Barbara Fuchs

Barbara Fuchs is a professor in the departments of English and also Spanish and Portuguese, as well as director of the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and UCLA Clark Library. Fuchs is an expert in early modern Spanish and English literature. Trained in comparative literature (English, Spanish, French, Italian), Fuchs’ scholarship has forcued on European cultural production from the late 15th through the 17th centuries, with a special emphasis on literature and empire. Her research has also focused on race and religion in the early modern world

Fuchs also directs the UCLA Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance. Her most recent books are “The Poetics of Piracy,” (Penn Press 2013) a study of the occlusion of Spain in English literary history and, with Aaron Ilika and Larissa Brewer-García, The Abencerraje and “Ozmin and Daraxa,” (Penn Press 2014) a translation and critical edition of two maurophile novellas. Current projects include a book on the picaresque and the limits of Spain, a Norton Critical Edition of Spanish Golden Age theater, and a translation of the newly rediscovered Lope de Vega play Mujeres y criados.