Michael D. Aeschliman (born 21 February 1948) is a U.S.–Swiss educator, literary critic and scholar, Professor Emeritus at Boston University, Professor of Anglophone Culture at the Università della Svizzera italiana (University of Italian Switzerland) and Curriculum Advisor to The American School in Switzerland (TASIS) Foundation Board. He is one of the four sons of the Swiss-American Protestant minister, linguist, aviator, soldier, college professor, and writer Rev. Adrien R. Aeschliman (1899–1981) and Dorothy G. (Schumacher) Aeschliman (1919–2006). Aeschliman taught at the University of Virginia from 1985–1993. He was a very popular undergraduate teacher and in 1990 the University of Virginia student weekly newsmagazine “The Declaration” featured him as the ”Hottest/Coolest Male Professo