DR JULIA FISHER

I am an editor with 35 years experience helping writers and speakers to craft their communications. Specializing in psycholinguistics, I use that experience to address the mechanics of word choice, sentence and paragraph construction, and their impact within the overall structure, to assure that authors successfully convey their message.

I first earned B.A. degrees in both French and Russian language from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. I then spent almost 15 years with French and American machine parts manufacturers and engineering firms supporting sales and developing advertising, newsletters, and procedure manuals for both external and internal distribution. After earning my M.A. in Linguistics and my Ph.D. in Cognitive Linguistics – both from the University of Colorado – Boulder, I entered academia as a professor and researcher, teaching at the University of Colorado – Denver while completing a post-doctoral research fellowship under a National Science Foundation grant. I moved to Belmont, MA for a position at Boston College and ultimately to Hartsville, SC, earning tenure and the rank of Full Professor, successfully publishing numerous articles in scholarly journals, and regularly presenting research at domestic and international workshops and conferences. By making tone and register explicit, my work focuses on how our language shapes our deep level thought and how to capitalize on this to assure clarity and successful communication – no matter what your medium.