Enrico M. Santí

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Enrico M. Santí, from Cuba, earned his Ph.D. from Yale and holds the first William T. Bryan Endowed Chair in Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, where he has also served as Director of Graduate Studies. He has authored or edited sixteen books, including Bienes del siglo: Sobre cultura cubana; Por una politeratura: Literatura hispanoamericana e imaginación política; Pensar a José Martí: Notas para un centenario; Pablo Neruda: The Poetics of Prophecy; the Cátedra editions of Neruda’s Canto general and of Octavio Paz’ Laberinto de la soledad; a critical edition of Fernando Ortiz’ Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar; Ciphers of History: Latin American Readings for a Cultural Age; Fernando Ortiz: Contrapunteo y transculturación; and Infantería, a compilation of texts by Guillermo Cabrera Infante co-edited with Nivia Montenegro. Professor Santí serves on editorial boards of a dozen scholarly journals, among them Hispanic Review, the flagship of the field; and he serves on the Research Council of the Center for a Free Cuba, a Washington, D.C. think tank. In addition to a Guggenheim, Santí´s research has been supported over the years by fellowships from The Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society. For years he was one of the four rotating editors of the journal Cuban Studies, and produced a number of issues devoted to literature and culture. In 1996, Santí was named the youngest holder of the Emilio Bacardí Moreau Visiting Professorship of Cuban Studies at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, where he taught a seminar on "Literature and Film of the Cuban Republic". In 1998 the Southern California Institute of Cuba American Culture awarded him its highest award: the "Palma Espinada" Prize for life and career achievement. Santí is also a published poet, author of Son peregrino (1995), and a frequent art critic.

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Enrico M. Santí