Testimonies
“Over the past five years Ian’s proofreading skills, patience and feedback have been invaluable in helping me present and publish my academic research in English. I can’t recommend him highly enough.”
(PD Dr. Axel Jansen, Historisches Seminar, Universität Tübingen)
“Ian has been very reliable, fast and thorough, constructive and creative in proofreading my academic papers in English over the past year. His skills make him my first choice when I need advice on the form and content of my writing in English.”
(Katharina Worch, M.A., Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.)
“I had the pleasure to get to know Dr. Ian Copestake when I contributed essays to books that he edited in the recent past. In all my dealings with him he has struck me as an extremely competent and careful editor and proof-reader for whom I have the highest admiration. Moreover, doing business with him has been a real pleasure because in all his dealings he showed himself to be both amiable and reliable.”
(Peter Halter, Honorary Professor of American Literature, University of Lausanne)
“Without Ian’s proofreading in the past years, my presentations in English wouldn’t have become what they became. His ability to suggest revisions and also preserve the characteristic style of my papers has been very important.”
(Dr. Sascha Liebermann, Gastwissenschaftler, Zentrum für Organisations- und Arbeitswissenschaften [ZOA], ETH Zürich.)
From reviews of Ian’s edited volumes
Rigor of Beauty: Essays in Commemoration of William Carlos Williams. Ed. Ian D. Copestake. Oxford: PeterLang, 2004
“Copestake's collection brings fresh insights into Williams’s modernist dimensions, especially his tireless efforts to define a poetics that could evolve as the culture itself changed. The poet's own diversity is central to this commemorative volume, an important addition to Williams studies.”
(Theodora Rapp Graham, Modernism/Modernity)
American Postmodernity Essays on the Recent Fiction of Thomas Pynchon. Ed. Ian D. Copestake. Oxford: Peter Lang: 2003
“... the collection is an important contribution to Pynchon studies.”
(Manfred Kopp, Amerikastudien/American Studies)
”...this perceptive book of essays is a welcome contribution to Pynchon studies, and to the study of contemporary U.S. literature and culture.”
(Erik S. Roraback, Pynchon Notes)