Description: A first-of-its-kind anthology that explores adaptations of 17th-century Hispanic comedia within contemporary Los Angeles theater.
Brief description: Barbara Fuchs is Distinguished Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA, USA, 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, 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 Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World (2021); a collaborative translation of Ana Caro's The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs (2021); and 90 Monologues from Classical Spanish Theater, with Jennifer Monti and Laura Muñoz (2018).