Barbara Fuchs is Distinguished Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA, where she also directs the Diversifying the Classics project. She has published widely on early modern literature and culture as well as contemporary performance. Her most recent books are Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Penn, 2021) and Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic (Bloomsbury 2021). Recent translations with Diversifying the Classics include Lope de Vega's The Beast of Hungary and Guillén de Castro's Don Quixote, both published by Juan de la Cuesta (2025). With Aina Soley and Robin Kello, she edited the anthology Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles (Bloomsbury, 2024).