Omar F. Miranda

Omar F. Miranda

Associate Professor

Full-Time Faculty

Biography

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, especially their transnational, global, and diasporic contexts. He is currently working on a book manuscript that tracks the origins and rise of the culture of global celebrity in the Romantic period. He is also part of an editorial team assembling the new Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era. 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 of the recently-published volume, Percy Shelley for Our Times (Cambridge University Press). He is also editor of On the 200th Anniversary of Lord Byron's Manfred: Commemorative Essays (Romantic Circles), a collection of essays and resources dedicated to Byron’s poetic drama. He also recently completed an open-access abridged teaching edition of Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel, 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. He also has published or forthcoming book chapters in Byron in Context (ed. Clara Tuite, Cambridge University Press), the Norton Critical Edition of The Last Man (ed. Chris Washington), 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, all of whom lived during and participated in their 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 excellent 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 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); he is also on the Board of Directors of the Byron Society of America. He is founder and director of Recited Verse, a digital platform and app dedicated to poetry recordings of all kinds and for all audiences. Professor Miranda has previously taught at New York University, The Juilliard School, and Boston College.

Education

  • 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

Awards & Distinctions

  • 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

Selected Publications

Edited Volumes

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters