Michael is Professor and Director of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. A Jesuit priest, Michael is currently co-General Editor of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO).
As the 2014–15 J. R. Lyell Reader in Bibliography at Oxford University, he delivered a course of lectures entitled: “The Reach of Bibliography: Looking Beyond Letterpress in Eighteenth-Century Books” during the first three weeks of Trinity Term.
His two 2014 publications are The Book: A Global History (co-edited with H. R. Woudhuysen), and a scholarly edition of The Dublin Notebook of Gerard Manley Hopkins (co-edited with L. J. Higgins).
