Author Archives: Ed Battistella

About Ed Battistella

Edwin Battistella’s latest book Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels was released by Oxford University Press in March of 2020.

In Praise of Copyeditors

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Ed Battistella

I’m finishing up responding to a copyeditor’s suggestions and queries for a book on the language of public apologies. In an earlier post, I mentioned errors Jennifer Marcellus found in the early drafts of the manuscript. This post is about … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Heather Arndt Anderson

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Ed Battistella

Portland-based Heather Arndt Anderson is the author of Breakfast: A History (Baltimore: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy, 2013) and wrote the Pacific Northwest chapter in the 4-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Peter Laufer

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Ed Battistella

Peter Laufer is a journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker and he holds the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon. He is the author of 20 books on such topics as the media, immigration, natural history, and … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Kimberly Jensen

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Ed Battistella

Kimberly Jensen is professor of History and Gender Studies at Western Oregon University where she teaches courses in United States history, the history of health, medicine and gender, and autobiography, biography and memoir in American history. Jensen has a Ph.D. … Continue reading →

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