

Biography
Dr. Omar F. Miranda specializes in the literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. He is the editor of On the 200th Anniversary of Lord Byron's Manfred: Commemorative Essays, a Romantic Circles Praxis volume dedicated to Byron's poetic drama, co-editor of a forthcoming Cambridge volume, Percy Shelley for Our Times, and editor of an abridged teaching edition of Mary Shelley’s novel, The Last Man (Romantic Circles). He has published or forthcoming essays in European Romantic Review, Symbiosis, Keats-Shelley Journal, Romantic Circles, Studies in Romanticism, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, and The Wordsworth Circle; book chapters in Byron in Context (Cambridge UP), The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel; and book reviews in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, BARS Bulletin, and Review 19. He is currently working on a book manuscript, which tracks the origins and rise of the culture of global celebrity in the Romantic period (1750-1850).
- Education
- New York University, PhD in English and American Literature
- Boston College, MA in English
- University of Miami (Florida), BA in German, Political Science, and English
- Awards & Distinctions
Jesuit Foundation Pedagogy Grant, "Ignatian Humanism and Recited Verse," May 2021
Technology Award for Innovation in Teaching, Office of Educational Technology Services, USF, May 2019
Mellon Foundation Research and Teaching Award, 2019
USF Nominee, Summer Stipends Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, Sept. 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