Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA, where she also directs the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance and its Diversifying the Classics project (http://diversifyingtheclassics.humanities.ucla.edu/). In 2013, in partnership with Playwrights’ Arena, she launched the Golden Tongues initiative, which adapts Hispanic classical theater to contemporary Los Angeles. She also directs LA ESCENA, Los Angeles’ first festival of Hispanic classical theater, founded in 2018. Recent scholarly projects include Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic, forthcoming from Methuen; a collaborative translation of Ana Caro's The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs, forthcoming from Juan de la Cuesta; and 90 Monologues from Classical Spanish Theater, with Jennifer Monti and Laura Muñoz (Juan de la Cuesta 2018).

She directs the "Comedia in Translation and Performance Series" for Juan de la Cuesta, which has published the following collaborative translations:

To Love beyond Death. Edition and translation of Calderón de la Barca's Amar después de la muerte, with the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance. Juan de la Cuesta, 2020.

The Widow of Valencia. Edition and translation of Lope de Vega’s La viuda valenciana, with the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance. Juan de la Cuesta, 2019.

What We Owe Our Lies. Edition and translation of Alarcón’s Los empeños de un engaño, with the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance. Juan de la Cuesta, 2019.

The Force of Habit. Edition and translation of Guillén de Castro’s La fuerza de la costumbre, with the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance. Juan de la Cuesta, 2019.

A Wild Night in Toledo. Edition and translation of Lope de Vega’s La noche toledana, with the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance. Juan de la Cuesta, 2018.