Faculty Profile

Priscilla 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
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





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
No current or future courses scheduled.


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    ENGL 6941.752, Directed Research, Fall 2023 
                    

                    ENGL 4250.001, Latinx Literature, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6500.002, Seminar in American Literature and Culture to 1865, Fall 2023  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2023 
                    

                    ENGL 4250.001, Latinx Literature, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3924.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    WGST 3720.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6941.752, Directed Research, Fall 2022 
                    

                    ENGL 2351.001, Mexican American Literature, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 5640.001, Mexican American Literature and Theory, After 1954, Fall 2022  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 5900.751, Special Problems, Fall 2022 
                    

                    ENGL 6941.752, Directed Research, Spring 2021 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021 
                    

                    ENGL 6530.001, Seminar in American Literature and Culture, 1865 to the Present, Spring 2021  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 2326.001, American Literature, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2020 
                    

                    ENGL 4150.001, Literary Criticism, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3922.002, Chicano Literature, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2020 
                    

                    ENGL 5900.747, Special Problems, Spring 2020 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2019 
                    

                    ENGL 5810.001, Survey of Critical Theory, Fall 2019  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W2 2019 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2019 
                    

                    ENGL 4650.001, Literature and the Environment, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2018 
                    

                    ENGL 4150.001, Literary Criticism, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3922.002, Chicano Literature, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2018 
                    

                    ENGL 3000.001, Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2017 
                    

                    ENGL 3840.003, American Literature 1870 to the Present, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6941.752, Directed Research, Spring 2017 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2017 
                    

                    ENGL 6941.752, Directed Research, Fall 2016 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.752, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2016 
                    

                    ENGL 3000.003, Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 5810.001, Survey of Critical Theory, Fall 2016  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3922.002, Chicano Literature, Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6941.752, Directed Research, Spring 2016 
                    

                    ENGL 5520.001, Studies in American Literature and Culture, 1865 to 1914, Spring 2016  SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 3922.001, Chicano Literature, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 6941.752, Directed Research, Fall 2015 
                    

                    ENGL 4650.001, Literature and the Environment, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 5640.001, Mexican American Literature and Theory, After 1954, Fall 2015  SPOT
                    

                    WMST 3720.001, Women's Literature, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ENGL 5730.001, Literature and the Environment, Spring 2015 
                    

                    ENGL 3846.001, Mexican American Non Fiction and Criticism, Spring 2015 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 4900.752, Special Problems, Spring 2015 
                    

                    ENGL 5900.747, Special Problems, Spring 2015 
                    

                    ENGL 2500.004, Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 2500.006, Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3922.001, Chicano Literature, Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 4450.001, Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s), Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3922.001, Chicano Literature, Fall 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3922.002, Chicano Literature, Fall 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 4650.001, Literature and the Environment, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3924.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    WMST 3720.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 5635.001, Mexican American Literature and Theory, Before 1954, Fall 2012 
                    

                    ENGL 5635.791, Mexican American Literature and Theory, Before 1954, Fall 2012 
                    

                    ENGL 3846.001, Mexican American Non Fiction and Criticism, Fall 2012 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3840.004, American Literature 1870 to the Present, Spring 2012 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3922.001, Chicano Literature, Spring 2012 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 5900.747, Special Problems, Spring 2012 
                    

                    ENGL 4400.003, American Fiction, Spring 2011 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3922.001, Chicano Literature, Spring 2011 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3922.001, Chicano Literature, Fall 2010 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3922.002, Chicano Literature, Fall 2010 Syllabus

          


          
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Published Publications



  

  
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. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
Awarded Grants



  
  
  	  
          
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).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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