Michael Schreffler
Michael Schreffler is Associate Professor of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he teaches course on art and architecture in Spain and Latin American from the sixteenth century to the present. He is the author of The Art of Allegiance: Visual Culture and Imperial Power in Baroque New Spain (2007) as well as numerous articles, such as “Emblems of Virtue in Eighteenth-Century New Spain,” in Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America (2006), “Vespucci Rediscovers America: The Pictorial Rhetoric of Cannibalism in Early Modern Culture,” Art History (2005) and “No Lord without Vassals, nor Vassals without a Lord,” Oxford Art Journal (2004). Dr. Schreffler received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Chicago in 2000 and has been the recipient of many fellowships, including a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002) and a J. William Fulbright Fellowship (1998). He is currently at work on a book about the symbolism of architecture in colonial Cuzco, Peru.
