Michael F. Suarez

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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]

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Education and career

Suarez is University Professor and Director of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.

Prior to the University of Virginia he taught at Fordham University and Oxford University. [4]

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. [5]

In 2010 The Oxford Companion to the Book which he edited with H. R. Woudhuysen, was published and commended for its range and depth of detail. [6]

Since 2010, Suarez has served as Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO). [7] [8]

In 2014–2015 as Lyell Lecturer Suarez focused on "The Reach of Bibliography" at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. [9]

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. [10]

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. [11]

He was the inaugural visiting professor of Paleography at the University of Chicago in 2022. [12]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

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References

  1. Michael Suarez Department of English. University of Virginia.
  2. Rathbone, Emma. What’s the future of books in a digital world? Virginia Fall, 2011).
  3. Professor Michael Suarez,S.J. Campion Hall, University of Oxford.
  4. "Notes on Contributors." Studies in Bibliography 56 (2003): 339-340. https://doi.org/10.1353/sib.2007.0003.
  5. International Summit of the Book Library of Congress 2009.
  6. Regier, Willis Goth. “The Oxford Companion to the Book (Review).” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, no. 4 (2011): 549–52.
  7. Oxford Scholarly Editions Online. Oxford University Press.
  8. "Oxford Scholarly Editions Online." 2012///Autumn.Refer 28 (3) (Autumn 2012): 25.
  9. The Lyell Lectures Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
  10. 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.
  11. RBS-Annual-Report.pdf RBS Annual Report Rare Book School, April, 2023.
  12. 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.
  13. Golus, Carrie. "He’s not just a bibliophile. He’s a bibliophage." Tableau. University of Chicago. Spring 2022.
  14. The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography Mellon Foundation.
  15. The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Volume VII: The Dublin Notebook. Oxford University Press.
  16. 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.
  17. Supple, Shannon K. “The Book: A Global History.” RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage. Chicago: American Library Association, 2015.
  18. Baker, William. “The Passion for the Book and Bibliography." Suarez, Michael F., S.J., and H.R. Woudhuysen, Eds. The Oxford Companion to the Book. 2 Vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.1: Lxvi+653 Pp.; 2: Xi+654-1327 Pp. Illus. Cloth, Slipcase. $220 or £175. ( ISBN 978-0-19-860653-6).” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 2011: 407-413.
  19. Finkelstein, David. The Oxford Companion to the Book, Edited by Michael Suarez and H. R. Woudhuysen. Victorian Studies. Indiana University Press, 2011: 528-531.