BARBARA FUCHS
Department of Spanish and Portuguese [email protected] Department of English office: 310.206.7915 5320 Rolfe Hall —Box 951532 fax: 310.206.4757 UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095
EDUCATION
1997 Stanford University: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. 1992 Yale University: Combined Bachelor of Arts/Master of Arts, summa cum laude. Major: Comparative Literature (English, French, and Spanish).
EMPLOYMENT
2011- UCLA. Center for 17th-and 18th-Century Studies/ William A. Clark Memorial Library, Director. 2009- UCLA. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of English. Professor. 2003-2009 University of Pennsylvania. Department of Romance Languages. Professor, 2006-. Associate Professor (with tenure), 2003-2006. Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, 5/2003-, Graduate Group in English, 1/2009-. 1997-2002 University of Washington. Department of English, Associate Professor (with tenure) 2001-2002, Assistant Professor 1997-2001. Division of Spanish and Portuguese, Adjunct Associate Professor, 2001-2002, Adjunct Assistant Professor, 1999-2001.
VISITING APPOINTMENTS Spring 2007 Seminar Leader, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library: “The Spanish Connection.”
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Editor, Hispanic Review, 2007-2009. Advisory Board, PMLA (2005-2008), Modern Language Quarterly, Exemplaria. Editorial Board, University of Pennsylvania Press (2004-2007), Hispanic Review (2003-2007). Acting Editor, Modern Language Quarterly, 2-8/2002 and 8/2003-4/2004. Reader, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Modern Language Quarterly, Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Hispanic Review, PMLA, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly, Viator. Reader, Routledge, Duke University Press, Cornell University Press, University Press of Florida, University of Minnesota Press, Princeton University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Penn State University Press, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Fuchs—2
University of Chicago Press, Ashgate, Palgrave, Edinburgh University Press, Yale University Press.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2012-13 UCHRI Extramural Explorations Grant for Theater at the Clark Library. 2011-12 Clark Professor, UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies. 2010-12 UCLA Faculty Research Grants for The Poetics of Piracy. 7/2010 NEH Institute, “Cultural Hybridities in the Medieval Mediterranean,” Barcelona. 2009-13 UCLA Mellon Grant for “Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms” lecture series, with Anna More. 2007-08 NEH Collaborative Research Grant for The Great Sultana and The Bagnios of Algiers, with Aaron Ilika. 2007-08 Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Faculty Research Fellowship for Exotic Nation. 2006-07 Guggenheim Fellowship for Exotic Nation. 2006-07 Penn University Research Foundation Award for Exotic Nation. 2005 Penn “Communication within the Curriculum” Course Development Grant for a “Speaking About” seminar. 2002 Honorable Mention, MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Studies for Mimesis and Empire. 2002-03 UW Humanities Center Award: EMERGE (Early Modern Research Group). 2001 UW Center for West European Studies Course Development Grant: “Anglo-Spanish Relations in the Early Modern Period.” 2002-03 UW Royalty Research Fund Award: “Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Limits of Spanish Identity.” 2001-02 UW Humanities Center Award: EMERGE (Early Modern Research Group). 1999-2000 UW Tools for Transformation Curriculum Development Award: “Literature and Colonialism.” 1998-99 UW Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship: “Mimesis and Empire.” Member, Society of Scholars. 1998 UW Center for West European Studies Course Development Grant: “Reading the Urban Experience.” 1995-96 Stanford Humanities Center Predoctoral Fellowship. 1992-97 Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities.
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature. Forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Paperback edition, 2011. Spanish translation, revised and edited: Una nación exótica. Madrid: Polifemo, 2011.
Romance. New Critical Idiom series. Routledge, 2004.
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Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity. Hispanisms 3. University of Illinois Press, 2003. Reprint: “Empire Unmanned: Gender Trouble and Genoese Gold in ‘Las dos doncellas,’” in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena Krstovic. Vol. 108. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2008. 33-44.
Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 40. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Paperback edition, 2004. Arabic translation in progress. Honorable Mention, MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Studies.
Translations
The Abencerraje and “Ozmin and Daraxa.” A translation of two maurophile novellas, with a critical introduction and notes, with Larissa Brewer-García and Aaron Ilika. University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2013.
The Bagnios of Algiers and The Great Sultana: Two Plays of Captivity. Edition and translation of two plays by Cervantes, with a critical introduction and notes, with Aaron Ilika. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Paperback edition, 2012.
Anthologies
Norton Anthology of World Literature, co-editor. Martin Puchner, General Editor. 2012.
Edited Collections
A Forgotten Empire: Spain and its North African Borderlands. A special issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, co-edited with Yuen-Gen Liang. Contributors: María Cruz de Carlos Varona, Andrew Devereux, Jocelyn Hendrickson, Javier Irigoyen-García, Miguel Martínez. Fall 2011.
The Spanish Connection. A special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies (10.1), based on my Folger Shakespeare Library seminar on England and Spain (Spring 2007), co-edited with Brian Lockey. Contributors: Elizabeth Bearden, Eva Botella Ordinas, Jason Eldred, Eric Griffin, Brian Lockey, Miguel Martínez, María Pando Canteli. Spring/Summer 2010.
Re-envisioning Early Modern Iberia: Visuality, Materiality, History. A special issue of Hispanic Review (77.1). Contributors: Laura Bass, Karina Galperín, Enrique García-Santo-Tomás, Ricardo Padrón, Elizabeth Wright, Amanda Wunder. February 2009.
Genre and History in Early Modern Studies. A special issue of Modern Language Quarterly (67.1), co-edited with Marshall Brown. Contributors: Marina Brownlee, Roger Chartier, Timothy Hampton, Heather James, David Quint, David Harrison Sacks. March 2006.
Postcolonialism and the Past. A special issue of Modern Language Quarterly (65.3), co-edited with David J. Baker. Contributors: Mary Louise Pratt, Roland Greene, Robert Markley, John Dagenais, Irad Malkin, Lisa Lampert, Deepika Bahri. Sept. 2004.
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Contributions to Books
“Cardenio.” “Piracy.” The Greenwood Shakespeare Encyclopedia, ed. Patricia Parker. Forthcoming, Greenwood, 2012.
“Middleton and Spain,” in The Oxford Handbook to Thomas Middleton, ed. Gary Taylor. Oxford, 2012.
“Influence, Appropriation, Piracy: The Place of Spain in English Literary History,” in Roze Hentschell and Katherine Lavagnino, eds. Laureations: Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson, U. of Delaware Press, 2012.
“Religion and National Distinction in the Early Modern Atlantic,” in Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster, eds., Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
“Maurophilia and the Morisco Subject,” in Kevin Ingram, ed., The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond: Departures and Changes (Brill, 2009). 269-285.
“Italia la pluma: ironía e imperio en las Novelas ejemplares,” in Georgina Dopico Black and Franscisco Layna, eds., U.S.A. Cervantes. 39 Cervantistas en Estados Unidos, Polifemo, 2009. 517-34.
“Sketches of Spain: Early Modern England’s ‘Orientalizing’ of Iberia,” in Symbolic and Material Circulations between England and Spain, 1554-1604, ed. Anne J. Cruz. Ashgate, 2008. 63-70.
“The Spanish Race,” in Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Racism in the Renaissance Empires. Eds. Margaret Greer, Walter Mignolo, and Maureen Quilligan. University of Chicago Press, 2007. 88-98.
“A Mirror Across the Water: Mimetic Racism, Hybridity, and Cultural Survival,” in Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, 1492-1763, Gary Taylor and Philip Beidler, eds. Palgrave, 2005. 9-26.
“Learning from Spain: The Case of the Irish Moriscos,” in Imperialisms: Historical and Literary Investigations, 1500-1900, eds. Elizabeth Sauer and Balachandra Rajan. Palgrave, 2004. 33-52. Vol. translated into Turkish as Emperyalizmin Yedi Rengi [The Seven Colours of Imperialism]. Tercüme Eda Ozgül (Istanbul: Kure Yayinlari, 2006).
“Imperium Studies: Theorizing Early Modern Expansion,” in Postcolonial Moves: Medieval through Modern, Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren, eds. Palgrave, 2003. 71-90.
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Articles
“No Field is an Island: Postcolonial and Transnational Approaches to Early Modern Drama,” Renaissance Drama, forthcoming 2012.
“Golden Ages and Golden Hinds, or, Periodizing Spain and England,” PMLA, March 2012.
“Dismantling Heroism: the Exhaustion of War in Don Quijote,” PMLA 124.5 (October 2009):1842-46.
“Beyond the Missing Cardenio: Anglo-Spanish Relations in Early Modern Drama.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Winter 2009: 143-159.
“‘La grandeza mexicana’ de Balbuena y el imaginario de una ‘metrópoli colonial,’” with Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Otros estudios transatlánticos: Lecturas desde lo latinoamericano, Revista Iberoamericana, n. 228, vol. 75 (Jul.-Sept. 2009): 675-95.
“Don Quijote I and the Forging of National History.” Modern Language Quarterly 68.3, September 2007: 395-416. Reprinted in Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Spanish Studies: Essays in Memory of Carroll B. Johnson, Sherry Velasco, ed. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2008.
“1492 and the Cleaving of Hispanism,” Medieval/Renaissance: After Periodization, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37.3, Fall 2007: 493-510.
“Traveling Epic: Translating Ercilla’s La Araucana in the Old World.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36.2, Spring 2006: 379-395.
“Cervantes y las ficciones de la identidad,” Cervantismos americanos, Insula 697-698, Jan-Feb. 2005: 11-15.
“In Memory of Moors: ‘Maurophilia’ and National Identity in Early Modern Spain,” Early Modern Representations of Islamic Culture and the East, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Spring/Summer 2002: 109-125.
“An English Pícaro in New Spain: Miles Philips and the Framing of National Identity,” Early Modernities, CR: The New Centennial Review 2.1, Spring 2002: 55-68.
“Pirating Spain: Jonson on Translation,” Modern Philology 99.3, Feb. 2002: 341-356.
“Spanish Lessons: Spenser and the Irish Moriscos,” Studies in English Literature, 42.1, Winter 2002: 43-62.
“Empire Unmanned: Gender Trouble and Genoese Gold in Cervantes’ ‘The Two Damsels,’” PMLA 116.2, March 2001: 285-299.
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“Virtual Spaniards,” Spanish Nation Formation, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2.1, March 2001: 13-26.
“Faithless Empires: Pirates, Renegadoes, and the English Nation,” English Literary History 67, Spring 2000: 45-69.
“Conquering Islands: Contextualizing The Tempest,” Shakespeare Quarterly 48.1, Spring 1997: 45-62. Reprinted in The Tempest, ed. Peter Hulme and William Sherman, Norton Critical Editions, 2003.
“Border Crossings: Transvestism and ‘Passing’ in Don Quijote,” Cervantes 16, Fall 1996: 4-28.
Reviews
Michael Armstrong-Roche, Cervantes’ Epic Novel: Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles, forthcoming, Modern Philology 110.3, Feb. 2013.
“Quixotism.” A review essay on Dale B. J. Randall and Jackson C. Boswell, eds., Cervantes in Seventeenth-Century England: The Tapestry Turned, (Oxford, 2009); J. A. G. Ardila, ed., The Cervantean Heritage: Reception and Influence of Cervantes in Britain (Legenda, 2009); and Stephen Greenblatt, “Theatrical Mobility” in Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (Cambridge UP, 2010), 75-95. Shakespeare 7.3 (Sept. 2011): 377-81.
Benedict Robinson, Islam and Early Modern English Literature: The Politics of Romance from Spenser to Milton, Shakespeare Yearbook 18, 2010: 162-64.
Laura Bass, The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain, Renaissance Quarterly 62. 3, Fall 2009: 900-01.
William Childers, Transnational Cervantes, Anuario de Estudios Cervantinos 5.
Ricardo Padrón, The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain. Modern Language Quarterly 66.4, Dec. 2005: 549-51.
Diana de Armas Wilson, Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World. Modern Language Quarterly 63.4, Dec. 2002: 537-39.
Richard Helgerson, Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting. Modern Language Quarterly 62.4, Dec. 2001: 453-56.
Virginia Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan, eds., The Tempest (The Arden Shakespeare). Shakespeare Quarterly 52.1, Spring 2001: 133-34.
Christopher Highley, Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland. Shakespeare Quarterly 50.3, Fall 1999: 389-91.
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WORK IN PROGRESS
Norton Anthology of Western Literature, co-editor. Martin Puchner, General Editor. Forthcoming 2013. “Spain and the Moors,” in Approaches to Teaching Don Quijote, ed. Lisa Vollendorf and James Parr. Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean, an edited collection based on my Clark Library core program, co-edited with Emily Weissbourd. “Intimate Strangers: Humor and the Representation of Difference in Cervantes’s Drama of Captivity.”
PAPERS AND PANELS (* MARKS INVITED PRESENTATIONS)
3/2013* “Picaresque Itineraries,” “Global Renaissance,” CUNY.
11/2012* “Captives and Renegades as Intermediaries,” “Diplomatic Fabrics,” Toulouse.
9/2012* “World Histories/Metahistories,” “World Studies Interdisciplinary Project,” University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
5/2012* “Genre and Empire in the Mediterranean,” Harvard University.
3/2012* “Pirating Spain,” “Cultural Translation: A Global Middle Ages/Renaissance” George Washington University.
3/2012 “Perverse Epics and Picaresque Geographies,” Renaissance Society of America, Washington, D.C.
2/2012* “Cardenios for Our Time,” “Shakespeare’s Europe/Europe’s Shakespeare,” UC Irvine.
1/2012 “Double Falsehood and Other Shakespearean Properties,” Shakespeare Division, MLA, Seattle.
1/2012 “Literary Models, Imperial Exemplars,” English Renaissance Excluding Shakespeare Division, MLA, Seattle.
10/2011* “Orientalizing Spain.” Keynote speaker, “Orientalism and the Dialectics of Identity in Early Modern Europe,” U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
9/2011* “Pirating Spain.” Keynote speaker, “Early Modern Exchanges,” University College London.
6/2011 “Intimate Strangers: Cervantes’ Representation of Difference in North African Captivity Plays,” Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Lisbon, Portugal.
5/2011* “Spanish Plots on the English Stage,” “Theater without Borders,” Madrid, Spain.
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4/2011 “Forcible Translation,” Multicampus Research Group on Early Modern Globalization, UC Berkeley.
4/2011* “Spanish Plots, Plotting Spaniards,” University of Washington.
3/2011* “Spanish Plots on the English Stage,” “Early Modern Translation: Theory, History, Practice,” Folger Shakespeare Library.
1/2011 “‘El español inglés’: Cervantes and the Fictions of National Belonging,” MLA Los Angeles.
1/2011 “Anchoring the Real in Twelfth Night,” MLA Los Angeles.
10/2010* “Writing in/through Religious Exile,” a plenary roundtable at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Montréal.
8/2010* “Influence, Appropriation, Piracy: The Place of Spain in English Literary History,” CUNY Graduate Center.
7/2010* Invited faculty, NEH Summer Institute on “Ceremony in the Early Modern World,” Folger Shakespeare Library.
4/2010 “Cervantes in Italy,” Renaissance Society of America, Venice.
3/2010* “Spanish Plots, Plotting Spaniards,” NYU.
10/2009* “Influence, Appropriation, Piracy: The Place of Spain in English Literary History,” UCLA Postcolonial Studies Group.
4/2009* “Influence, Appropriation, Piracy: The Place of Spain in English Literary History,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
3/2009 “Knights and Merchants, or, Don Quijote in England,” Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles.
12/2008 “Granada and the Place of the Moors,” “People and Places in the Mediterranean,” Division for 16th and 17th Century Spanish Poetry and Prose, MLA, San Francisco.
12/2008* Panelist, “How to Get Published in PMLA,” MLA, San Francisco.
10/2008* “Juegos and jinetes: Romance and Material Culture in the Guerras civiles de Granada (1595),” Newberry Library Romance and Epic Seminar, Chicago.
3/2008* “Beyond the Missing Cardenio: Anglo-Spanish Relations in Early Modern Drama,” University College, London.
11/2007* “Beyond the Missing Cardenio: Anglo-Spanish Relations in Early Modern Drama,” Camden Annual Lecture in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and "The Disavowal of Influence: The Knight of the Burning Pestle and Don Quijote,” graduate seminar, Department of English, Rice University. Fuchs—9
9/2007 “‘Maurophilia’ and the Early Modern Construction of Spain,” Penn Humanities Forum.
9/2007* “Religion and National Distinction,” “Religion and Empire in the Early Modern Atlantic,” University of Michigan.
5/2007* “Beyond Influence: Towards a New History of Anglo-Spanish Relations,” “Renaissance Reckonings” series, University of Maryland, College Park.
4/2007* “Moorish Fashion,” “Islam and Europe” conference, SUNY Stony Brook.
4/2007 “Pirating Plays,” Shakespeare Association of America, San Diego.
3/2007* “‘La grandeza mexicana’ de Balbuena y el imaginario de una ‘metrópoli colonial’” (co-written with Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel), Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
3/2007 “Playing the Moor,” RSA, Miami.
1/2007* “The Quotidian and the Exotic: Managing ‘Moorishness’ in Early Modern Spain,” Stanford University.
11/2006* “Beyond Influence: Towards a New History of Anglo-Spanish Relations,” “Invidious Comparisons: A Colloquium on Spain and England,” Princeton University.
11/2006* “Don Quijote I, History, and National Memory,” Brown University.
10/2006* “1492 and the Scission of Hispanism,” “Medieval/Renaissance: After Periodization,” Stanford University.
4/2006* “Don Quijote I, History, and National Memory,” Miami University of Ohio.
3/2006 “Reorienting the Atlantic World,” RSA, San Francisco.
2/2006* “The Curious Case of the Missing Cardenio: Anglo-Spanish Relations in Early Modern Drama,” University of California, Davis. Lecture and workshop.
12/2005 “Don Quijote I and History, 1605-2005,” Cervantes Society of America, MLA, Washington D. C.
11/2005* “Maurophilia/Maurophobia,” Princeton Renaissance Colloquium.
11/2005* “Maurophilia and the Morisco Subject,” Romance Studies Department, Cornell University.
11/2005* “Don Quijote I, History, and National Memory,” Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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10/2005 “Rivalry and Rhetoric.” “Ottoman and Atlantic Empires in the Early Modern World,” Istanbul, Turkey.
8/2005* “Don Quijote, la historia y la memoria nacional,” “Artes y Memoria,” Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
6/2005* “Maurophilia/Maurophobia.” Invited faculty, NEH Summer Institute on “Persecutions in Early Modern Cultures,” University of Maryland.
5/2005* “Maurophilia and the Morisco Subject.” Keynote address for “Conversos and Moriscos within and without Spain,” Plasencia, Spain.
4/2005* “Shakespeare and Spain: The Curious Case of the Missing Cardenio.” “Shakespeare and the World,” University of Minnesota.
4/2005* “Cervantes, Shakespeare, and the Anglo-Spanish Drama,” Bryn Mawr College.
4/2005 “Traveling Texts.” RSA, Cambridge, UK.
3/2005* “Epic Across the Atlantic: Ercilla and the Politics of Reception,” SAA, Bermuda.
12/2004 “La Araucana in Ireland.” “Writing and Reading English Literature in a Transnational Context,” Division on Literature of the English Renaissance Excluding Shakespeare, MLA, Philadelphia.
11/2004* “Traveling Epic: Translating Ercilla's Araucana in the Old World,” Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
10/2004* “Traveling Epic: Translating Ercilla's Araucana in the Old World,” Comparative Literature Department, Yale University; Atlantic History Workshop, New York University.
4/2004* “Traveling Epic: Translating Ercilla's Araucana in the Old World,” “A Global Renaissance” Stony Brook University Humanities Institute, New York.
1/2004 “Genre and History.” University of Pennsylvania.
12/2003 “The Quotidian and the Exotic,” “Daily Life in the Golden Age,” Division for 16th and 17th-century Spanish Prose and Poetry, MLA, San Diego.
11/2003* “Sketches of Spain: Early Modern England’s ‘Orientalizing’ of Iberia,” “Crossing the Channel: Literary, Cultural, and Political Relations Between Spain and England, 1554-1604,” Newberry Library, Chicago.
11/2003* “Epic’s Imperial Reach in the Old Colonial World,” “Epic Texts and the Colonial World,” Princeton University.
5/2003 “The Postcolonial Past.” University of Washington, Seattle.
4/2003* “The Spanish Race.” “Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires,” Duke University. Fuchs—11
3/2003* “Reimagining Romance.” Keynote address for “Imagination, Intuition, Innovation,” Graduate Romanic Association Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
3/2003 “Theorizing Early Modern Expansion.” RSA, Toronto.
2/2003* “Maurophilia and National Identity in Early Modern Spain.” Med/Ren seminar, University of Pennsylvania.
12/2002 “Translating Rome.” MLA, New York.
12/2002 “Rethinking Maurophilia.” “1453 - 1699: Cultural Encounters between East and West,” Institute of English Studies, University of London.
11/2002* “Speaking in Tongues: El español y otras lenguas.” Panelist. “Instituting Hispanism,” Princeton University.
3/2002* “In Memory of Moors: ‘Maurophilia’ and National Identity in Early Modern Spain.” “Ottomans and Others,” Folger Library, Washington D.C.
3/2002* “Imperium Studies.” Keynote address for Claremont Early Modern Studies Graduate Symposium, "Aliens and Outsiders: Beyond the Margins of Early Modern Europe, 1450-1750," Claremont Graduate University.
11/2001 “Putting Africa on the Map: Palimpsest and Inventory in Leo Africanus’ Geographical Historie of Africa.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia.
9/2001* “A Mirror Across the Water: Mimetic Racism, Hybridity, and Cultural Survival.” “Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, 1492-1763,” Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, U. of Alabama.
4/2001 “Masculinity in the Mediterranean.” International Shakespeare Congress, Valencia, Spain.
4/2000 “Literature and Imperialism in Early Modern Studies.” Renaissance Colloquium, U. of Washington.
4/2000 “Passing Pleasures: Costume and Custom in Cervantes’ ‘El amante liberal.’” “(Im)Politic Cervantes,” U. of Washington.
4/2000 “Spanish Frames/Framing Spain.” SAA, Montréal.
2/2000 “The Mediterranean and the Transatlantic: The Place of Spain in Early Modern ‘Imperial Studies.’” “Postcolonial Moves,” U. of Miami.
2/2000 “Passing Fancies: Cervantes and the Critique of Transparency.” “Freedom of Expression in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World,” UC Santa Barbara.
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11/1999 “‘Colonial Quotation’ and the Rhetoric of Imperialism.” North American Conference on British Studies, Cambridge, MA.
10/1999 “Jonson’s Commendatory Poetry and the Translation of Empire.” “Learned Discourses and the Emerging European Vernaculars,” Division of French and Italian Studies, U. of Washington.
4/1999 “Learning from Spain: The Case of the Irish Moriscos.” “Archipelagic Identities,” Hertford College, Oxford University.
4/1999 “Pirating Spain: Jonson on Translation.” SAA, San Francisco.
12/1998 “Empire Unmanned: Gender Trouble and Classical Allusion in Cervantes’ ‘Las dos doncellas.’” Cervantes Society of America, MLA, San Francisco.
7/1998 “Planting Evidence: Legal Contexts for England's Westward Expansion.” “Renaissance Law and Literature,” Wolfson College,Oxford University.
5/1998 “The Limits of Spanish Identity.”“Discovery, New Frontiers, and Expansion in the Luso-Iberian World,” Mediterranean Studies Association, Lisbon.
10/1997 “Civil Engagements: The Spanish Empire and its Discontents.” “Comparative Colonialisms: Preindustrial Colonial Intersections in Global Perspective,” SUNY Binghamton.
4/1997 “Truth, Fictions, and the New World.” American Comparative Literature Association, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
3/1997* “The Geopolitics of Shakespearean Romance.” SAA, Washington, D.C.
12/1996 “Wearing Each Other’s Clothes: Cervantes at the Border.” Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature, MLA, Washington, D.C.
CONFERENCES AND PANELS ORGANIZED
2011-12 “Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” a year-long program of interconnected conferences at the Clark Library. October 2011: “Envisioning Empire in the Old World;” February 2012: “Black Legends and Domestic Dissent;” May 2012 “Imagining the Mediterranean in Early Modern England.”
6/2011 “African Genres: Imagining Africa in Early Modern Spanish Texts.” Panel organizer and chair. Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Lisbon, Portugal.
4/2011 “Cosmopolitans and Barbarians,” seminar organized with Catherine Nicholson for the Shakespeare Association of America, Seattle.
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4/2010 “Spain in Italy, I and II.” Panel organizer and chair. Renaissance Society of America, Venice.
2/2008 “Re-envisioning Early Modern Iberia: Visuality, Materiality, History.” Conference organized in the Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania. Speakers: Amanda Wunder, Ma. Judith Feliciano, Karina Galperín, Ricardo Padrón, Enrique García-Santo Tomás, Laura Bass, Elizabeth Wright, Georgina Dopico-Black.
12/2007 “Spenser and the Continent.” Panel organizer. International Spenser Society, MLA, Chicago.
3/2007 “The Moor Within: 'Moorishness' and the Construction of Early Modern Spain.” Panel organizer. RSA, Miami.
12/2006 “New Comparisons: Beyond Influence I. Appropriation, Circulation, Digestion.” Panel organizer and chair. Division for Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque. MLA, Philadelphia.
12/2005 “Novelty and the Nation.” Panel organizer and chair. Division for Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque. MLA, Washington, D.C.
4/2005 “The Cosmopolitan Renaissance.” Panel organizer. RSA, Cambridge, UK.
12/2004 “Comparative Studies and the Early Americas.” Panel organizer and chair. Division for Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque. MLA, Philadelphia.
1/2004 “Genre and History.” Conference organized in the Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania. Speakers: Jean Howard, Heather James, David H. Sacks, Marina Brownlee, David Quint, Joan DeJean, Roger Chartier.
12/2003 “Comparative Studies: Beyond Europe?” Panel organizer and respondent. Division for Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque. MLA, San Diego.
5/2003 “The Postcolonial Past.” Conference organized with David Baker in conjunction with a special issue of MLQ. University of Washington, Seattle. Speakers: Roland Greene, Robert Markley, John Dagenais, Irad Malkin, Lydia Liu, Deepika Bahri.
3/2003 “Imperium Studies.” Panel organizer. RSA, Toronto.
12/2002 “The Transatlantic Baroque.” Panel organizer and chair. Division for Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque. MLA, New York.
11/2002 “Speaking in Tongues: El español y otras lenguas.” Panel organizer and chair. “Instituting Hispanism,” Princeton University.
4/2000 “(Im)politic Cervantes.” Conference organized with George Shipley, University of Washington. Speakers: Carroll Johnson, David Castillo, Michael Gerli, George Shipley, Barbara Fuchs. Fuchs—14
4/2000 “The Spanish Connection.” Special session organized for the Shakespeare Association of America, Montréal.
3/2000 “Literature and Colonialism: Pedagogy Workshop,” with Gayatri Spivak, Srinivas Aravamudan, and Ranjana Khanna, U. of Washington.
11/1999 “Literature and Colonialism: Pedagogy Workshop,” with Mary Louise Pratt, Srinivas Aravamudan, and Ranjana Khanna, U. of Washington.
12/1998 “Theorizing Early Modern Imperialism.” Special session organized for MLA, San Francisco.
SERVICE
Departments:
UCLA: 2011-12 Lecture Committee, Spanish & Portuguese. 3/2011 Friends of English Book Club leader. 1/2011 Respondent to Prof. Jean Howard, English. 2010-11 Undergratuate Studies Committee, English. 2009-12 Spanish Language Exam, English. 2009-11 Admissions Committee, Spanish & Portuguese. 2009-10 Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, Spanish & Portuguese. 2009-10 Ad Hoc Promotion Committee.
University of Pennsylvania: 1/2009 Speaker, Graduate Romanic Association Roundtable on Epistolarity. 2007-08 Search Committee, Latin American/Brazilian Position. 11/2007 Speaker, Graduate Romanic Association Roundtable on Collegiality. 2005-06 Undergraduate Prize Committee (Williams Senior Prize, Senior Essay Prize). 2/2006 Speaker, Graduate Romanic Association Roundtable on Publishing. 2005-06 Williams Chair Search Committee. 2005-06 Undergraduate Major Committee. 2003-08 Graduate admissions. 2/2004 Speaker, Graduate Romanic Association Roundtable on Writing. 2003-04 Redesign of Ph.D. guidelines and reading lists for Spanish. 11/2003 Speaker, Graduate Romanic Association Roundtable on Time Management. 3/2003 Keynote speaker, Graduate Romanic Association colloquium. 2002-03 Search Committee, Modern Peninsular Position.
University of Washington: 2001-02 Search Committee, Early Modern Studies Position. 2000-01 Search Committee, 17/18th-Century Position. 1999-2000 Heilman Dissertation Prize Committee. 1998-99 Search Committee, Medieval Position. Fuchs—15
1998-2000 DRIDEN (Development and Research Institute of the Department of English), conceptualization and organization. 1997-98 Placement Committee.
University:
UCLA: 2011- Director, Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and Clark Library. 2011-12 Search Committee, Dean of the Humanities. 2010-11 Reviewer, Faculty Senate Grants. 2009-12 EMRG (Early Modern Research Group), conceptualization and organization. 2009-12 Early Modern Studies website. 2009-11 Faculty Advisory Board, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. 2009-11 Faculty mentor. 2009-10 Maurice Amado Faculty Incentive Grant in Sephardic Studies Fellowhip Committee. 2009-10 Promotion review committee.
University of Pennsylvania: 12//2008 Speaker, Philomathean Society Tea. 3/2008 Speaker, “Balancing Work and Life,” “Faculty Conversations on the Academic Job Search and Academic Life” series, Career Services. 2007-09 Hearing Board, Student Disciplinary System /Code of Academic Integrity. 2007-08 Penn Humanities Forum Awards Committee. 2005-06 “Cross-Cultural Analysis” Curriculum Committee. 2004-07 Penn Press Faculty Editorial Board. 2004-06 Graduate Council of the Faculties. 2004-05 Provost’s Ad Hoc Committee on Women in Academia. 5/2003- Member, Comparative Literature Graduate Group. 4/2003 Respondent, Graduate Humanities Forum conference.
University of Washington: 2000-02 EMERGE (Early Modern Research Group), conceptualization and organization, with Professor Benjamin Schmidt. 2001 Reader, Royalty Research Fund awards. 2001-02 Division of French and Italian Studies Chair Search Committee. 2001 Senior Fellow, Course Design Workshop, Faculty Fellows Program. 2002 Faculty, Project GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness & Readiness for Undergraduate Programs). 1998-2000 Culture Colloquium Committee, Center for West European Studies.
Profession:
2012 External reviewer, European Research Council. 2012 External reviewer, Dutch Council for the Humanities. 2011-12 Nominating Committee, Modern Language Association. 2009-14 Executive Committee of the Division of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose, Modern Language Association. 2007 Panelist, NEH Division of Preservation and Access Grants. Fuchs—16
2006-09 External evaluator, ACLS Early Career Fellowships. 2006 MacCaffrey Prize Committee, International Spenser Society. 2004-06 Executive Committee, International Spenser Society. 2002-07 Executive Committee of the Division of Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature, Modern Language Association. 2003- External fellowship evaluator: Stanford Humanities Center.
Tenure/promotion reviews for Spanish, English, Comparative Literature, and History departments: Arizona State University, U. of Massachussetts, UVA, U. of West Virginia, Cornell, NYU, UNC, North Carolina State, U. of Chicago, St. John’s, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Stonybrook, Swarthmore, Tulane, U. of Wisconsin, Brown, Wheaton College, Northwestern, U. of Michigan, U. of Kansas.