Christopher Maurer

Curriculum Vitae

Personal:

Rank: Professor of Spanish

Address:
Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese m/c 315
University of Illinois at Chicago
Room 1731 University Hall
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7117

Phone: (312) 996-3235
Fax: (312) 413-1044
Email: cmaurer@uic.edu

Education:
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, l982
M.A. University of Pennsylvania, l978
B.A. Columbia University, l976


Publications:

Books and Editions
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A) Books and CD-Rom:

with María E. Iglesias, Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Art and Love at Shearwater
(Doubleday, October 2000)

Federico García Lorca y su ‘Arquitectura del cante jondo', Granada, Editorial Comares,  in press.

Federico García Lorca, 1898-1936 (CD-ROM. Madrid: Imago Mundi/Fundación Federico García Lorca, 1998.) Information at: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/vupress/lorca.htm

Obra y vida de Francisco de Figueroa. Madrid: Istmo, l988.

B) Textbook:

Christopher Maurer and María Estrella Iglesias, Temas: Invitación  a la literatura hispánica. Boston:
Houghton-Mifflin, l993 (introductory literature textbook).

C) Editions:

Prados, Emilio. Mosaico. C. Maurer, María Paz Pintané, Anne Connor, eds. Madrid: Ediciones Calambur.

Federico García Lorca, Epistolario completo. Ed. Christopher Maurer and Andrew A. Anderson. Part I (640 pp.):
Ed., intro., notes. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra. 1997. 938 pp.

Pedro Salinas de viva voz. "Mundo real y mundo poético" y dos entrevistas olvidadas.  Valencia:
Pre-Textos, 1996.

___, Poet in New York. Tr. Greg Simon, Steven F. White. Intro., ed., notes. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, l988.
276 pp.British edition: Viking/Penguin, l990. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics (paperback ed., l990) Revised 2nd ed.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Federico García Lorca escribe a su familia desde Nueva York y La Habana. Madrid: Poesía (Ministerio de Cultura),
l986. Ed., intro, notes, essays.

Federico García Lorca, How a City Sings From November to November. San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, l984.
Bilingual critical edition, intro., notes.

___, Conferencias. 2 vols. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, l984. Edition, intro., notes.

D) Books Edited and Translated:

Federico García Lorca, A Season in Granada. Uncollected Poems and Prose. London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1998.
---. In Search of Duende. New York: New Directions, 1998.

Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Complete Perfectionist. A Poetics of Work. New York: Doubleday
Currency, 1997.

Baltasar Gracián, A Pocket Mirror for Heroes. New York: Doubleday
Currency, 1996.

___, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle. New York: Doubleday/Currency, l99l.
Translation and introduction.

Mario Hernández, Line of Light and Shadow: The Drawings of Federico García Lorca.
Durham: Duke University Press, l99l.

Francisco García Lorca, In the Green Morning. New York: New Directions, l986.

Federico García Lorca, Deep Song and Other Prose. New York: New Directions, l980. Ed., intro., notes.

Federico García Lorca. Prosa inédita de la juventud. Intro., ed., notes. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 1995.

___, Selected Verse.  Ed., intro., notes. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995.

___, Collected Poems. Ed., intro, translations, notes. New York:  Farrar, Straus & Giroux, l99l.
 

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Spanish poetry of the 16th, 17th, and 20th centuries
Golden Age Spanish literature
Federico García Lorca
Poetry and painting in relation to literature
Translation
Biography

Last update:  August, 1998
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