Mariano Siskind
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- siskind@fas.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617-495-9371
- Fax
- Department
- Romance Languages and Literatures
- School
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Regions of Interest
- Southern Cone
- Countries of Interest
- Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Chile
- Mailing Address
- Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Harvard University 427 Boylston Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
- Office Location
- 427 Boylston Hall
- Research Interest
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, Travel Writing, Histories and Theories of Globalization, Marxism, Deconstruction, Critical Articulations of Literature and Philosophy.
- Web Page
- http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rll/people/faculty/siskind.html
- Courses
- Latin American Studies 70. Introduction to Latin American Studies. Spanish 90q. Displaced Subjectivities: Travel Writing in the Americas Spanish 154. Imaginaries of Emancipation, Nationhood and Civil War in the Nineteenth Century Spanish 240. Latin American Modernity and the Discourses of Globalization
- Publications
-
Poéticas de la distancia: adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina. (Co-edited with Sylvia Molloy) Buenos Aires: Norma. Forthcoming, October 2006.
“Universalismo, particularismo y la cuestión de la modernidad latinoamericana: El debate entre Rubén Darío y Paul Groussac”. La Biblioteca, 2006.
“Imágenes de Sudamérica en dos textos de Joseph Conrad”. In Melville y Conrad desde el Río de la Plata. Ed. Beatriz Vegh.
“Entrevista a Sergio Chejfec”. Hispamérica. Año XXXIV, número 100, Abril 2005.
“Captain Cook and the discovery of