Barbara Fuchs

Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her books include The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature and Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain, as well as the translations "The Abencerraje" and "Ozmin and Daraja": Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain and Cervantes's "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity, all of which are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.