Michael F. Suarez
Michael F. Suarez, S.J. is Professor of English and Director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.[1] He is editor-in-chief of the largest digital humanities project in the world: Oxford Scholarly Editions Online.[2] He is a Jesuit priest.[3]
Education and career[edit]
Suarez is University Professor and Director of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He has been awarded research fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. [4]
Since 2010, Suarez has served as Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO).[5][6]
In 2014-2015 as Lyell Lecturer Suarez focused on "The Reach of Bibliography" at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. [7]
Suarez gave the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania in 2021 on "Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807" and highlighted the role of Martha Gurney in creating public opinion against slavery in Sugar plantations in the Caribbean. [8]
In the 2023 Annual Report of the Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia where Suarez is Executive Director, the 30th anniversary of the RBS is discussed.[9]
He was the inaugural visiting professor of Paleography at the University of Chicago in 2022. [10]
Awards and honors[edit]
- 2022 Visiting Scholar in Paleography and the Book. University of Chicago.[11]
- 2021. A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
- 2015-2016. Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Council on Library and Information Resources.
- 2014-2015. Lyell Readership in Bibliography
- 2014. Fredson Bowers Award of the Bibliographical Society of America.
- 2012–2017. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School.[12]
- 2012. American Printing History Association Annual Award “for a distinguished contribution to the study, recording, preservation or dissemination of printing history.”
- 2009, 2010, 2012. Best Book of the Year, Times Literary Supplement for The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Volume 5, 1695–1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Oxford Companion to the Book (Oxford University Press, 2010) & Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (2012– ).
- 1990. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.
- 1987. Chancellor's English Essay Prize, Oxford University.
- 1987. Sir Roger Newdigate Poetry Prize, Oxford University.
- 1984-1987. Marshall Scholar, Oxford University.
Selected publications[edit]
- Suarez, Michael F. co-General Editor of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Dublin Notebook."[13][14]
- Suarez, Michael F. 2017. “Hard Cases: Confronting Bibliographical Difficulty in Eighteenth-Century Texts.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 111 (1): 1–30.
- Suarez, Michael Felix, H. R Woudhuysen, and Oxford University Press.The Book : A Global History. Oxford: University Press, 2013.
- Suarez, Michael Felix and H. R. Woudhuysen. The Oxford Companion to the Book. 2010. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Suarez, Michael F., and Michael L. Turner, eds. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Volume 5, 1695–1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Suarez, Michael Felix. “Swift’s Satire and Parody” in The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift, Christopher Fox, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003: 112–27.
- McKenzie, D. F.; McDonald, Peter D. and Suarez, Michael Felix Making Meaning: “Printers of the Mind” and Other Essays. 2002. Amherst Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press.
- Suarez, Michael F. 2002. “Uncertain Proofs: Alexander Pope, Lewis Theobald, and Questions of Patronage.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 96 (3): 404.
- Suarez, Michael F. 1994. “Dodsley’s Collection of Poems and the Ghost of Pope: The Politics of Literary Reputation.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 88 (June): 189–206.
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Michael Suarez Department of English. University of Virginia.
- ^ Rathbone, Emma. What’s the future of books in a digital world? Virginia Fall, 2011).
- ^ Professor Michael Suarez,S.J. Campion Hall, University of Oxford.
- ^ International Summit of the Book Library of Congress 2009.
- ^ Oxford Scholarly Editions Online. Oxford University Press.
- ^ "Oxford Scholarly Editions Online." 2012///Autumn.Refer 28 (3) (Autumn 2012): 25.
- ^ The Lyell Lectures Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
- ^ Suarez, Michael F. Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography. University of Pennsylvania, 2021.
- ^ RBS-Annual-Report.pdf RBS Annual Report Rare Book School, April, 2023.
- ^ Michael Suarez, S.J.: "The Book as Museum in Eighteenth-Century Europe" Paleography and the Book Lecture 2022, February 24, 2022, David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago.
- ^ Golus, Carrie. "He’s not just a bibliophile. He’s a bibliophage." Tableau. University of Chicago. Spring 2022.
- ^ The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography Mellon Foundation.
- ^ The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Volume VII: The Dublin Notebook. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Mariani, Paul. “The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edited by Lesley J. Higgins and Michael F. Suarez, S.J.” Journal of Jesuit Studies 2, no. 1 (2015): 141–44.