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Priscilla S. Ybarra

Title: Associate Professor

Department: English

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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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

Current Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationSpring 2025
ENGL 4650.001Literature and the EnvironmentSpring 2025
ENGL 5730.001Literature and the EnvironmentSpring 2025
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationFall 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 6941.752Directed ResearchFall 2023
ENGL 4250.001Latinx LiteratureFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6500.002Seminar in American Literature and Culture to 1865Fall 2023 SPOT
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
ENGL 4250.001Latinx LiteratureSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
WGST 3720.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.752Directed ResearchFall 2022
ENGL 2351.001Mexican American LiteratureFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5640.001Mexican American Literature and Theory, After 1954Fall 2022 SPOT
ENGL 5900.751Special ProblemsFall 2022
ENGL 6941.752Directed ResearchSpring 2021
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationSpring 2021
ENGL 6530.001Seminar in American Literature and Culture, 1865 to the PresentSpring 2021 SPOT
ENGL 2326.001American LiteratureFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
ENGL 4150.001Literary CriticismFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3922.002Chicano LiteratureSpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
ENGL 5900.747Special ProblemsSpring 2020
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationFall 2019
ENGL 5810.001Survey of Critical TheoryFall 2019 SPOT
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W2 2019
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationSpring 2019
ENGL 4650.001Literature and the EnvironmentSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationFall 2018
ENGL 4150.001Literary CriticismFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3922.002Chicano LiteratureSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationSpring 2018
ENGL 3000.001Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationFall 2017
ENGL 3840.003American Literature 1870 to the PresentSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.752Directed ResearchSpring 2017
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationSpring 2017
ENGL 6941.752Directed ResearchFall 2016
ENGL 6950.752Doctoral DissertationFall 2016
ENGL 3000.003Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5810.001Survey of Critical TheoryFall 2016 SPOT
ENGL 3922.002Chicano LiteratureSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.752Directed ResearchSpring 2016
ENGL 5520.001Studies in American Literature and Culture, 1865 to 1914Spring 2016 SPOT
ENGL 3922.001Chicano LiteratureFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.752Directed ResearchFall 2015
ENGL 4650.001Literature and the EnvironmentFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5640.001Mexican American Literature and Theory, After 1954Fall 2015 SPOT
WMST 3720.001Women's LiteratureFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5730.001Literature and the EnvironmentSpring 2015
ENGL 3846.001Mexican American Non Fiction and CriticismSpring 2015 Syllabus
ENGL 4900.752Special ProblemsSpring 2015
ENGL 5900.747Special ProblemsSpring 2015
ENGL 2500.004Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 2500.006Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 3922.001Chicano LiteratureSpring 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 4450.001Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s)Spring 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 3922.001Chicano LiteratureFall 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 3922.002Chicano LiteratureFall 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 4650.001Literature and the EnvironmentSpring 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2013 Syllabus
WMST 3720.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 5635.001Mexican American Literature and Theory, Before 1954Fall 2012
ENGL 5635.791Mexican American Literature and Theory, Before 1954Fall 2012
ENGL 3846.001Mexican American Non Fiction and CriticismFall 2012 Syllabus
ENGL 3840.004American Literature 1870 to the PresentSpring 2012 Syllabus
ENGL 3922.001Chicano LiteratureSpring 2012 Syllabus
ENGL 5900.747Special ProblemsSpring 2012
ENGL 4400.003American FictionSpring 2011 Syllabus
ENGL 3922.001Chicano LiteratureSpring 2011 Syllabus
ENGL 3922.001Chicano LiteratureFall 2010 Syllabus
ENGL 3922.002Chicano LiteratureFall 2010 Syllabus

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.

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. (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).
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