[5] 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.
[6] 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.
[8][9][10] In 2013, he published the monograph Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America (Northwestern University Press).
[11][12][13][14] 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."
Controversies In 2019 he was also responsible of notifying ethnic studies scholar Lorgia García Peña that her tenure was denied by Harvard University[15] even though he later stated that he disagreed with that decision[16] in a high-profile case that sparked media outrage and protests against a possibly discriminatory decision against Latinas[17]