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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sacerio and the second or maternal family name is Garí.
Enrique Sacerio-Garí
Born
Enrique de los Ángeles Sacerio Garí

2 October 1945
Sagua la Grande, Las Villas, Cuba
Occupation(s)Professor and author
Academic background
Alma materYale University, PhD
ThesisBorges: una literatura intertextual
Academic work
DisciplineHispanic Studies
Sub-disciplineHispanic-American Studies
InstitutionsBryn Mawr College

Enrique Sacerio-Garí (born 2 October 1945)[1][2] is a Cuban-American author and was professor of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College from 1977 to 2022. He is most well-known for his poetry[3] and his academic work on Jorge Luis Borges.

Early life and education

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Sacerio-Garí was born in 1945 in Sagua La Grande in Cuba.[4] He immigrated from Cuba to the United States in 1959.[5] In Sagua, he studied at the Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Jesús,[6] Academia Rivero and Academia José Martí. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.A in Spanish from the University of Connecticut, and he attained a PhD from Yale University with a thesis on the literature of Jorge Luis Borges.[7] He was naturalized in 1977.[8] Since 1979, he has travelled back to Cuba multiple times.[9]

He is married to Diana G. Sacerio, a professor of Spanish at The Baldwin School and former professor at Franklin & Marshall[10] and Rosemont College. They have a daughter and a son.[11][12]

Career

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Sacerio-Garí is the Dorothy Nepper Marshall Professor Emeritus of Hispanic and Hispanic-American Studies at Bryn Mawr College.[13] He has written multiple books, participated in international conferences,[14] and given talks in Latin America and Europe on contemporary and historical Cuban culture.[15][16][17][18] He has done extensive academic work on the life and literature of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.[19] He has also translated works of Latin American literature into the English language.[20][21][7]

He has helped coordinate cultural exchanges for students and scholars to travel to Cuba both before and after Obama's normalization of relations with Cuba.[22][23] He founded and directed Bryn Mawr College's tutoring program at Catholic Social Services in Chester, Pennsylvania.[24] He served on the Board of Directors of the Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County 1993–1999.[25] In 2011, he signed a letter of solidarity in support for Occupy Philadelphia along with other local professors and educators.[26]

Selected works

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  • Sacerio Garí, Enrique (1976). Comunión: [a concrete poem]. Hamden, CT : R.H. Norton Company.
  • Neruda, Pablo (1977). Ode to Typography. Translated by Sacerio-Garí, Enrique. Torrance: Labyrinth Editions.
  • Sacerio-Garí, Enrique (Mar 1980). "Towards Pierre Menard". Modern Language Notes. 2 (95): 460–471. doi:10.2307/2906630. JSTOR 2906630 – via JSTOR.
  • Sacerio-Garí, Enrique (1981). Poemas interreales (in Spanish). Poetic Solutions. ISBN 9780972575706.
  • Sacerio-Garí, Enrique (1983). "The Double Intuition of Borges/Wells". Comparative Literature Studies. 20 (3): 305–316. ISSN 0010-4132. JSTOR 40246406.
  • Sacerio-Garí, Enrique (1984-03-16). "El despertar de la forma en la poesía concreta". Revista Iberoamericana. 50 (126): 165–174. doi:10.5195/reviberoamer.1984.3868. ISSN 2154-4794.
  • Sacerio-Garí, Enrique; Rodríguez Monegal, Emir (1986). Jorge Luis Borges / Textos cautivos : ensayos reseñas en "El Hogar" (in Spanish). Barcelona: Tusquets Editores.
  • Sacerio-Garí, Enrique (1987). "Las flores de Borges en García Márquez". Hispania (in Portuguese). 70 (1): 62–66. doi:10.2307/343649. ISSN 0018-2133. JSTOR 343649 – via JSTOR.
  • Sacerio-Garí, Enrique (1999). Poemas interreales. Ediciones Endymion. ISBN 8477313199.
  • Sacerio-Gari, Enrique; Hortas, Carlos R. (2006). "Volume 54 / Humanities: 20th Century Prose Fiction: Hispanic Caribbean". Library of Congress. Retrieved 14 Aug 2023.
  • Burnt Sugar, Caña quemada (Contributor) (in Spanish). Cork: Free Press. 2006.[27]
  • Sacerio-Garí, Enrique (2004). Poemas interreales. Editorial Letras Cubanas. ISBN 9591009739.
  • Sacerio-Gari, Enrique (2007). "Poems". Diálogo. 10 (1) – via DePaul University.
  • Sacerio Garí, Enrique (2013). Para llegar a La Habana. Poesía (in Spanish). Madrid: Bartleby. ISBN 978-84-92799-60-2.
  • Sacerio-Garí, Enrique (2016). El mercado de la memoria (in Spanish). Madrid: 9788477315933. ISBN 9788477315933.[28]

References

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  1. ^ Maratos, Daniel C.; Hill, Marnesba D. (1986). Cuban Exile Writers. A biobibliographic handbook. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press.
  2. ^ The National Archives at Washington, D.c.; Washington, D.c.; Series Title: Passenger and Crew Manifests of Airplanes Arriving At Miami, Florida.; NAI Number: 2788541; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 – 2004; Record Group Number: 85
  3. ^ Martin, Lydia (1 Oct 2006). "True, pure visions of contemporary Cuban poetry". Miami Herald. pp. 7–C. Retrieved 10 Sep 2023.
  4. ^ "Entrevista con el poeta cubano (y sagüero) Enrique Sacerio-Garí". Paperblog (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  5. ^ Ciccarelli, Maura C. (11 Feb 1985). "Group gets inside look at Central America". Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 4–M. Retrieved 15 Aug 2023.
  6. ^ "Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Jesús" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-10.
  7. ^ a b "Enrique Sacerio-Garí – Festival de Literatura de Copenhague" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  8. ^ The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; Indexes to Naturalization Petitons For United States District Courts, Connecticut, 1851–1992 (M2081); Microfilm Serial: M2081; Microfilm Roll: 16
  9. ^ Medina, Daniel A. (2014-12-25). "In Cuba, some still remember three decades of "silent Christmases"". Quartz. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  10. ^ "Named to F&M Faculty". Intelligencer Journal. 14 Jul 1980. p. 32. Retrieved 15 Aug 2023.
  11. ^ "Births". Philadelphia Inquirer. 15 Oct 1984. pp. 17–M. Retrieved 15 Aug 2023.
  12. ^ "Births". Philadelphia Inquirer. 2 Jun 1991. pp. 23–M. Retrieved 15 Aug 2023.
  13. ^ "The Other Borges: A Precursor from the Future – Religion Online". Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  14. ^ "USC hosts conference on 'Latin America in the '90s'". Pueblo Chieftain. 25 Oct 1994. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  15. ^ "Cuban poet, scholar Sacerio-Gari to make presentations at ISU". Idaho State University. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  16. ^ "Devon Prep's Spanish Nat'l Honor Society". Delco Times. 2009-01-13. Retrieved 2023-08-15.[permanent dead link]
  17. ^ "Cuban Revolutionary Cinema | Maluala | Cinema & Media Studies". cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  18. ^ "Presentación del libro "El mercado de la memoria", de Enrique Sacerio-Gari". www.unizar.es. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  19. ^ Ardila, Garrido; Antonio, Juan (2017). Borges and the hermeneutics of the novel. Bucknell University Press. ISBN 978-1-61148-857-9.
  20. ^ "Our America by José Martí The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition".
  21. ^ "Our America by José Martí Study Guide The Heath Anthology of American Literature".
  22. ^ "A Study in Diplomacy: Peace Mission Students Visit Cuba".
  23. ^ "SUNY Cortland Professor Visits Cuba". readme.readmedia.com. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  24. ^ Hardy, Dan (15 Oct 1992). "Helping Hispanic Children Learn". Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 6–DC. Retrieved 10 Sep 2023.
  25. ^ "Enrique Sacerio-Garí CV" (PDF).
  26. ^ "Letter of Solidarity from Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College and Haverford College Faculty Members | Newslanc.com". newslanc.com. 2011-11-04. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  27. ^ Domínguez, Carlos Espinosa (9 Apr 2006). "Muchos versos, pero poca poesía". www.cubaencuentro.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  28. ^ "Comentarios sobre: El Mercado de la memoria" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-12.
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