Rubén Darío
He has made important scholarly contributions to Hispanic literary modernism and has done extensive research on the end of the 19th century Hispanic. In this area, Acereda has studied the figure of the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, writing several scholarly books such as "Ruben Dario and the Poetics of Despair" and "Rubén Darío, poeta trágico". He has also coordinated and compiled several papers on this modernist author, such as his work "The Other Centennial" (El otro centenario): Rubén Darío y "Cantos de vida y esperanza" (Rubén Darío and "Songs of Life and Hope"), published in 2005 or "Homenaje a Rubén Darío." He also wrote two volumes of English translations of the poetry of Rubén Darío, prepared with U.S. researcher Professor Will Derusha: "Songs of Life and Hope. Rubén Darío", and "Selected Poems of Rubén Darío. A Bilingual Anthology". In 2005 he received the "International Rubén Darío Research Award" from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua and he was also honored with the "Distinguished Research Recognition" by the "Nicaraguan Institute of Hispanic Culture" at the Embassy of Spain in Nicaragua, and by the "Nicaraguan Royal Academy of the Spanish Language".