About

Draft built from the old Vienna Editing biography, for David to rewrite in his own words.

I’m David Mulrooney, an Irish editor based in Vienna. I took a first-class degree in English at Trinity College Dublin and a PhD in English at Harvard, where I held the English Prize Fellowship and received several Certificates of Excellence in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center. I also studied at Boston College as a Fulbright scholar, and at Tsinghua University in Beijing on a China Scholarship Council scholarship.

From 2011 to 2014 I was a research fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy, a Swedish think tank, working from Beijing. Much of that work was editing: preparing colleagues’ research for publication in English. I have worked as an independent editor since 2019, for think tanks, journals, university presses, foundations and publishers.

I also supervise and examine research dissertations for the Professional Master of Education programme at Hibernia College in Ireland, which keeps me close to how academic writing is taught and assessed.

Selected clients

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• Institut Montaigne
• European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
• Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation
• Ivey Publishing
• European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

Memberships

• Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), Advanced Professional Member
• ACES: The Society for Editing
• Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)

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Also

I run Genealogy Research, an Irish family history research service.