#  Mariano Siskind 

On Leave Academic Year 2025-26

Smith Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature

 

 

 



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 location\_on Boylston 327 

 email <siskind@fas.harvard.edu> 

Office Hours: Mondays 5:00pm-6:00pm and by appointment

 

 



 

**Research Interests:** 19th- and 20th-Century Latin American Literature; Travel Writing; Globalization and Cosmopolitanism; Marxism; Psychoanalysis

**Academic Degrees:** B.A. in Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; M.A., Ph.D., in Comparative Literature, New York University

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##  Courses Taught 

 



### Fall, 2026

  [### SPANISH 194 - The Borges Machine

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2026 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-108752/2026/fall/17769) 

 

  



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

- ## Department Role
    
     [Faculty](/people/role/faculty) [Spanish Faculty](/people/role/spanish-faculty)
- ## Language
    
     [Spanish](/language/spanish)
- ## Research Interest
    
     [19th Century](/research-interest/19th-century) [20th Century](/research-interest/20th-century) [Literature](/research-interest/literature) [Latin American](/research-interest/latin-american) [Comparative Literature](/research-interest/comparative-literature)