John Fuegi

A internationally renowned, award-winning documentary producer, director, and Bertolt Brecht scholar, John Fuegi, Professor Emeritus Comparative Literature, University of Maryland, grew up in England and Switzerland. Among his more than 20 books and editions, Fuegi published Chaos, According to Plan (Cambridge University Press 1987), an acclaimed study of Brecht as a stage director. He produced and directed his first film The Wall, a documentary about the mural painter Rico Lebrun, while still an undergraduate student. In Paris in 1988, he co-produced the five-part Beckett Directs Beckett series. For the non-profit Flare Productions, Fuegi has researched, co-produced, and co-directed (with Jo Francis) four Women of Power films (listed below) over the last twenty-five years. In addition to researching, producing, and directing documentaries, Fuegi is writer and university teacher and has served as a visiting professor at Cambridge University, University of Mainz (Germany), Freie Universität Berlin, Academy of Arts of Mexico, the University of South California, and Harvard University. Winner of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), NEH, Fulbright, Stanford University, Wesleyan University Humanities Center and numerous other fellowships and awards, his Brecht & Co. was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1995 and translated into several languages (among them, French, German, and Hebrew). In 2002, Professor Fuegi was appointed the inaugural Clara and Robert Vambery Distinguished Professor of Comparative Studies and MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) Faculty Fellow at the University of Maryland. Currently serving as a visiting professor in writing and biographical studies at Kingston University in England, Fuegi has served for several years as a Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender.