Enrique Sacerio-Garí (born 2 October 1945) is a Cuban-American author and was professor of Spanish at

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from 1977 to 2022. He is most well-known for his poetry and his academic work on

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Early life and education

Sacerio-Garí was born in 1945 in Sagua La Grande in Cuba. He immigrated from Cuba to the United States in 1959. In Sagua, he studied at the Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, Academia Rivero and Academia José Martí. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.A in Spanish from the

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, and he attained a PhD from

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with a thesis on the literature of Jorge Luis Borges. He was naturalized in 1977. Since 1979, he has travelled back to Cuba multiple times. He is married to Diana G. Sacerio, a professor of Spanish at The Baldwin School and former professor at Franklin & Marshall and

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. They have a daughter and a son.

Career

Sacerio-Garí is the Dorothy Nepper Marshall Professor Emeritus of Hispanic and Hispanic-American Studies at Bryn Mawr College. He has written multiple books, participated in international conferences, and given talks in Latin America and Europe on contemporary and historical Cuban culture. He has done extensive academic work on the life and literature of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. He has also translated works of Latin American literature into the English language. 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. He founded and directed Bryn Mawr College's tutoring program at Catholic Social Services in Chester, Pennsylvania. He served on the Board of Directors of the Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County 1993–1999. In 2011, he signed a letter of solidarity in support for Occupy Philadelphia along with other local professors and educators.

Selected works

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References

External links

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Presentation of Para llegar a la Habana in Barcelona
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on YouTube {{Authority control, qid=Q121450844 1945 births American writers of Cuban descent People from Sagua la Grande Yale University alumni Jorge Luis Borges American academics Living people