Camille is a qualified professional academic editor who specialises in history. She is a former academic with a PhD in gender studies (University of Sydney, 2003) and a Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing (RMIT, 2010). After gaining her doctorate, Camille worked as a proofreader of radio-news transcriptions at the ABC and lectured and tutored at a number of Australian universities. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gender Studies and Fat Studies and on the executive of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia and the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association. She has published widely on the politics of sexed embodiment in a number of academic journals and in her monograph, Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery: Deviance, Desire and the Pursuit of Perfection (Palgrave 2018).

As an editor with over 14 years’ experience working with academics in the humanities, Camille combines her technical knowledge of grammar and style with her passion for deep reading and thinking to help her authors clarify their ideas, sharpen their arguments and refine their expression. Through her intellectual curiosity, enthusiastic encouragement and scrupulous attention to consistency and accuracy, Camille establishes collaborative working relationships that build her authors’ confidence in the value and quality of their writing.

Since 2010, Camille has worked with a diverse group of academics at different stages of their careers and from a wide range of disciplines including history, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, Indigenous studies, performance studies, Japan studies, communications, visual arts, law, international relations and social work. She is the current editor of the Journal of Australian Studies and co-editor, with Angela Wanhalla and Lyndall Ryan, of Aftermaths: Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (Otago University Press, 2023).