Professor Maurer teaches and writes about Spanish poetry with special emphasis on poetry\u2019s relations with music and painting, translation, and textual criticism. He also teaches in Boston University\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>MFA program in Literary Translation<\/span><\/a>. His first book was a biography and edition of the sixteenth-century poet Francisco de Figueroa and two of his most recent are <\/span>Bello rel\u00e1mpago que dura: Moreno Villa y Jacinta<\/span><\/i><\/a> (2024) and <\/span>How a City Sings, From November to November: Lorca on Music <\/span><\/i><\/a>(Spring 2026).<\/span><\/p>\n Maurer is the editor of Garc\u00eda Lorca\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Collected Poems<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Selected Verse;\u00a0<\/span><\/i>his lectures (<\/span>Conferencias<\/span><\/i>); his early prose (<\/span>Prosa in\u00e9dita de juventud<\/span><\/i>)<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and editor, with Andrew A. Anderson, of Garc\u00eda Lorca\u2019s complete letters (<\/span>Epistolario completo<\/span><\/i>)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>His translated books include\u00a0<\/span>New Letters to a Young Poet<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0by Joan Margarit; Lorca\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Deep Song and Other Prose,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Finding Duende;<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>A Season in Granada;<\/span><\/i>\u00a0a collection of letters between Lorca and Salvador Dal\u00ed (<\/span>Sebastian\u2019s Arrows\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/a>published by Swan Isle Press), \u00a0<\/span>The Art of Worldly Wisdom<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0by Baltasar Graci\u00e1n; an anthology of Graci\u00e1n\u2019s other writings (<\/span>A Pocket Mirror for Heroes<\/span><\/i>);\u00a0<\/span>Running Back Through the Rain<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0(co-translated with Ben Heller) by Ra\u00fal Barrientos; and\u00a0<\/span>The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0by Juan Ram\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez (Spanish translation by Andr\u00e9s Soria Olmedo, 2016, Madrid, Fundamentos). His\u00a0<\/span>biography<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of American painter and writer Walter Inglis Anderson won the 2003 Eudora Welty Award and the Non Fiction Prize of the Mississippi Academy of Arts and Letters.<\/span><\/p>\n Maurer\u2019s digital humanities project\u00a0<\/span>\u201cStreets and Dreams\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0mapped Lorca\u2019s movements in New York (1929-30) and coincided with the exhibition \u201c<\/span>Back Tomorrow: Lorca, Poet in New York\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0at the New York Public Library, co-curated with Andr\u00e9s Soria Olmedo. In 2019, Maurer curated the exhibition and catalogue \u201c<\/span>Jard\u00edn deschecho:\u00a0 Lorca y el amor<\/span><\/a>\u201d at the Centro Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, Granada and in 2024-2025 the exhibition and catalogue <\/span>Lorca y el archivo: memoria en movimiento<\/span><\/i>, with Andrew A. Anderson and Melissa Dinverno.\u00a0 He is an Acad\u00e9mico Correspondiente of the Real Academia Espa\u00f1ola, \u2018Official\u2019 in the Orden de Isabel la Cat\u00f3lica, and Acad\u00e9mico Electo of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espa\u00f1ola.<\/span><\/p>\n Maurer\u2019s courses and seminars\u00a0have studied the 20th-century reception of Baroque authors in Spain and Latin America, the uses of archives, Spanish language poets in New York, contemporary adaptations of works by Lorca, the historical avant-garde, \u00a0and the intersection of lives and texts, with a focus on biography, epistolography, and textual criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27152,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11216\/revisions\/27152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}