Priscilla S. Ybarra
University of North Texas
English
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Education

PhD, Rice University, 2007.
Major: English
Degree Specialization: Chicana/o Studies and Ecocriticism
Dissertation Title: Walden Pond in Aztlan?: A Literary History of Chicana/o Environmental Writing, 1848 to the Present
MA, Rice University, 2005.
Major: English
Degree Specialization: Chicana/o Literature and Ecocriticism
BA, University of North Texas, 1997.
Major: English

Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary
Associate Professor, University of North Texas. (August 15, 2016 – Present).
Assistant Professor, University of North Texas. (August 15, 2010 – August 15, 2016).

Professional Memberships

Latina/o Studies Association. (July 15, 2018 – Present).

American Studies Association. (October 15, 2003 – Present).

Executive Council Member, Western Literature Association. (November 1, 2001 – Present).

Executive Council Member, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. (June 15, 2001 – Present).

Modern Language Association. (January 1, 2000 – Present).

National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies. (February 15, 1999 – Present).

Development Activities Attended

Workshop,"TEN: Texas Ecocritics Network," UT-Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America. (July 2019 – Present).

Workshop,"Avanzamos: El Taller Chicanx," Rice University and UNT, United States of America. (2011 – Present).

Workshop,"Five Bodies: Entanglements Workshop Series, Critical Poetics Research Group," Critical Poetics Research Group, Nottingham Trent University and the Nottingham Contemporary Museum, Nottingham, East Midlands, United Kingdom. (2022 – 2022).

Other,"Rethink Outside Fellowship," Blue Sky Funders Forum, United States of America. (October 2021 – May 2022).

Workshop,"This Is a Manifesto! Workshop," allgo, Austin, TX, United States of America. (November 2020 – December 2020).

Workshop,"Understories Writing Workshop," University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States of America. (September 2020 – October 2020).

Workshop,"Environmental Humanities Institute," Colby College, Waterville, Maine, United States of America. (August 5, 2019 – August 9, 2019).

Awards and Honors

Invitee, Blue River Symposium, Oregon State University. (2011 – 2011).

Scholar's Award, Office of the State Historian of New Mexico. (2008 – 2008).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
ENGL 2326, American Literature, 1 course.
ENGL 2351, Mexican American Literature, 1 course.
ENGL 2500, Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills, 2 courses.
ENGL 3000, Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills, 2 courses.
ENGL 3840, American Literature 1870 to the Present, 2 courses.
ENGL 3846, Mexican American Non Fiction and Criticism, 2 courses.
ENGL 3922, Chicano Literature, 11 courses.
ENGL 3924, Women's Literature, 2 courses.
ENGL 4150, Literary Criticism, 2 courses.
ENGL 4250, Latinx Literature, 2 courses.
ENGL 4400, American Fiction, 1 course.
ENGL 4450, Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s), 1 course.
ENGL 4650, Literature and the Environment, 3 courses.
ENGL 4900, Special Problems, 1 course.
ENGL 5520, Studies in American Literature and Culture, 1865 to 1914, 1 course.
ENGL 5635, Mexican American Literature and Theory, Before 1954, 2 courses.
ENGL 5640, Mexican American Literature and Theory, After 1954, 2 courses.
ENGL 5730, Literature and the Environment, 1 course.
ENGL 5810, Survey of Critical Theory, 2 courses.
ENGL 5900, Special Problems, 4 courses.
ENGL 6500, Seminar in American Literature and Culture to 1865, 1 course.
ENGL 6530, Seminar in American Literature and Culture, 1865 to the Present, 1 course.
ENGL 6941, Directed Research, 7 courses.
ENGL 6950, Doctoral Dissertation, 12 courses.
WGST 3720, Women's Literature, 1 course.
WMST 3720, Women's Literature, 2 courses.

Teaching at Other Institutions

Yale University, Chicana/o Culture and Politics, AMST 442, Fall 2004.

Directed Student Learning

Dissertation Committee Member,"Dissertation," English. (2015 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member,"Dissertation," English. (2015 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (May 2021).

Dissertation Committee Member,"With Earth in Mind: Ecological Grief in the Contemporary American Novel," English. (2011 – 2016).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Biological Sciences. (2015 – 2015).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, English. (2015 – 2015).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Communication Studies. (2012 – 2012).

Awards and Honors

President's Council Teaching Award, University of North Texas. (April 2020 – April 2021).

Thomas Preston Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Department of English. (April 2019 – April 2020).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Blog Post for Trade Magazine Site
Ybarra, P. S. (2020). "Recommended Reading: Essential Books on Mexican Americans and the Environment". Orion Magazine website.
Book
Ybarra, P. S., Wald, S. D., Vazquez, D., Ray, S. J. (2019). Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:.
Ybarra, P. S. (2016). Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment. University of Arizona Press.
Book Chapter
Ybarra, P. S. (2023). "Affirming Abundance". Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World. University of Virginia Press.
Ybarra, P. S. (2022). "The Idea of Wilderness to Mexican Americans". First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100. Torrey House Press.
Ybarra, P. S., Wald, S. D. (2019). An Organic Being in the Middle of Chicago: An Interview with Ana Castillo. Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:.
Ybarra, P. S., Wald, S. D., Vazquez, D., Ray, S. J. (2019). Introduction: Why Latinx Environmentalisms. Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:.
Ybarra, P. S. (2019). The Body Knows and the Land Has Memory: An Interview with Cherríe Moraga. Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:.
Ybarra, P. S., Brady, M. P. (2017). "Writing the New Borderlands". American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries in American Literature. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale.
Ybarra, P. S. (2012). Environmental Wisdom in Two Mexican American Novels: An Ecocritical Reading of _And the Earth Did Not Devour Him_ and Bless Me, Ultima_. Salem Press.
Ybarra, P. S. (2011). "Erasure by U.S. Legislation: Ruiz de Burton's Nineteenth Century Novels and the Lost Archive of Mexican American Environmental Knowledge.". Ecocriticism for the Twenty-First Century. Routledge.
Ybarra, P. S., Marcone, J. (2008). "Inhabiting and Unearthing: Chicana/o and Mexican Environmental Writing". Teaching North American Environmental Literature. Modern Language Association.
Ybarra, P. S. (2004). "'Lo que quiero es tierra': Longing and Belonging in Cherrie Moraga's Ecological Vision". New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism. Rutgers University Press.
Critical Review
Ybarra, P. S. (2020). "a farm for my mother, a farm for meme". HowlRound Theatre Commons.
Encyclopedia Article
Ybarra, P. S. (2009). "Chicana/o Environmental Ethics". Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. Macmillan.
Journal Article
Ybarra, P. S. (2022). "Burn It All Down, or, Undisciplining Toward Just Reciprocities". 7(1), 34-40. Association for the Study of Arts in the Present.
Ybarra, P. S. (2009). "Borderlands as Bioregion: Jovita Gonzalez, Gloria Anzaldua, and the Twentieth Century Ecological Revolution in South Texas". MELUS.
Magazine/Trade Publication
Ybarra, P. S. (2023). "Wondering Around". Brooklyn Rail. https://brooklynrail.org/2022/12/criticspage/Wondering-Around
Ybarra, P. S. (2019). The Land Has Memory: An Interview With the Playwright, Poet, and Essayist Cherríe Moraga. (Winter), . Northampton, Massachusetts: Orion Society.

Presentations Given

Invited Talk

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Latinx Environmentalisms, American University, Washington D.C., United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Dempsey Endowed Environmental Lecture Series, The Idea of Wilderness to Mexican Americans, Willamette College, Salem, Oregon, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), A Chicana Eco-Genealogy: Searching for My Environmental Foremothers, Wofford College, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), "The Idea of Wilderness to Mexican Americans", Blue Sky Funders Forum, virtual, United States of America. (2022).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), "Reading and Conversation on Writing the Goodlife: Mexican Americans and Environmental Writing", Climate Comadres, Tia Chuca's Centro Cultural and Bookstore (virtual), United States of America. (2022).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), "Affirming Abundance", North Texas Master Naturalists Chapter, virtual, United States of America. (2022).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), "Climate Justice, Chicana Feminisms, Chicanx Futurisms", Northern Illinois University, virtual, United States of America. (2022).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), "The Idea of Wilderness to Mexican Americans", University of Texas, Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (2022).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), "What to the Mexican American is Wilderness: Meditations on #LandBack and Abolition", Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America. (2021).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), "Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial", Humboldt State University, virtual, United States of America. (2020).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Climate Futures II, Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial, Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Who Stole the Planet?: Colonization, Capital, Enslavement, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Who Stole the Planet?: Colonization, Capital, Enslavement, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Who Stole the Planet?: Colonization, Capital, Enslavement, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Ybarra, P. (Author & Presenter), English Graduate Student Association, On Our Backs the Disaster: Climate Crisis in Latinx Creativities, University of Texas at Arlington, United States of America. (2018).

Ybarra, P. (Author & Presenter), "On Our Backs the Disaster: How Does Climate Change Reshape Race, Class, and Gender?, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America. (2018).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Department of Comparative Studies Speakers Series, Mexican Americans and the Environment: Writing the Goodlife, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Department of English, Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Department of Spanish and Portuguese Speakers Series, Chicanx Writings and Decolonial Environmentalisms for the Twenty-First Century, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Chicana/o Studies Speakers Series, Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Fifth Annual Aldo and Estella Leopold Writing Residency Lecture, The Leopolds in Light of the Lunas, Aldo and Estella Leopold Writing Program, Taos, New Mexico, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), La Colectiva Speakers Series, Decolonizing Love: Mexican Americans and the Environment, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), San Clemente Exhibit Opening, Estella Elvira Luna Bergere Leopold, Museum of Heritage and Arts, Los Lunas, New Mexico, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Ybarra, P. S. (Other), Geography of Hope Conference, Mexican American Writing and the Land, Point Reyes Books and Black Mountain Circle, Point Reyes Station, California, United States of America. (2015 – 2015).

Ybarra, P. S. (Other), Literature and Environment Program, Erasure by U.S. Legislation: Ruiz de Burton's Nineteenth Century Novels and the Lost Archive of Mexican American Environmental Knowledge, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States of America. (2011 – 2011).

Ybarra, P. S. (Other), Lecture Tour, Ethnic Diversity and the Study of Environmental Literature, Nara Women's University, Nara, Nara, Japan, Japan. (2010 – 2010).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Lecture Tour, Ethnic Diversity and the Study of Environmental Literature, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Japan. (2010 – 2010).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Environment, Society, and Culture Programme, John Muir's Dark Stranger: Mexican American Writing's Transnational and Bioregional Challenges to Contemporary Ecocriticism, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. (2009 – 2009).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Department of Spanish Speakers Series, "All Nature Obeys Me": Jovita Gonzalez's Environmental Writing and the Transformation of South Texas, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. (2007 – 2007).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Leadership in Agriculture and Natural Resources Course, Chicana/o Land Ethics in Literary-Historical Context, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America. (2004 – 2004).

Keynote/Plenary Address

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Idaho Humanities Council Summer Teacher Institute, Mexican American Literature and the Natural World, Idaho Humanities Council, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), The Olmsteds' Conservation Legacy, "Dreaming New Worlds", Washington, D.C., United States of America. (2022).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Association for the Study of Rhetoric, Technology, Science, and Medicine Preconference @ National Communications Association, "Undisciplining Toward Just Reciprocities", Association for the Study of Rhetoric, Technology, Science, and Medicine, virtual, United States of America. (2021).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), The Heart of the Gila: Wilderness and Water in the West, Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Ybarra, P. S. (Other), Twenty-Fourth Annual Symposium on Environmental Ethics: Lessons of Leopold, In Light of the Lunas: a Portrait of Mexican American Environmentalism in the Early Twentieth Century Southwest, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, United States of America. (2013 – 2013).

Ybarra, P. S. (Other), (M)Other Nature?: Inscriptions, Locations, Revolutions Conference, Ecocriticism: Nature Writing Foundations, Social Justice Transformations, Decolonial Futures, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Romania. (2012 – 2012).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), New Mexico State Archives Lecture Series, Environmental Writing in New Mexico, Office of the New Mexico State Historian, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. (2008 – 2008).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), McNair Scholars Conference, Diversifying Academia: Making Visible the Invisible, Creating New Knowledge, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America. (2006 – 2006).

Lecture

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Lecture Tour, Ethnic Diversity and the Study of Environmental Literature, University of Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan, Japan. (2010 – 2010).

Panel Presentation

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Ecocriticism and Ethnic Studies, Portland, Oregon, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Latinx Outdoor Recreation, Portland, Oregon, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Western Literature Association, Placemaking and Embodied Research: Día a Día Con Mi Mami, Fort Hall, Idaho, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Sanders, S. J. (Panelist), Narahara, K. (Panelist), Ybarra, P. S. (Panelist), Mondragon, R. S. (Panelist), Geldon, W. L. (Panelist), Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Moderator), In-CLASS Distinguished Faculty Series Talk, In-CLASS Distinguished Faculty Series Talk: Embodied Heritage, University of North Texas, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), American Studies Association, How Colonization Stole the Planet, and How the Gift Can Reunite Us, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Sowell Collection Conference, Who Stole the Planet?: Colonization, Capital, Enslavement, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Modern Language Association International, How Language Can Shape a Community: An Analysis of Anthropocene and Environment, Lisbon, Portugal, Portugal. (2019 – 2019).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, How Colonization Stole the Planet, Now We're Stealing It Back, Davis, California, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Modern Language Association, On Our Backs the Disaster: Climate Crisis in Latinx Creativities, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Ybarra, P. (Author & Presenter), Western Literature Association, The Ongoing Coloniality of Environmentalism and the Concept of the Anthropocene, United States of America. (2018 – 2018).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Latina/o Studies Association, Not the Anthropocene: Coloniality, Climate Justice, and Ecomedia, Washington D.C., United States of America. (2018 – 2018).

Ybarra, P. (Author & Presenter), Decolonial Ecofeminist Writings: Moraga and Viramontes, United States of America. (2018 – 2018).

Ybarra, P. (Author & Presenter), Conference on the Sowell Collection, On Our Backs the Disaster: How Does Climate Crisis Shape Race, Class, and Gender, Texas Tech University, United States of America. (2018 – 2018).

Ybarra, P. (Author & Presenter), Working Class Studies Conference, Not the Anthropocene: Class, Climate Justice, and Latinx Lives, Collin College, United States of America. (2018).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), American Society of Environmental Historians, The Mexican American Leopolds: Decolonizing Love and the Land, American Society of Environmental Historians, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Conference on the Sowell Collection, The Mexican American Leopolds: Decolonizing Love and the Land, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Chicana/o Studies and the Climate Crisis: Decolonizing 150 Years of Environmental Activism, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Irvine, California, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Third Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, It Happened Through the Grapevine: Narratives of Race, Migration, and Environment in California Winemaking, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference, The Mexican American Leopolds: Decolonizing Love and the Land, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America. (2016 – 2016).

Ybarra, P. S. (Leader), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Latina/o Environmentalisms: Pedagogical Approaches, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America. (2015 – 2015).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Western Literature Association, Mexican American Women's Writing in the West: Ruiz de Burton, Cabeza de Baca, González, and Preciado Martin, Western Literature Association, Reno, Nevada, United States of America. (2015 – 2015).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Western Literature Association, The Leopolds in the Light of the Lunas: Latina/o Legacies in American Environmentalism, Western Literature Association, Reno, Nevada, United States of America. (2015 – 2015).

Ybarra, P. S. (Other), American Studies Association, Nationalism, Coloniality of Being, and Environmentalism: The Decolonization of Chicana/o Politics in Cherríe Moraga's The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea, American Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. (2014 – 2014).

Ybarra, P. S. (Other), Western Literature Association, Delinking and the Land: Telling Identities in Early Twentieth Century Mexican American Goodlife Writing, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (2014 – 2014).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), First Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, Decolonial Chicana/o Literatures: Environmental?, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America. (2013 – 2013).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference, Voces de Las Mujeres: Resisting Conventional Environmentalism in Early Twentieth Century Arizona, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America. (2012 – 2012).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Western Literature Association, Environmentalism as Ethnic Erasure, Western Literature Association, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America. (2012 – 2012).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, "'La Santa Tierra:' Mexican American Women Writing Toward Emancipation of the Land", Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America. (2011 – 2011).

Ybarra, P. S. (Other), American Studies Association, Desert Metaphor, Desert Reality: Border Writers Castillo and Urrea on Migration, American Studies Association, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America. (2010 – 2010).

Ybarra, P. S. (Presenter), Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference, Land, Spectres, and Identity: The Revolutions' Impact on Mexican Ethnic Identity and Relationship to the Natural Environment in Paredes and Ulibarri, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America. (2010 – 2010).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Writing Nature and Searching Self: Idenitity Struggles in Early Twentieth Century Mexican American Environmental Writing, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. (2009 – 2009).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), American Studies Association, Environmental Writing in New Mexico: Nina Otero Warren, American Studies Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. (2008 – 2008).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Challenging "Nature Writing:" Jovita Gonzalez, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, United States of America. (2007 – 2007).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), American Society of Environmental Historians, Ecocriticism in the Context of Environmental History: Jovita Gonzalez's Nature Writing on the Rio Grande, American Society of Environmental Historians, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. (2006 – 2006).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Arid and Semiarid Land Studies Conference, Water and Power Plays: Writing the Environmental Story of the L.A. Basin, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America. (2006 – 2006).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), American Studies Association, Nature Writer from El Rio Bravo: Jovita Gonzalez, American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., United States of America. (2005 – 2005).

Ybarra, P. S. (Author & Presenter), Western Literature Association, What It Takes to See Mexican Americans as Environmentalists, Western Literature Association, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. (2005 – 2005).

Ybarra, P. S. (Panelist), American Studies Colloquium, Mexican American and Environmental Citizenship in the Writings of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America. (2004 – 2004).

Paper

Ybarra, P. S. (Other), Mexican American History Workshop, Inhabiting Aztlan: How Chicana/o Literary History Rewrites Environmental Inquiry, University of Houston Department of History, Houston, Texas, United States of America. (2005 – 2005).

Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits

Theatre - Interdisciplinary work(s). Ybarra, P. S., "Freedom Gardening," Da Grove: Un Taller for Dreaming, , Dallas, Texas, United States of America. (January 2022 – April 2022).

Theatre - Interdisciplinary work(s). Ybarra, P. S., "Your Healing Is Killing Me," YHIKM Community Promotoras, , Dallas, TX, United States of America. (2021 – 2021).

Theatre - Interdisciplinary work(s). Ybarra, P. S., "Fur," Teatro Dallas, , Dallas, TX, United States of America. (2018 – 2018).

Media Contributions

Other
"Latinx Environmentalisms," Abuelas en Accion. (2021).
Radio
"Interview about Mexican American environmental writing,". (July 11, 2016).
"Radio interview about Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment," KNCE. (June 22, 2016).
"Interview about Estella Luna Bergere Leopold," KRZA. (June 22, 2016).
"Geography of Hope Conference discussion," KWMR. (February 26, 2015).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship
Ybarra, P. S. (Principal), "Institute for the Advancement of the Arts Faculty Fellowship," Sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $9000 Funded. (July 15, 2023 – July 15, 2024).
Ybarra, P. S. (Principal), "Clements Center Senior Fellow," Sponsored by Southern Methodist University Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Private, $65000 Funded. (2021 – 2022).
Ybarra, P. S. (Principal), "Aldo and Estella Leopold Writing Residency," Sponsored by Aldo Leopold Foundation and the National Forest Service, Local, $500 Funded. (June 1, 2016 – July 1, 2016).
Grant - Research
Ybarra, P. S., "Faculty Development Leave," Sponsored by Office of the Provost, University of North Texas, Funded. (August 2017 – December 2017).
Ybarra, P. S., "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award," Sponsored by Office of Research and Innovation, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (January 2017 – December 2017).
Ybarra, P. S., "La Colectiva: Women of Color Faculty Mentoring Group," Sponsored by UNT Faculty Success Program, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (2013 – 2014).
Ybarra, P. S., "Avanzamos: El Taller Chicana/o Writing Workshop," Sponsored by Department of English, College of Arts & Sciences, and Office of Research and Economic Development, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2013 – 2013).
Ybarra, P. S., "Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship," Sponsored by Office of Research and Economic Development, University of North Texas, $2500 Funded. (2013 – 2013).
Uncategorized
Ybarra, P. S. (Other), "La Colectiva: Women of Color Faculty Mentoring Group," Sponsored by Faculty Success, $2000. (2015 – 2016).
Ybarra, P. S. (Other), "Avanzamos: El Taller Chicana/o," Sponsored by Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences, Office of Research and Economic Development, $1900. (2015 – 2015).
Ybarra, P. S. (Other), "Scholarly and Creativity Award," Sponsored by Office of Research and Economic Development, $5000. (2015 – 2015).
Ybarra, P. S. (Principal), "Subvention Grant: The Goodlife," Sponsored by Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, $800. (2015 – 2015).
Ybarra, P. S. (Other), "La Colectiva: Women of Color Faculty Mentoring Group," Sponsored by UNT Faculty Success, $4000. (2013 – 2014).
Ybarra, P. S. (Co-Principal), "Chicana/o Studies Writing Workshop," Sponsored by Rice University, $5000. (2013 – 2013).
Ybarra, P. S. (Other), "La Colectiva: Latina Faculty Mentoring Group," Sponsored by UNT, $6000. (2012 – 2013).
Ybarra, P. S. (Principal), "A Literary History of Chicana/o Environmental Writing," Sponsored by UNT, $5000. (2012 – 2012).
Ybarra, P. S. (Co-Principal), "Chicana/o Studies Writing Workshop," Sponsored by Rice University, $5000. (2012 – 2012).
Ybarra, P. S. (Other), "Chicana/o Studies Writing Workshop," Sponsored by UNT, $1500. (2012 – 2012).
Ybarra, P. S. (Principal), "A Literary History of Chicana/o Environmental Writing," Sponsored by UNT, $5000. (2011 – 2011).
Ybarra, P. S. (Co-Principal), "Chicana/o Studies Writing Workshop," Sponsored by Rice University, $3000. (2011 – 2011).
Ybarra, P. S. (Other), "Chicana/o Studies Writing Workshop," Sponsored by UNT, $1500. (2011 – 2011).

Awards and Honors

MLA Prize for an Edited Collection, Modern Language Association. (December 7, 2022 – Present).

Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies, Western Literature Association. (October 27, 2017 – Present).

Nominated for: ASLE Ecocriticism Book Award Finalist, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. (March 6, 2016 – Present).

Aldo and Estella Leopold Writer in Residence, Aldo Leopold Foundation. (June 1, 2016 – July 1, 2016).

Service

University Service

Member, Latina/o Mexican American Studies Program. (2014 – Present).

Member, UNeTe: Latina/o Faculty and Staff Alliance. (2010 – Present).

Committee Member, Curriculum Committee. (2023 – 2025).

Committee Member, Personnel Action Committee. (2022 – 2024).

Committee Member, Latina/o Mexican American Studies Program Advisory Board. (August 2019 – 2021).

Director, Graduate Studies in English. (August 25, 2018 – 2021).

Committee Member, Women's and Gender Studies Program Executive Committee. (August 2018 – 2021).

Faculty Mentor, La Colectiva: Women of Color Faculty Mentoring Group. (2012 – 2018).

Member, Executive Committee. (2016 – 2017).

Director, American Studies Colloquium. (2015 – 2017).

Committee Chair, Early American Literature Search. (2015 – 2016).

Committee Member, African American Literature Search. (2010 – 2011).

Professional Service

Editorial Review Board Member, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. (2020 – Present).

Board of Directors, Rio Puerco Rangeland Trust, Los Lunas, New Mexico. (March 15, 2017 – Present).

Other, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. (2016 – Present).

Workshop Organizer, Avanzamos: El Taller Chicana/o. (2011 – Present).

Other, Western Literature Association. (2013 – 2015).

Other, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. (2007 – 2010).

Awards and Honors

Stevens Award for Outstanding Service, Department of English. (May 2021 – Present).