Omar F. Miranda

Dr. Omar F. Miranda is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He received his PhD in English and American Literature from New York University and specializes in the literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular emphasis on their transnational, global, and diasporic dimensions. His current scholarly book project investigates the cultural infrastructures and obscured dynamics that underwrote the rise of transnational celebrity culture during the Romantic era. He is also part of an editorial team assembling a global scholarly handbook on the literatures and cultures of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. His article, "The Global Romantic Lyric" (The Wordsworth Circle, 2021), won the Bigger 6 Article of the Year award in 2022 from the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies (CECS) at the University of York, UK. 

Professor Miranda is co-editor, with Kate Singer (Mt. Holyoke College), of Percy Shelley for Our Times (Cambridge University Press) and editor of On the 200th Anniversary of Lord Byron's Manfred: Commemorative Essays (Romantic Circles), a digital collection dedicated to Byron’s poetic drama. He recently completed an open-access abridged teaching edition of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (Romantic Circles). He has published essays in European Romantic Review, Symbiosis, Keats-Shelley Journal, Romantic Circles, Studies in Romanticism, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, and The Wordsworth Circle. His book chapters include contributions to Byron in Context (ed. Clara Tuite, Cambridge University Press), the Norton Critical Edition of The Last Man (ed. Chris Washington), Nineteenth Century Literature in Translation: The 1800s (ed. Andrew Stauffer), The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (ed. April London), Percy Shelley in Context, (ed. Ross Wilson, Cambridge University Press), and Mary Shelley in Context (ed. Lisa Vargo).

His asynchronous online course, “Romance, Revolution, Exile,” fulfills the C1 CORE Curriculum requirement and is offered to all USF students during the summer and January intersession terms. The class focuses on the lives and works of celebrity authors of romance and exile, including Francisco de Miranda, Germaine de Staël, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, figures who not only witnessed but helped shape the global age of revolution. Professor Miranda’s introductory and upper-level literature courses at USF include “Multimedia Jane Austen,” “The Gothic Obsession,” “The Literature of Exile,” and “Literary Theory.” As advisor, he enjoys working with the outstanding USF students who run Ignatian Literary Magazine, a journal that has been on our campus since 1910 and under the aegis of the Department of English since 1988; read more about discovering the incredible Ignatian archives at Gleeson Library here. 

Dr. Miranda currently serves as Vice President for Academic Outreach of the Keats-Shelley Association of America (K-SAA) and sits on the Board of Directors of the Byron Society of America. He is co-editor, with Porscha Fermanis (University College Dublin), of The New Nineteenth Century, a book series with Bloomsbury Publishing that reimagines the long nineteenth century through global, comparative, and interdisciplinary frames. He is also the founder and director of Recited Verse, a digital platform and app dedicated to poetry recordings of all kinds and for all audiences. Prior to joining USF, Professor Miranda taught at New York University, The Juilliard School, and Boston College.

• New York University, PhD in English and American Literature
• Boston College, MA in English Literature
• University of Miami (Florida), BA in German, Political Science, and English

• Article of the Year Award, Bigger 6 | Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies (CECS) at the University of York, 2022
• Jesuit Foundation Pedagogy Grant, "Ignatian Humanism and Recited Verse," 2021
• Technology Award for Innovation in Teaching, Office of Educational Technology Services, USF, 2019

• Mellon Foundation Research and Teaching Award, 2019

• USF Nominee, Summer Stipends Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2018
• Romantics Bicentennials Seed Grant for Frankenstein @200 Collaboration: University of San Francisco, Santa Clara University, and San Jose State University, The Byron Society and Keats-Shelley Association of America, 2018
• Romantics Bicentennials Seed Grant for Manfred Dramatic Reading and Symposium, The Byron Society and Keats-Shelley Association of America, 2016

Edited Volumes

• Percy Shelley for Our Times. Edited by Omar F. Miranda and Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke). Cambridge University Press, 2024
• The Last Man (1826) by Mary Shelley: An Abridged Teaching Edition. Edited by Omar F. Miranda, Romantic Circles, 2022
• On the 200th Anniversary of Lord Byron’s Manfred: Commemorative Essays. Edited by Omar F. Miranda. Romantic Circles Praxis Edition, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

• “X Marks the Spot: Lyrical Ballads at the Bookends: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and The White Doe of Rylstone.” Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1800s. Ed. Andrew Stauffer, Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming 2026)
• “The Exilic Imaginary and Problem of Exsilio in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Displacement in the Texts of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1815. Edited by Linda Zionkowski and Cynthia Klekar-Cunningham. (Forthcoming 2026)
• “Empire and Exile Upended in The Last Man,” The Norton Critical Edition of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, Ed. Chris Washington (2023)
• “London in 1810: Spanish American Independence at 27 Grafton Street.” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. Special Volume on “Trans-Imperial Latin America.” Edited by Keith Clavin. Liverpool University Press. (2023)
• “On Phoenix Wings: Lucille Clifton’s Romantic Renewals.” Studies in Romanticism. Special Volume on “Race, Blackness, and Romanticism: A Forum.” Edited by Patricia Matthew. (April 2022)
• “The Global Romantic Lyric.” The Wordsworth Circle. 52: 2. Special Volume on “Lyric Elements,” pp. 308-27 (June 2021)
• “Introduction” and Interview with Jennifer Castleton. Hubert Parry’s Scenes from Prometheus Unbound (1880): A Selection of Piano Recordings 140 Years Later by Jennifer Castleton. Romantic Circles Resources (December 2020)
• “The Age of Exile.” Two Hundred Years: 50 Voices, a special issue of the Keats-Shelley Journal. Ed. Jonathan Mulrooney, pp. 150 – 52. (November 2020)
• “Prometeo Desencadenado: The Afterlife of Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound in the Americas.” Latin American Afterlives. Romantic Circles Praxis Volume. Eds. Olivia Moy and Marco Ramirez. (July 2020)
• “Romance.” Byron in Context. Ed. Clara Tuite. Cambridge University Press, pp. 159 - 66 (January 2020)
• The Bigger Six Collective. “Coda: From Coteries to Collectives.” Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations 23:1, pp. 139-140. Composed collaboratively and credited to The Bigger Six Collective, an independent group of scholars working to challenge structural racism in Romantic studies. (July 2019)
• “Romantic Celebrity and the Journal of Exile: El Colombiano and The Liberal.” Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations. Issue on Transnational Romanticisms. Ed. Deanna Koretsky and Joel Pace, pp. 61 - 78 (July 2019)
• “Between Page and Stage: Romantic Drama and the Happy Medium.” On the 200th Anniversary of Lord Byron’s Manfred: Commemorative Essays. Ed. Omar F. Miranda. Romantic Circles Praxis Edition. (June 2019)
• “Commemorating Manfred’s Bicentenary: An Introduction.” On the 200th Anniversary of Lord Byron’s Manfred: Commemorative Essays. Ed. Omar F. Miranda. Romantic Circles Praxis Edition. (June 2019)
• “The Celebrity of Exilic Romance: Francisco de Miranda and Lord Byron,” European Romantic Review 27:2, pp. 207-31 (March 2016)