVIEWS
Rahman, Mohammad. “‘The end of thinking occurred’: Storytelling and Windigo Justice in The Round House (2012).” In prep, 2025.
Rahman, Mohammad. “‘The solution to pollution is dilution:’ Nuclear Waste, Environmental Racism, and Air Inequality in Kathleen Flenniken’s Plume (2012).” In prep, 2025.
Wang, Renxi. “Decoding Microglial Polarization and Metabolic Reprogramming in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Implications for Disease Progression and Therapy.” Aging and Disease. doi:10.14336/AD.2024.1629. Advance online publication.
Kays, Allison. “Voluntary Disclosure Responses to Mandated Disclosure: Evidence from Australian Corporate Tax Transparency.” The Accounting Review 97, no. 4 (July 2022): 317–344. ePub.
Ahlawat, Sucheta. “Fight or flight: How gender influences follower responses to unethical leader behaviour.” Public Management Review 27, no. 7 (November 2021): 1786–1806. ePub.
WRITTEN
Long, M.R. (2018) Reflections on Empathy and Community. Emory Philosophy Review, 4: 16-26.
Walton, J.C., Song, E.Z., Perry, D.M., Long, M.R., Larkin, T.E., Albers, H.E. “Somatodendritic peptide release and volume transmission in the anterior hypothalamus regulate social communication in Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus).” Accepted, Journal of Neuroendocrinology.
Walton, J.C., Long, M.R., Rosenhauer, A.M., McNeill IV, J.K., Albers, H.E. “Intracellular calcium in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the resetting of circadian phase, a potential role for CRAC channels.” In prep.