Michael F. Suarez

Michael F. Suarez, S.J. is Professor of English and Director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He is editor-in-chief of the largest digital humanities project in the world: Oxford Scholarly Editions Online. He is a Jesuit priest.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Awards and honors

 * 2022 Visiting Scholar in Paleography and the Book. University of Chicago.
 * 2012–2017. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School.

Selected publications

 * Suarez, Michael F. co-General Editor of ''The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Dublin Notebook."
 * 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 F. “Historiographical Problems and Possibilities in Book History and National Histories of the Book.” Studies in Bibliography 56 (2007): 141-170.
 * 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.