Office Hours: Spring 2012
M: 10-11
W: 11-12
and by appointment

Research and Teaching

Professor Maurer writes about Spanish poetry from Garcilaso to the so-called Generación del 27. Three of his major research interests are biography, textual criticism, and poetry’s relations with music and painting. His first book was a biography and edition of the bilingual (Italian/Spanish) sixteenth-century poet Francisco de Figueroa, and two of his most recent study El Cristo de Velázquez by Unamuno and  tell the life of a remarkable American painter and writer: Fortune’s Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson.Federico García Lorca y su ‘Arquitectura del cante jondo’ explores the flamenco tradition in Lorca’s aesthetics, and another book, written with María Estrella Iglesias, follows an individualistic Southern family of potters, painters and poets from 1900 to the present: Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater.

Prof. Maurer is the editor of García Lorca’s Collected Poems and Selected Verse;his lectures (Conferencias); his early prose (Prosa inédita de juventud), and editor, with Andrew A. Anderson, of García Lorca’s complete letters (Epistolario). His translated books include Lorca’s Deep Song and Other Prose, In Search of Duende, and A Season in Granada, a collection of letters between Lorca and Salvador Dalí (Sebastian’s Arrows published by Swan Isle Press), a popular translation of The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián, an anthology of Gracián’s other writings (A Pocket Mirror for Heroes) and works by Juan Ramón Jiménez (The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work). He is the translator, with Ben Heller of Running Back Through the Rain, by Chilean Raúl Barrientos and the author of editions (Pelicans) and articles about the American painter Walter Inglis Anderson, including collaboration on the catalogue of Anderson’s work exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution. His biography of Anderson won the 2003 Eudora Welty Award and the Non Fiction Prize of the Mississippi Academy of Arts and Letters. Maurer is a Miembro Correspondiente of the Real Academia Española.

Prof. Maurer offers introductory and advanced courses on early-modern and modern Spanish literature. His recent seminars have studied García Lorca, the 20th-century reception of Baroque authors in Spain and Latin America, and biography and textual criticism.