Dr. Maya Tomes

Biography

Maya Feile Tomes is a Lorna Close Lecturer in Spanish and an Affiliated Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge. With a focus on early modern literary culture in the Iberian world, her research explores transatlantic dialogues and multilingual dynamics across Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Latin. She is particularly interested in translation practices, having been recognized with multiple nominations for literary translation awards, including the Sundial Literary Translation Award and the John Dryden Literary Translation Prize. Maya completed her PhD with a dissertation that was awarded the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland and the Spanish Embassy Dissertation Publication Prize. She has previously served as a Teaching Associate and Junior Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. An active speaker at conferences in Germany and Brazil, her research interests include comparative literature, poetry, (post)colonial studies, and the literary culture of the Southern Cone, especially Argentina. Her work reflects a commitment to advancing understanding of literary influences across cultures during the early modern period.

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