Enrique Sacerio-Garí

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.

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
CitizenshipAmerican
Occupation(s)Professor and author
SpouseDiana Gibson (1980-present)
Children2
Academic background
Alma materYale University, Ph.D.
ThesisBorges: una literatura intertextual
Academic work
DisciplineHispanic Studies
Sub-disciplineHispanic-American Studies
InstitutionsBryn Mawr College

Early life and education

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 Ph.D. 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

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
  • 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). doi:10.2307/2906630 – 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.
  • Sacerio-Garí, Enrique (1984-03-16). "El despertar de la forma en la poesía concreta". Revista Iberoamericana: 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). ISSN 0018-2133 – 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
  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. "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.
  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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