Dr. Barbara Fuchs

Biography

Barbara Fuchs is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a joint appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She holds a combined B.A./M.A. in Comparative Literature from Yale University, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University, awarded in 1997. Fuchs specializes in Early Modern English and Spanish literature, Mediterranean transatlantic studies, and themes related to literature and empire, transnationalism, literary history, race, and religion in the early modern world. She has notable works including 'Mimesis Empire: New World, Islam, European Identities' (2001) and 'Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain' (2009). Fuchs is also involved in teaching initiatives like the 'Diversifying Classics' project and has edited significant anthologies in world and Western literature. Her extensive experience includes faculty positions at the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania and a Guggenheim Fellowship focusing on the construction of Moorishness in Spain.

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