Dr Maria Czepiel
Dr Maria Czepiel is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at Warwick. She is interested in humanism, religion and literature in the Spanish Golden Age, and has published widely on the Spanish and Neo-Latin poetry of the sixteenth century. Her forthcoming monograph (Humanism and the Bible in the Poetry of Benito Arias Montano (ca. 1525–1598)) studies the complex relationship between religion and humanist learning in the poetry of the humanist Benito Arias Montano. At Warwick, she will be studying how late sixteenth-century humanists used their learning to campaign for social change.
Email: Maria.Czepiel@warwick.ac.uk
Publications
Monograph
1. Humanism and the Bible in the Poetry of Benito Arias Montano (ca. 1525–1598) (London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2026). Open Access.
Edited volumes
2. (Ed.), ‘New Perspectives on Garcilaso de la Vega’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (forthcoming 2026). Under review.
Peer-reviewed Articles in Journals
3. ‘Ovidian exile in Garcilaso’s Ode V (with notes on its date and place of composition)’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (forthcoming 2026).
4. ‘“Si nunca del umbroso y cavo seno” de Francisco de Aldana: motivos pastorales y marinos a la luz de la tópica renacentista y la tradición clásica’, Hipogrifo. Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro, 13:1 (2025), 533–46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13035/h.2025.13.01.37Link opens in a new window
5. ‘“Como la luz de la fe te falte”: The Privileging of the Christian over the Pagan in Calderón’s El divino Orfeo (1634)’, Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 10:1 (2024), 147–66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13136/rcxx9x17
6. ‘Institutional and Popular Religion in Quevedo’s “Ya la obscura y negra noche”’, Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, 29:1 (2024), 38–52. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/caliope.29.1.0038Link opens in a new window
7. ‘Horacio y Sannazaro en las dos odas inéditas de Garcilaso’, Bulletin Hispanique, 125 (2023), 37–52. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4000/bulletinhispanique.17473
8. ‘Two Newly Discovered Poems by Garcilaso de la Vega’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 99:5 (2022), 741–76. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2022.2122386
9. ‘“El canto y lira mía”: The Horatian authorial persona in the work of Fray Luis de León’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 99:6 (2022), 527–43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2022.33
10. ‘Garcilaso’s “Sedes ad cyprias”: a new source and a re-appraisal’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 96:5 (2019), 737–54. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2019.1628506
Book Chapters
11. ‘Black Agency and the Black Body as Concepto in a Seventeenth-Century Festival (Barcelona, 1601)’, in The Cultural Agency and Limits of Black Africans in Early Modern Iberia: A Comparative Approach (Routledge), submitted to editors.
12. ‘Arias Montano and Biblical Humanist Writing’, in the Routledge Companion to the Literature of the Spanish Golden Age (Routledge), submitted to editors.
13. ‘Baroque Style in Some Iberian Neo-Latin Funerary Epigrams (and a poem by Cervantes)’, in An Ill-Shapen Pearl? The Neo-Latin Epigram in the Baroque (London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2026).
14. ‘Sor Ana de la Trinidad y Cecilia del Nacimiento, ¿lectoras de Francisco de Aldana?’, in Entre el silencio y la palabra: erudición y escritura en el Carmelo de la Edad Moderna (Madrid: Colección Casa de Velázquez, forthcoming).
15. ‘A Newly Discovered Poem Attributed to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza’, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza e l’Italia (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2025).
16.‘The Biblical Lyric of Benito Arias Montano in its European and Spanish Contexts’, Acta conventus neolatini (Leiden: Brill, 2024). ISBN: 9789004695573.
Multi-edited works
(Ed.) Odes IV and V, in Eugenia Fosalba (dir.) et al., Soledad amena: edición crítica y digital de la obra poética de Garcilaso de la Vega, online <https://pronapoli.com/soledadamena/>.