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Michael K. Schuessler is professor of humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana , Cuajimalpa, in Mexico City, where he teaches courses dedicated to Latin American art and literature, pre-Columbian Mexico, and colonial Mexico. He received his PhD in Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of California , Los Angeles, where he specialized in the literature and arts of colonial Latin America, particularly New Spain (Mexico). He has written many articles devoted to the interpretation of Latin American literature and culture and is the author of several books, including La undécima musa: Guadalupe Amor and Elena Poniatowska : An Intimate Portrait. In 2006, University of Texas Press published his edition of Alma Reed’s lost autobiography, entitled Peregrina: Love and Death in Mexico. In December 2010 he published a collaborative volume on gay culture in Mexico—the first of its kind—entitled México se escribe con jota: Una historia de la cultura gay. He recently, with Amparo Gómez Tepexicuapan, published a scholarly edition of the correspondence between Alma Reed and Felipe Carrillo Puerto, entitled “Tuyo hasta que me muera”: Epistolario de Alma Reed (Pixan Halal) y Felipe Carrillo Puerto (H´pil Zultuché): Marzo a diciembre de 1923, with Mexico’s CONACULTA. He is currently at work on a book of “documentary fiction” concerning the lives and activities of a group of foreigners in post-revolutionary Mexico. About the Author ...

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