Michael Schuessler

Michael Schuessler is an independent scholar and professor of Humanities at Mexico’s Metropolitan Autonomous University. He is the author of the biographies La undécima musa: Guadalupe Amor [The eleventh muse: Guadalupe Amor] (1995), El universo de sor Juana [Sor Juana’s universe] (1995), and Elenísima: ingenio y figura de Elena Poniatowska (2003), which was written in collaboration with Poniatowska and was later published in English by the University of Arizona Press as Elena Poniatowska: an Intimate Biography. His most recent book is Perdidos en la traducción: cinco extranjeros ilustres en el México del siglo XX [Lost in translation: five illustrious foreigners in 20^th-century Mexico].