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 Collected Poems<\/a><\/em> and Selected Verse<\/em>; his lectures on music<\/a>; his early prose (Prosa in\u00e9dita de juventud<\/em>), and editor, with Andrew A. Anderson, of Garc\u00eda Lorca\u2019s complete letters (Epistolario completo<\/em><\/a>). His translated books include New Letters to a Young<\/em> Poet by Joan Margarit;<\/span>\u00a0Lorca\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 2025-2026 the exhibition and catalogue Lorca y el archive: memoria en movimiento<\/a><\/em>, with Andrew A. Anderson and Melissa Dinverno.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0He 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":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27151,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11216\/revisions\/27151"}],"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}]}}