Barbara Fuchs

Barbara Fuchs is a Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in early modern European cultural studies and postcolonial theory. Her research examines the construction of national identity in Spain, particularly through literary and material culture.

Her work focuses on the interplay between Moorish influences and Spanish identity during the early modern period, including the romanticization of Moors in literary texts ("literary maurophilia") and the presence of Moorish forms in Spanish material culture. She has also explored how European travelers and Protestant propagandists racialized Spain as "African" during this era.

• Andrew W. Mellon Penn Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities (2007–2008)