Guillermo Sheridan (August 27, 1950) is a Mexican scholar and writer, who was born in Mexico City. 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 and a weekly commentary in El Universal, a major daily newspaper. 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 (Alfaguara, 1996). He has a blog called "El Minutario", hosted by Letras Libres.

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; at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in France; at Boston University and at the University of Texas in Austin.

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