{{Short description|American academic}} '''Michael F. Suarez, S.J.''' is an American academic and [[Jesuit priest]]. He is the executive director of [[Rare Book School]] (RBS) at the [[University of Virginia]] (UVA), where he is also a professor of English, a university professor, and an honorary curator of special collections.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Michael F. Suarez, S.J. |url=https://rarebookschool.org/faculty/general/michael-suarez/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Rare Book School |language=en}}</ref> In addition to serving as Rare Book School’s executive Director, Suarez teaches multiple courses on bibliography and book history at the school.<ref name=":0" /> He is also PI for $5.4 million in grants from the [[Andrew W. Mellon Foundation]] to support the study of bibliography and book history at Rare Book School and beyond.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Michael Suarez |url=https://english.as.virginia.edu/people/michael-suarez |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Department of English |language=en}}</ref>
==Education==
Suarez has a B.A. from [[Bucknell University]] where he triple-majored in biology, English, and sociology and was a [[Phi Beta Kappa]] graduate.<ref name=":3" /> He graduated with departmental honors and received the 1982 [[Omicron Delta Kappa]] National Leader of the Year Award.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Past Recipients - Dougherty National Leader of the Year |url=https://odk.org/circle-officers/recognition-awards/past-recipients-loy/ |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Omicron Delta Kappa |language=en-US}}</ref> His has a Doctor of Philosophy, a Master of Studies, and an M.A./B.A. from [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]]; he also earned Master of [[theology]] and Master of [[divinity]] from the [[Weston Jesuit School of Theology]].<ref name=":0" /> A [[Marshall Scholarship|Marshall Scholar]] at Oxford, he graduated first in his class and won the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize for Poetry and the Chancellor’s English Essay Prize.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marshall Scholar Alumni by Year from Association of Marshall Scholars |url=https://marshallscholars.org/alumni-by-year |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Association of Marshall Scholars |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":3" />
== Career == A Jesuit priest, he previously taught at [[Fordham University]], where he was the J.A. Kavanaugh Professor of English (1999–2009), and in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at Oxford University (1995–2009), where he was fellow and tutor in English at [[Campion Hall, Oxford|Campion Hall]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2003 |title=Notes on Contributors |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/214497 |journal=Studies in Bibliography |language=en |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=339–340 |doi=10.1353/sib.2007.0003 |issn=1553-3891|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Revd Professor Michael Suarez, SJ {{!}} campion-hall |url=https://www.campion.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-professor-michael-suarez-sj |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=www.campion.ox.ac.uk}}</ref> He was a junior research fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford (1995–99).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael F. Suarez, S.J. |url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/michael-f-suarez-sj |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University |language=en}}</ref> He has previously held research fellowships from the [[American Council of Learned Societies]], the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]], the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]], and the [[Harvard Radcliffe Institute|Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Speakers - International Summit of the Book {{!}} Library of Congress |url=https://www.loc.gov/international-book-summit/speakers.html |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=www.loc.gov}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=RBS |date=2025-04-04 |title=Rare Book School Executive Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J. To Give 2025 UVA Commencement Address |url=https://rarebookschool.org/rbs-suarez-to-give-2025-uva-commencement-address/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Rare Book School |language=en}}</ref>
Since 2010, he has served as the editor-in-chief of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO), which contains the equivalent of over 870,000 print pages of digital content.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oxford Scholarly Editions |url=https://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Oxford Scholarly Editions Online |language=en}}</ref> He is also co-general editor of ''The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins''.<ref name=":1" /> Also in 2010, ''[[The Oxford Companion to the Book]]'', which he edited alongside [[Henry Woudhuysen|H. R. Woudhuysen]], was published. This million-word reference volume on books and manuscripts from the beginning of written history to the present day has since been commended as "a paradise for book lovers"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-01-10 |title=The Oxford Companion to the Book ed by Michael Suarez and HW Woudhuysen: review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6947492/The-Oxford-Companion-to-the-Book-ed-by-Michael-Suarez-and-HW-Woudhuysen-review.html?msockid=19cc10e300a7661e1b5e053501a06795 |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}</ref> and "a fount of knowledge where the Internet is but a slot machine."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lebrecht |first=By Norman |date=2010-03-05 |title=Book Review: The Oxford Companion to the Book |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704548604575098611581995840?msockid=19cc10e300a7661e1b5e053501a06795 |access-date=2025-05-14 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
He was chosen to deliver the 2014 to 2015 J. R. Lyell Readership in Bibliography lectures at the [[Bodleian Library]], Oxford University for which he gave six talks titled "The Reach of Bibliography."<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Lyell Lectures |url=https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/the-lyell-lectures#collapse2980591 |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> In 2021, he gave the A. S. W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. His series of three lectures was titled "Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807" and highlighted the role of print publications of many kinds in creating public opinion against slavery in [[sugar plantations in the Caribbean]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807 |url=https://www.library.upenn.edu/events/asw-rosenbach-lectures/printing-abolition-how-fight#:~:text=In%20this%20series%20of%20highly,parliamentary%20reports%20and%20private%20diaries. |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Penn Libraries |language=en}}</ref>
In 2022, he was the inaugural guest professor of [[Palaeography|paleography]] at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=He’s not just a bibliophile. He’s a bibliophage. {{!}} Tableau |url=https://tableau.uchicago.edu/suarez#:~:text=During%20Winter%20Quarter,%20Michael%20F.%20Suarez,%20SJ,%20the,Evidence%20and%20Inference%20from%20Bibliography%20and%20Book%20History. |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=tableau.uchicago.edu}}</ref> Suarez currently serves as the chair of the naming and memorials committee at the University of Virginia, which is dedicated to contextualizing and deliberating on statues and memorials on university grounds.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Homepage {{!}} Naming & Memorials Committee |url=https://namingandmemorials.president.virginia.edu |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=namingandmemorials.president.virginia.edu}}</ref> Suarez delivered the UVA commencement address on May 17, 2025.<ref name=":2" />
== Awards and honors ==
* Elected fellow, [[Society of Antiquaries of London]], 2024<ref name=":3" /> * Nominee, [[National Council on the Humanities]], 2015<ref name=":3" /> * Distinguished presidential fellow, [[Council on Library and Information Resources]], 2015–16<ref name=":3" /> * Fredson Bowers Award of the [[Bibliographical Society of America]], 2014<ref name=":3" /> * [[American Printing History Association]] Annual Award, 2012<ref name=":3" /> * Elected member, [[American Antiquarian Society]], 2011<ref name=":3" /> * Elected member, [[Massachusetts Historical Society]], 2014<ref name=":3" /> * A Best Book of the Year, ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]'', 2009 for ''The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Volume 5, 1695–1830.'' Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]], 2009.<ref name=":3" /> * A Best Book of the Year, ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]] 2010'' for ''Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford: [[Oxford University Press]], 2010.<ref name=":3" /> '' * A Best Book of the Year, ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]] 2012'' for ''Oxford Companion to the Book.'' Oxford: Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, 2012.<ref name=":3" />
==Selected publications== *Suarez, Michael F. "Dodsley's Collection of Poems and the Ghost of Pope: The Politics of Literary Reputation." ''[[Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America]],'' vol. 88 (June 1994): 189–206. *Suarez, Michael F. "Uncertain Proofs: Alexander Pope, Lewis Theobald, and Questions of Patronage." ''[[Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America]]'' vol. 96, no. 3 (2002): 404. *[[Donald McKenzie (academic)|McKenzie, D. F.]]; [[Peter D. McDonald|McDonald, Peter D.]] and Suarez, Michael Felix. ''Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays.'' Amherst: [[University of Massachusetts Press]], 2002. {{ISBN|9781558493360}}. *Suarez, Michael Felix. "Swift's Satire and Parody" in ''The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift.'' Christopher Fox, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. pp. 112–27. {{ISBN|978-0521002837}}. *Suarez, Michael F. "Historiographical Problems and Possibilities in Book History and National Histories of the Book." ''[[Studies in Bibliography]],'' vol. 56 (2007): 141-170. *Suarez, Michael Felix and H. R. Woudhuysen. ''[[The Oxford Companion to the Book]].'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. {{ISBN|9780198606536}}.<ref>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.</ref><ref>Finkelstein, David. ''The Oxford Companion to the Book'', Edited by Michael Suarez and H. R. Woudhuysen. ''Victorian Studies''. Indiana University Press, 2011: 528-531.</ref> *Suarez, Michael F. and Michael L. Turner, eds. ''[[The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain]]. vol. 5, 1695–1830.'' Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]], 2010. {{ISBN|9781107626805}}. *Suarez, Michael Felix, H. R Woudhuysen, and Oxford University Press. ''The Book : A Global History.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.<ref>Supple, Shannon K. “The Book: A Global History.” ''RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage.'' Chicago: American Library Association, 2015.</ref> *Suarez, Michael F. co-general editor. ''The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Dublin Notebook''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. {{ISBN|9780199534029}}<ref>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.</ref> *Suarez, Michael F. "Hard Cases: Confronting Bibliographical Difficulty in Eighteenth-Century Texts." ''[[Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America]]'' vol. 111, no. 1 (2017): 1–30.
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