Guillermo Sheridan

Guillermo Sheridan, Mexican scholar and writer, was born in Mexico City in 1950. As a scholar, most of his writing deals with the history of Mexican modernist poetry in books like "Los Contemporáneos ayer" (1985), "Un corazón adicto" (1990, a biography of Ramón López Velarde), "México en 1932" (a study of Mexican nationalism), and "Poeta con Paisaje" (2004, a biography of Nobel laureate poet Octavio Paz). He has also edited poets José Juan Tablada, Ramón López Velarde and José Gorostiza.

Guillermo Sheridan has written extensively about politics, education and everyday life in some of Mexico’s most prestigious newspapers, such as "Reforma" and "La Jornada". He was a monthly collaborator to Octavio Paz’s review "Vuelta", and continues to publish a monthly article in Enrique Krauze’s "Letras Libres". Several volumes of his chronicles have been published over the years: "Frontera norte" (1988), "Cartas de Copilco y otras postales" (1993), "Lugar a dudas" (1999) and "El encarguito" (2007). His writings about the problems of higher education in Mexico were collected in "Allá en el campus grande" (2001). In 1996 he published an infamous satyrical novel about Mexican politics, "El dedo de oro". (Ocampo, 2006)

Guillermo Sheridan has also written about Mexican art. The book "Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Eyes in His Eyes", a collection of inedit photographs, published by D.A.P. in 2007, has a text written by Sheridan.

Sheridan has also been a long time collaborator of film director Nicolás Echevarría, with whom he wrote the script for "Cabeza de Vaca" (1990) and several documentaries about Mexican indigenous cultures.

A full time professor and researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Guillermo Sheridan has been a visiting scholar at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, and at Boston University, in the United States.

References

Aurora Ocampo et al, "Diccionario de escritores mexicanos del siglo XX", vol. VII. México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2006. ISBN 970-32-3209-4.