Working on your first scholarly book proposal?

Need big-picture guidance on your latest draft?

Or are your book proofs on the way?

If so, I’m here to help!

I create back-of-the-book indexes for scholarly monographs and edited collections. In addition, I review and edit academic manuscripts for publishers and authors, from journal articles and proposals to book-length projects. I also provide anti-bias content reviews and proofreading services.

Contact me at morgan@blueindexing.com at any point in the publishing process.

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My name is Morgan Genevieve Blue (she/her), and I launched BLUE Indexing & Editorial Services from my home in Indiana in 2018. I offer indexing, proofreading, and developmental editing services and have worked as a freelance diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice content reviewer for higher education publishing since 2020.

I specialize in alphabetical back-of-the-book indexes for academic texts in the humanities, with clients working primarily in media studies, rhetoric, performance studies, gender studies, childhood studies, and cultural studies.

My work includes building indexes for the texts displayed on this site, among many others. Since 2019, I also have had the pleasure of indexing a variety of scholarly social justice titles for Ideas on Fire. These experiences and training from the American Society for Indexing have given me the tools to accurately and comprehensively locate, expand upon, and cross-reference the terms readers will find most useful.

As a developmental editor and proofreader, I assist academic authors as they revise manuscripts, prepare book proposals, and finalize dissertations.

About Me

I earned a Ph.D. in media studies and a graduate portfolio in women’s and gender studies at The University of Texas at Austin. I currently serve on the advisory board of Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism. I am the author of Girlhood on Disney Channel: Branding, Celebrity, and Femininity (Routledge 2017) and co-editor of Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture, Vol.2 (Peter Lang 2018). My research has been published in Feminist Media Studies, Film, Fashion & Consumption, Red Feather Journal, Journal of Children and Media, and Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music. My latest scholarship is included in The Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical (Oxford University Press 2025).

I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional land of the Kaskaskia, Myaamia, and Kiikaapoi Peoples. I honor this land by growing native plants, contributing to conservation efforts, and supporting Indigenous activism.

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