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Mariano Siskind

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
On Leave 2009-2010

Office: Boylston Hall 427
Phone: (617) 495-9371
Fax: (617) 496-4682
Email: siskind@fas.harvard.edu
Office Hours: On Leave 2009-2010

 
Academic Degrees: Ph.D., M.A., in Comparative Literature: New York University; B.A. in Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina ·
Research Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, Travel Writing, Histories and Theories of Globalization, Marxism, Deconstruction, Critical Articulations of Literature and Philosophy.
Publications:
"Magical Realism and Postcolonial Writing". In Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming in 2010.

"The Globalization of the Novel and The Novelization of the Global. A Critique of World Literature". Forthcoming in Comparative Literature (Spring 2010).

"Paul Groussac: El escritor francés y la tradición (argentina)". In Historia Crítica de la Literatura Argentina. Vol. 10. Eds. Noé Jitrik and Alejandra Laera. Buenos Aires: Emecé. Forthcoming in 2009.

"Sarmiento y Darío en París, o el dilema de las modernidades marginales". Forthcoming in Revista Iberoamericana (Spring 2009).

"El cosmopolitismo como problema político: Borges y el desafio de la modernidad". Variaciones Borges 24 (October 2007).

Poeticas de la distancia. Adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina (Co-edited with Sylvia Molloy). Buenos Aires: Norma Grupo Editor, 2006.

“Universalismo, particularismo y la cuestión de la modernidad latinoamericana: El debate entre Rubén Darío y Paul Groussac”. La Biblioteca 4-5, December 2006, 352-362.

“Imágenes de Sudamérica en dos textos de Joseph Conrad”. In Melville y Conrad desde el Río de la Plata Edited by Beatriz Vegh. Montevideo: Linardi y Risso, 2006.

“Entrevista a Sergio Chejfec”. Hispamérica. Año XXXIV, número 100, Abril 2005.

“Captain Cook and the discovery of Antarctica’s modern specificity: Towards a critique of globalization”. Comparative Literature Studies. Penn State University. Vol.42, No.1. 2005.

“Viajeros culturales en Argentina (1928-1942)”. In Historia Crítica de la Literatura Argentina. Vol. 9. Eds. Noé Jitrik and María Teresa Gramuglio. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2002, 367-391. Co-authored with Gonzalo M. Aguilar.

“Images of South America in some texts of Joseph Conrad”. Conradiana. A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies. Texas Tech University. Vol. 33, Number 1, Spring 2001.

“Tradición y Re-escritura: la construcción de una identidad judía en algunos textos de Ana María Shua”. In The River of Dreams. Critical Approaches to the Work of Ana María Shua, Edited by Rhonda Buchanan. Washington D.C.: Interamer Collection, 2001.

Courses Offered in 2009-2010: On leave

Other Courses Offered:
[Freshman Seminar 42q. Cosmopolitanism and Globalization: A Latin American Perspective]
[Latin American Studies 70. Modernity, Culture and Politics in Latin America]
[Latin American Studies 98. Tutorial—Junior Year]
[Latin American Studies 99. Tutorial—Senior Year]
[Romance Studies 170. Fictions of Marginality: Italian and Latin American Novel and Film in the Age of Globalization]
[Spanish 152. Magical Realism and Its Discontent: Latin American Novels That Didn’t Boom]
[Spanish 154. Travel Literature and Modernity in the 19th Century
[Spanish 261. The Return of World Literature: Placing Latin America, Debating Universalism]

For more information go to the RLL course catalogue.
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Last updated on July 17, 2009