DIVERSIFYING THE CLASSICS: HISPANIC CLASSICAL THEATER FOR LOS ANGELES AUDIENCES

Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA, where she also directs the Center for 17th-and 18th- Century Studies and the Clark Memorial Library. A comparatist by training, she specializes in literature and empire in the early modern period. Her recent books include Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain (Penn 2009) and The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature (Penn 2013). She is one of the editors for the Norton Anthology of World Literature. She has also published translations of Cervantes’ plays of captivity and of early modern Spanish Moorish tales, and directs the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance at UCLA.

Speaker(s): Barbara Fuchs

Event Type: Lecture

Date and Time: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 4:00pm

Location: Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Intercultural Center, 700, 37th and O