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Maya Feile Tomes is Lorna Close Lecturer in Spanish and Fellow of 听Murray Edwards College, as well as Director of Studies in Modern & Medieval Languages and Bye-Fellow at Peterhouse. She is also an Affiliate Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, 澳门六合彩开奖记录. She took up her current post as Lorna Close Lecturer in 2021 after a stint as Teaching Associate in Colonial Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies here in the Spanish & Portuguese Section, prior to which she was a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at Christ鈥檚 College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录. Her research revolves around the literary culture of the early modern Iberian world, focusing on transatlantic dialogues, multilingual dynamics (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin), and classical reception. She also has a special interest in translation, both teaching and practice, and has recently been shortlisted for the Sundial Literary Translation Award (2024) and twice longlisted (2019, 2023) for the John Dryden Literary Translation Prize. Her PhD thesis won both the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) & Spanish Embassy Dissertation Publication Prize (UK) and the Hare Prize in the Faculty of Classics, 澳门六合彩开奖记录. She has been a keynote speaker at conferences from Germany to Brazil.
Early modern Iberian global literature
Comparative literature
Poetry and poetics
(Post)colonial studies
Literary culture of the Southern Cone (esp. Argentina)
Classical reception
Translation studies
Edited volumes
, ed. Luke Glanville, David Lupher and Maya Feile Tomes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
, ed. Maya Feile Tomes, Adam J. Goldwyn and Matthew Duqu猫s. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2021.
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Chapters and articles
听 2023. 鈥楿na heroica dama? The Discurso en loor de la poes铆a (1608) in context and the case for Diego Mex铆a as 鈥淐larinda鈥濃��, Colonial Latin American Review 32.4, 452鈥�80.
2023. 鈥楥arthaginian America: Classical Encounters in Early Ibero-American Epic鈥� International Journal of the Classical Tradition 30.1 (special issue: The Global Dissemination of Classical Learning, ed. Erik Hermans), 66鈥�104.
2021. 鈥楾he Other Arena: Poetics Goes Global in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic, 1500-1650(+)鈥�, Classical Receptions Journal 13.1 (special issue: Artes Poeticae: Formations and Transformations 1500-1650, ed. Micha Lazarus and Vladimir Brljak), 126鈥�48.
2021. 鈥業ntroduction. Synecdoche in Reverse: America鈥檚 Transhemispheric Classics鈥�, pp. 1鈥�49 in Brill鈥檚 Companion to Classics in the Early Americas, ed. M. Feile Tomes, Adam J. Goldwyn and Matthew Duqu猫s. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
2020. 鈥楶lurilingual Poetry and the Hinterland of Intertextuality: Europeanising Reading Culture in the Early Modern Iberian World鈥�, pp. 227鈥�48 in The Edinburgh History of Reading, Vol. 1: Early Readers, ed. Mary Hammond. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
2019. 鈥楾he Angel and Ameri(c)a: Performing the 鈥淣ew World鈥� in Jos茅 Manuel Peram谩s鈥檚 De Invento Novo Orbe (1777)鈥�, pp. 121鈥�46 in Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia and the Americas, ed. Yasmin Haskell and Rapha毛le Garrod. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
2018. 鈥楽眉damerika: Die spanischsprachigen L盲nder鈥�, pp. 920鈥�32 in Der neue Pauly. Das 18. Jahrhundert: Lexikon zur Antikerezeption in Aufkl盲rung und Klassizismus, ed. Joachim Jacob and Johannes S眉脽mann. Stuttgart/Weimar: J. B. Metzler.
2015a.听 鈥楴ews of a Hitherto Unknown Neo-Latin Columbus Epic 鈥� Part I: Jos茅 Manuel Peram谩s鈥檚 De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio (1777)鈥�, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 22.1, 1鈥�28.
2015b. 鈥楴ews of a Hitherto Unknown Neo-Latin Columbus Epic 鈥� Part II: Jos茅 Manuel Peram谩s鈥檚 De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio (1777)鈥�, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 22.2, 223鈥�57.
2015c. 鈥楩urther Points on Peram谩s: An Erratum and two Addenda鈥�, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 22.3, 383鈥�9.
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Translations
2023. Macarena Areco, 鈥業maginaries of Technology and Subjectivity: Representations of AI in Contemporary Chilean Science Fiction鈥�, pp. 192鈥�209 in , ed. Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2020. Leslie Nancy Hern谩ndez Nova 鈥� 鈥楾he Conquest in Cultural Memory: Peruvian Migrants in Europe鈥�, pp. 264鈥�76 in , ed. Jenny Mander, David Midgley and Christine Beaule. New York & London: Routledge.
2020. Diego Stefanelli 鈥� 鈥業talian Scientists in South America: Argentina as Constructed by Paolo Mantegazza and Pellegrino Strobel鈥�, pp. 61鈥�72 in , ed. Jenny Mander, David Midgley and Christine Beaule. New York & London: Routledge.
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Reviews & Other
2022. 鈥樷�� 鈥� Hesp茅rides Network ~ Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) guest blogpost.
2019. Review of Andrew Laird and Nicola Miller, ed., Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America (Wiley, 2018), .
2017. Review of Robert Goodwin, Spain: The Centre of the World, 1519-1682 (Bloomsbury, 2015), History 102.3, 503鈥�6.
2017. Review of Shane Butler, ed., Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception (Bloomsbury, 2016), Classical Review 67.2, 561鈥�3.
2015. Review of Christiane P茅rez Gonz谩lez, Bilingualit盲t auf der Jesuitenb眉hne. Latein und Volkssprache im spanischen Schultheater des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (Rhema, 2014), Journal of Jesuit Studies 2.2, 329鈥�32.
