{"id":1482,"date":"2019-08-27T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T20:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/?post_type=profile&p=1482"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:26:36","slug":"christopher-maurer","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/profile\/christopher-maurer\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Maurer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Professor Maurer writes about Spanish poetry from Garcilaso to the so-called Generaci\u00f3n del 27. Three of his major research interests are biography, textual criticism, and poetry\u2019s 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 his most recent, with Andrew A. Anderson,\u00a0Federico Garcia Lorca en Nueva York y La Habana: Cartas y recuerdos<\/a> (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2013).<\/div>\n
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Prof. Maurer is the editor of Garc\u00eda Lorca\u2019s\u00a0Collected Poems<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0Selected Verse; <\/em>his lectures (Conferencias<\/em>); his early prose (Prosa in\u00e9dita de juventud<\/em>), <\/em>and editor, with Andrew A. Anderson, of Garc\u00eda Lorca\u2019s complete letters (Epistolario completo<\/em>)<\/a>. <\/em>His translated books include Lorca\u2019s\u00a0Deep Song and Other Prose, <\/em>In Search of Duende<\/em><\/a>, and\u00a0A Season in Granada<\/em>, a collection of letters between Lorca and Salvador Dal\u00ed (Sebastian\u2019s Arrows <\/em><\/a>published by Swan Isle Press<\/a>), \u00a0The Art of Worldly Wisdom<\/em><\/a> by Baltasar Graci\u00e1n, an anthology of Graci\u00e1n\u2019s other writings (A Pocket Mirror for Heroes<\/em>) and works by Juan Ram\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez (The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work<\/em><\/a>) (Spanish translation\u00a0fall 2016, Madrid, Fundamentos). \u00a0His biography<\/a> of 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.<\/p>\n

He recently edited \u201cStreets and Dreams,\u201d<\/a> a digital humanities project mapping Lorca\u2019s movements in New York (1929-30) and co-curated, with Andres Soria Olmedo, the exhibition \u201cBack Tomorrow: Lorca, Poet in New York\u201d<\/a> at the New York Public Library. Maurer is a Miembro Correspondiente of the Real Academia Espa\u00f1ola.<\/p>\n

Prof. Maurer offers introductory and advanced courses on translation and on early-modern and modern Spanish literature. His recent seminars have studied the 20th-century reception of Baroque authors in Spain and Latin America, the uses of archives, the historical Avant-Garde, \u00a0and the intersection of lives and texts (biography and textual criticism.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9557,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1482\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}