Margeli was founded in February 2017 and is therefore a young and fresh company. Yet we have many years of experience, because the owner, Marga van Gent-Petter, has been professionally formed in the English-speaking world since 1985. After a year of volunteer work in Conference centre Lee Abbey, Lynton, North Devon, England, she started her studies in English language and literature at the Vrije University (VU) in Amsterdam. Selected as one of the Prof. Harting scholars in 1990, she obtained her Master’s degree in linguistics at the University of North Wales in Bangor in 1991. The following year she graduated from the VU University and started on a PhD in generative linguistics (syntax). In 1994 she spent a semester at the University of Massachussetts in Amherst. She successfully defended her dissertation in the summer of 1998. Since then she has worked as a teacher of English and linguistics at the University of Amsterdam (UVA), the VU and the Christelijke Hogeschool Ede/ University of Applied Sciences (CHE) in Ede and more recently at the Hogeschool Utrecht (HU). Alongside her studies and regular jobs, she has always worked freelance or on a voluntary basis as a translator, interpreter, proof-reader and copywriter.
