Green Ink Academic Editing

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Editing for the humanities

I work with scholars across the humanities, helping them to sharpen their ideas and refine their writing. I am available to support projects focused on South Asia or on any other part of the world. If your article or book is still taking shape, I offer developmental editing to make your argument as clear and persuasive as possible. For pieces that are further along, I provide line edits and proofreading, polishing your prose so it is lucid, graceful, and professional. I can also draw maps to accompany your text.

I’ve worked on a number of books on South Asia, including Nathan Tabor’s City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi (North Carolina, 2025), Daniel Majchrowicz’s The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia (Cambridge, 2023) and A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, 1909–1910 (Indiana, 2025), and Nicholas Dirks’s Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar’s Passage to India (Columbia, 2015). I’ve also worked on books on other regions, including Patrick Noonan’s Age of Disaffection: The Aesthetic Critique of Politics in 1960s Japan (Columbia, 2025) and Andrea Wright’s Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea (Stanford, 2024).

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About me

I’m David Boyk, an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University. I am the author of Provincial Metropolis: Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India (Cambridge, 2025), as well as a number of articles and translations. I earned a PhD in modern South Asian history from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught there before coming to Northwestern. My intellectual interests include urban history, the social history of language, food studies, literature, and film. I also enjoy cooking, eating, and traveling, as well as reading stories and building marble mazes with my kids.