Doc. Mgr. Marie Škarpová, Ph.D., graduated in Czech language and literature and music education from Masaryk University in Brno and in Catholic theology from Palacký University in Olomouc. She published her Ph.D. thesis under the title „Mezi Čechy, k pobožnému zpívání náchylnými“. Šteyerův Kancionál český, kanonizace hymnografické paměti a utváření katolické identity [“Among the Czechs, Prone to Devotional Singing”: Šteyer's Czech Hymnbook, Canonizations of Hymnography Memory, and Performances of Catholic Identity] (Prague, 2015). From 2006 to 2010, she worked at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences, since 2006 she has been lectured on Czech medieval and early modern literature at the Institute of Czech and Comparative Literature of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2024 as an associate professor); she also lectured on Czech literature at Masaryk University in Brno (from 2001 to 2006) and the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (from 2011 to 2017).
In her research, she focuses on the literature of the Bohemian lands from the 16th to the 18th centuries – especially hagiography, and hymnology – and on the history of Czech national philology. She co-authored the book Patron Saints and Saintly Patronage in Early Modern Central Europe (Prague, 2019). She is also involved in editing; she is co-editor of Czech Baroque hymnbook Jesličky. Staré nové písničky [Crèche: Old New Songs] (Brno, 2012; with Pavel Kosek and Tomáš Slavický). Recently, she edited the correspondence from 1939 to 1972 between the specialists in Baroque studies Antonín Škarka and Dmitry Chyzhevsky under the title Příhodnější spojení není možné [A More Appropriate Connection Is Not Possible] (Prague, 2024; as supervisor of student editor team). She is a member of the editorial board of the Institute for the literary studies (https://ipsl.cz).