Fuchs, Barbara
Professor
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Education

•Combined B.A./M.A. in Comparative Literature, summa cum laude, Yale University, 1992. •Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Stanford University, 1997.

Interests

Early Modern English and Spanish literature, Mediterranean and transatlantic studies, literature and empire, transnationalism and literary history, race and religion in the early modern world.

Selected Works

•Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities (2001)
•Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity (2003)
•Romance (2004)
•Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain (2009)
•The Bagnios of Algiers and The Great Sultana: Two Plays of Captivity, ed. and trans., with Aaron Ilika (2009)

She has also co-edited two special editions of MLQ, on Postcolonialism and the Past (2004) and Genre and History in Early Modern Studies (2006), and edited a special issue of Hispanic Review, on Re-envisioning Early Modern Iberia: Visuality, Materiality, History (2009).
She is an editor for the Norton Anthology of World Literature and the Norton Anthology of Western Literature.

Additional Information

Trained as a comparatist (English, Spanish, French, Italian), Prof. Fuchs works on European cultural production from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, with a special emphasis on literature and empire. Before UCLA, she taught at the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania. During 2006-2007, she held a Guggenheim Fellowship for her project on “Moorishness” and the conflictive construction of Spain. Prof. Fuchs is now working on the occlusion of Spain in English literary history and, with Aaron Ilika, on a translation and critical edition of two maurophile novellas, The Abencerraje and "Ozmin and Daraxa." She is a past editor of Hispanic Review and a member of UCLA's Department of Spanish & Portuguese.