Enrique Sacerio-Garí
Professor; senior major adviser
Ph.D. Yale University
Office: Thomas Hall 140
610-526-5081
esacerio@brynmawr.edu
Enrique Sacerio-Garí is the Dorothy Nepper Marshall Professor of Hispanic and Hispanic-American Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where he has taught since 1977. He is known especially for his work on Jorge Luis Borges, and for his poetry. His poetic works include: Comunión (a concrete poem) and Poemas interreales (Pennsylvania, 1981; Madrid, 1999; La Habana, 2004). Read interview after the presentation of this book in La Habana: http://www.lajiribilla.cu/2005/n197_02/197_14.html. He prepared for the Heath Anthology of American Literature a translation, introduction, notes and study guide to José Martí's "Nuestra América". He is also the translator of Pablo Neruda's Ode to Typography. He introduced and edited a selection of Jorge Luis Borges' early articles in the volume Textos cautivos, Ensayos y reseñas en El Hogar. He edited and translated Enrique Sosa Rodríguez's Ten Ways to Reach Cuba: Essays On Cuban Culture.
Professor Sacerio-Garí has also written on Rosario Castellanos, Gabriel García Márquez, José Lezama Lima, Brazilian concrete poetry, and Cuban detective fiction. He has been a contributing editor to the Library of Congress' Handbook of Latin American Studies. In January 1985, he led a fact-finding Peace Studies mission to Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In 1997, he taught a tri-college Peace Studies seminar, which included trips to Washington, Miami, and Cuba.