Mariano Siskind

In 2013, he published the monograph Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America (Northwestern University Press). David Damrosch, professor at Harvard University, called it a "probing and highly original study," in which Siskind "stages a fascinating confrontation between peripheral cosmopolitanism and the discourse of world literature, both in modernist literary culture and in today's academic study." The book won an Honorable mention at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Southern Cone Section Book Prize.

Siskind published the novel Historia del Abasto (Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2007) and the poetry collection The Modernist Songbook (Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2021). In his literary works, he frequently deals with problems regarding displacement, cosmopolitanism, translation between languages, and the incorporation of world literature within the Argentine tradition.

As a scholar, Siskind works with nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature, travel writing, histories and theories of globalization and cosmopolitanism, Marxism and psychoanalysis. With Sylvia Molloy, he co-edited the volume Poéticas de la distancia: Adentro y afuera de la literatura Argentina (2006, Norma). He has also co-edited the volume World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality with Gesine Müller (De Gruyter, 2019) and translated Homi K. Bhabha to Spanish in the volume Nuevas Minorías, Nuevos Derechos (Siglo XXI, 2013).

Mariano Siskind (Buenos Aires, 1972) is an Argentine writer, scholar and poet. He is currently Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.