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Priscilla S. Ybarra

Associate Professor

University of North Texas

Department of English

Email: Priscilla.Ybarra@unt.edu

Education

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

Professional Positions

  • Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University. Texas Tech University. (2006 - 2010).

    • Academic - Post-Secondary

  • Associate Professor, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2016 - Present).
  • Assistant Professor, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2010 - 2016).

Professional Memberships

  • Latina/o Studies Association. (July 15, 2018 - Present).
  • American Studies Association. (October 15, 2003 - Present).
  • Western Literature Association. (November 1, 2001 - Present).
  • 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

  • Workshop, TEN: Texas Ecocritics Network, UT-Austin. Austin,Texas,United States of America. (July 2019).
  • Workshop, Avanzamos: El Taller Chicanx, Rice University and UNT. United States of America. (2011).
  • 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 (a non-profit fellowship), 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).

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, 4 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, 2 courses.
  • 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, 14 courses.
  • WGST 3720 - Women's Literature, 1 course.
  • WMST 3720 - Women's Literature, 2 courses.

Teaching at Other Institutions

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

Directed Student Learning

  • Dissertation Committee Member, "Dissertation," English. (2015).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "Dissertation," English. (2015).
  • 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

  • MLA Prize for an Edited Collection, Modern Language Association. (December 7, 2022).
  • Stevens Award for Outstanding Service, Department of English. (May 2021).
  • Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies, Western Literature Association. (October 27, 2017).
  • Nominated for ASLE Ecocriticism Book Award Finalist, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. (March 6, 2016).
  • President's Council Teaching Award, University of North Texas. (April 2020).
  • Thomas Preston Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Department of English. (April 2019).
  • Aldo and Estella Leopold Writer in Residence, Aldo Leopold Foundation. (June 1, 2016).
  • Invitee, Blue River Symposium, Oregon State University. (2011).
  • Scholar's Award, Office of the State Historian of New Mexico. (2008).

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, Cara Mía Theatre, 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, Cara Mía Theatre, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (2021 - 2021).
  • Theatre - Interdisciplinary work(s). Ybarra, P.S., "Fur", Teatro Dallas, 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, 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. (2023 - 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. (2016 - 2016).
  • Ybarra, P.S. (Principal), "Aldo and Estella Leopold Writing Residency," sponsored by Aldo Leopold Foundation and the National Forest Service, Local, Funded. (2016 - 2016).

    • Grant - Research

  • Ybarra, P.S., "Faculty Development Leave," sponsored by Office of the Provost, University of North Texas, Funded. (2017 - 2017).
  • Ybarra, P.S., "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award," sponsored by Office of Research and Innovation, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2017 - 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).
  • Ybarra, P.S. (Principal), "In the Light of Los Lunas: The Mexican American Leopolds, Reckoning with Environmentalism's White Supremacy, and Settler Colonial Violence," sponsored by Southern Methodist University SW Studies, NFP, Funded. (2021 - 2022).

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 (Executive Council Member), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. (2016 - Present).
  • Workshop Organizer, Avanzamos: El Taller Chicana/o. (2011 - Present).
  • Other (Executive Council Member), Western Literature Association. (2013 - 2015).
  • Other (Diversity Caucus Coordinator), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. (2007 - 2010).