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The Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature
invite you to a lecture by
Professor Mariano Siskind
(Harvard University)
“World War I as a Latin American event:
Modernismo and the question of cosmopolitan distance”
Monday, February 2, 2015, 4:00pm
Taper Hall of Humanities (THH) 113
University of Southern California
Mariano Siskind is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He teaches
19th and 20th century Latin American Literature with emphasis on its world literary relations, as well as the
production of cosmopolitan discourses and processes of aesthetic globalization. He is the author
of Cosmopolitan Desires. Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America (Northwestern UP, 2014) and editor
of Homi Bhabha's Nuevas minorías, nuevos derechos. Notas sobre cosmopolitimos vernáculos (2013) and Poéticas de la
distancia. Adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina (Norma, 2006) (together with Sylvia Molloy). He is finishing a
new monograph, World War Writing and the question of global distance. Latin American literature in the Great War
(Routledge, forthcoming in 2016).