JAMES T. McDONOUGH JR.

THESIS AND DISSERTATION EDITOR

RELIGION AND THEOLOGY

JAMES T. McDONOUGH JR., Ph.D. is a thesis and dissertation writing consultant and editor.

1998 - 2002 Co-teacher, doctoral seminar on Biblical Greek, Temple University
1998 Editor, World Dictionary of Foreign Expressions
1996 Editor, A Booke of Days, Stephen J. Rivele (historical novel on First Crusade)
1994 Editor, 2nd edition, Bantam Latin & English Dictionary
1992 - 1993 Editor, 2nd pocket edition, Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary
1990 - 1994 Etymology Editor, Stedman's Medical Dictionary (unabridged, hard-cover)
1976 - 1988 developed teaching materials for Language of Medicine course
1972 team-taught seminar on Homer and Plato, Haverford College
1965 United States Office of Education, Cooperative Research Project No. 5-8256
1960 -1991 Professor, Saint Joseph's University

Editing (some for author, some for publisher)
Thomas F. McDaniel, Deborah and Yael: Women of Power in Early Israel 2nd edition of Deborah Never Sang
E. Michael Jones,Dionysos Rising: The Birth of Cultural Revolution out of the Spirit of Music
Louis Harry Feldman, Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World
Dia Maria Lavrendia Philippides, The Iambic Trimeter of Euripides
Frances Forde Plude,The Flickering Light: What's Happening to Catholic Schools
Margaret Gest (trans.), Horace's Odes
Leo P. McCauley & Anthony A. Stephenson (trans.), Saint Cyril of Jerusalem: Catechetical Lectures for Lent

Awards and Honors
Visiting Scholar, National Library of Medicine
1980 Award for Excellence in Teaching Classics, American Philological Association
1958 -1959 Henry Drisler Fellow, Columbia University

Subjects Taught in Original Language: Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Greek comedy, Greek tragedy, Greek and Roman drama, Greek philosophy, Menander
Subjects Taught in English Translations: Mythology, religion, ancient history, slavery, feminism, ancient art, classical tradition, medicine (language and history), English composition, English literature, Urban studies

FEEDBACK

“I appreciated the manner in which you conducted the editing process with me. Not only did my writing project improve in structure, clarity and focus, but I found that I also matured as a writer. Most significantly I appreciated how you gently challenged some of my convictions, through which I was able to grow as a person. I did not expect that I would mature as much as I have through a ‘writing project.’ Thank-you for being an effective instrument in my growth.” David E White Change Agent: Facilitator * Writer * Speaker

"Dear Jim,

Having been a published author since 1983 with eight books edited by a variety of editors, most very talented and helpful, I was led by way of an industrious student at Harvard University to the your doorstep.

Now after seven years of working with you as “my editor,” on numerous stories, articles, folktales, as well as a memoir manuscript that may find its way to an Agent I can say that you have been far more than an Editor. You have been a mentor, therapist, linguist, theologian, philosopher, and educator in the grammatical arts.

More importantly you have become a friend who has encouraged me when I ran into word blocks, care-fronted me when my writing slid into nonsense, and a great conversationalist.

The most important gift you have given me as “my editor,” is attention. No matter how often I contacted you by email or telephone you responded within days.  

You have made me a better writer, a more confident man, and, I believe, a more compassionate Catholic Priest." Father John Powers, C.P.

“Thank you so much for putting so much effort in my work. I deeply appreciate it and I am very grateful to your guidance. I will definitely be in touch, I have another paper coming up (along the same lines) in March, so this is not the last you have heard from me :) Also, thanks for encouraging me, I really want to improve my writing and learning that I do not sound foreign boosts my confidence immensely.”  (On file with network coordinator)