Mariano Siskind
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Undergraduate Adviser in Latin American Studies)
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Degrees:
· B.A. in Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
· M.A., Ph.D. in Comparative Literature: New York University
Publications:
"Sarmiento y Darío en París, o el dilema de las modernidades marginales". Forthcoming in Revista Iberoamericana (2008).
"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.
Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, Travel Writing, Histories and Theories of Globalization, Marxism, Deconstruction, Critical Articulations of Literature and Philosophy.
Courses taught 2008-2009:
Latin American Studies 70. Introduction to Latin American Studies. (fall)
Romance Studies 181. Fictions of Marginality: Contemporary Italian and Latin American Literatures. Co-taught with Francesco Erspamer (spring)
Spanish 154. Travel Literature and Modernity in the 19th Century (note new title and description!) (spring)
Spanish 249. Cosmpolitan Desires: Intersecting Literature, Theory and Politics in Latin America (fall)
Other courses taught:
Spanish 90q. Displaced Subjectivities: Travel Writing in the Americas
Spanish 152. Experience and Experimentation in the Latin American Novel
Spanish 248. Modernity and Identity in Latin American Literature and Theory
For more information go to the Romance Languages and Literatures course catalogue.
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Last updated on June 10, 2008