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Expertise
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Work
Work
Books
Co-edited, compiled and published:
Reinaldo Arenas, Libro de Arenas. Mexico: Conaculta/Ediciones del Equilibrista [December 2013] (co-editor E. M. SantÃ) a critical edition of previously uncollected prose (literary essays, reviews, open letters, lectures.) by Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas [1943-1990], with two critical introductions, 420 pp.
Co-edited critical edition:
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Tres tristes tigres [Three Trapped Tigers] Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2010. [Co-editor E. M. SantÃ] Critical edition of the 1967 novel; established text, critical introductions, bibliography, critical apparatus, including maps, over one thousand annotations, and variants from the Franco-era censored manuscript; in addition to the annotations; 677 pages.]
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, InfanterÃa. [with critical introductions; co-editor E. M. SantÃ]. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999, 1,114 pages.
Creative work and Translations:
“’Islofobia’ y ‘La mÃstica del equilibrio’†(essays from Memorias mÃnimas). Diario de Cuba (digital magazine), May 3, 2019.
“Four Poems on Exile†(original unpublished poems). Camino Real [a peer- reviewed and multidisciplinary publication of the Instituto Franklin de Investigación en Estudios Norteamericanos-Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain], 7:10 (Fall 2015): 179-186.
“Memorias mÃnimas†(fragments from autobiographical work in progress). Diario de Cuba [web], October 29, 2015.
“Cariño cubano/Cuban Affection†[from Mi música en otra parte],†Trans. By Suzanne Jill Levine. The International Literary Quarterly [www.interlitq.org] 17 (2 January 2012).
Mi música en otra parte [Collection of poems]. Madrid: Verbum, 2001. [Reviewed in: °ä²¹±ô¾±²µ°ù²¹´Úò¹²õ 2 (2002): 66-75; El Nuevo Herald, 30 June 2002:3E; Caribe 6.2 (2003-04): 135-38; Hispanic Poetry Review 7.1 (2007): 110-12.]
Book Chapters:
“Más allá de la isla: postnacionalismo en el mapa identitario de una exiliada.†In Identidad y postnacionalismo en la cultura cubana. Eds. Laura P. Alonso Gallo and Belén
Rodriguez Mourelo. Valencia: Aduana Vieja, 2019 (presented in Miami’s Intl. Book Fair November 2019).
“The Space of Absence in Guillermo Cabrera Infante.†In La escritura ecológica y meta-final de Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Ed. Claudia Hammerschmidt. Potsdam-London: INOLAS Publishers LTD, 2017. [a study of Infante’s Inferno (1979) and View of Dawn in the Tropics (1971)] 37-64.
“Three Trapped Tigers (Guillermo Cabrera Infante).†In Cuba: Its History and Its People. Ed. Alan West-Durán. Detroit, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2012. 987-991 [a study of Cabrera Infante’s masterpiece and its place in the Latin American literary canon].
“Paisajes del recuerdo: La Habana de Guillermo Cabrera Infante†[expanded version of “Cuerpos de Cubaâ€]. In Guillermo Cabrera Infante: el subterfugio de la palabra. Ed. Humberto López Cruz. Madrid: Editorial Hispano Cubana, 2009. 109-25.
Book Reviews and Â鶹´«Ã½paper Articles:
“Norberto y sus fuentes en la cultura cubana.†Review article of book (Plaza sitiada: un libro para los enemigos 2018) that revisits the well-known 1971 Padilla Affair that divided the international intellectual community after a Cuban poet was apprehended and jailed for his poems and made to recant in public, Diario de Cuba, October 8, 2018.
“De las UMAP a la 'Mariconga'.†Review article of documentary film on Mariela Castro, Cuba and Homophobia, Diario de Cuba, November 30 2016 (digital journal covering all aspects of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora).
“Zenaida Manfugás: la fuga de una divina diva.†Diario de Cuba (digital magazine), Música, Madrid, 5 May 2012.
“Entre el recuerdo y la memoria: dos visiones de la historia.†Diario de Cuba (digital magazine), Cultura, Madrid, 2 January 2012.
1999 Lecture at Pomona: Orientation Week Distinguished Faculty Lecture [on Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez’ novel Yo]: “The Call of the Isles: Personal Reflections on Julia Alvarez’s Yo,†August 1999.
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
University of Kentucky, Research Grant, 2001
“Imagining Cuba.†Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowship in the Humanities. Research on Cuban History, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, Miami, FL, Summer 1997.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Grant. [Research on Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ.], 1987
Wig Distinguished Teaching Award, Â鶹´«Ã½'s highest teaching award, 1984