Barbara Fuchs

Barbara Fuchs is a Distinguished Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA, trained as a comparatist specializing in early modern European literature from the late fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. She directs the Diversifying the Classics project and the LA Escena Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater, and has published extensively on literature and empire, Mediterranean and transatlantic studies, and theater and performance in transnational contexts. Her scholarly work includes books on picaresque literature, Cervantes, Spanish identity, and piracy in early modern literature.