Selected Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Ph.D., English; 2007; Rice University
M.A., English; 2005; Rice University
B.A., English, 1997, University of North Texas
Employment:
Fall 2016 – present, Associate Professor of Latinx Literature, Department of English, University of North Texas
Fall 2010 – Spring 2016, Assistant Professor of Latinx Literature, Department of English, University of North Texas
Fall 2006 – Spring 2010, Assistant Professor of Latinx Literature, Department of English, Texas Tech University
Fall 2004 Lecturer, Yale University, American Studies
Fellowship and Awards:
2023-2024 Institute for the Advancement of the Arts Faculty Fellow, University of North Texas
2022 Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited Collection, for Latinx Environmentalisms
2021-2022, Senior Fellow, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
2021, Stevens Award for Outstanding Service, University of North Texas, Department of English
2020, President’s Council Teaching Award, University of North Texas
2019, Preston Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, University of North Texas, Department of English
2017, Western Literature Association's Thomas J. Lyon Book Award, for Writing the Goodlife
2016, Aldo and Estella Leopold Writer in Residence, Mi Casita, Tres Piedras, NM
Publications/Books:
Monograph: Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment. University of Arizona Press, 2016.
Co-Edited Collection with Sarah Wald, David J. Vázquez and Sarah Jaquette Ray: Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Temple University Press, 2019.
Publications/Articles (print and online):
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. "Wondering Around." The Brooklyn Rail's Critics Page. Dec 22/Jan 23.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. “The Idea of Wilderness to Mexican Americans.” in: First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100, Torrey House Press, 2021. and High Country News, March 15, 2022.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. “Undisciplining Toward Just Reciprocities.” ASAP/Journal (Forum on “Becoming Undisciplined”) January 2022.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. “Affirming Abundance.” Solastalgia, UVA Press, 2023.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. “a farm for my mother, a farm for meme.” December 21, 2020, HowlRound Theatre Commons. https://howlround.com/farm-my-mother-farm-meme
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. “Recommended Reading: Essential Books on Mexican Americans and the Environment.” Orion Magazine Blog. January 30, 2020.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. “The Land Has Memory: An Interview with Essayist, Playwright, and Poet Cherríe Moraga." Orion Magazine. Winter 2019. 76-81.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. “The Body Knows and the Land Has Memory: An Interview with Cherríe Moraga.” Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Eds. Sarah Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah J. Ray. Temple UP, 2019. 281-294.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis and Sarah Wald. “An Organic Being in the Middle of Chicago: An Interview with Ana Castillo.” Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Eds. Sarah Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah J. Ray. Temple UP, 2019. 131-146.
Wald, Sarah; David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra and Sarah Jaquette Ray. “Introduction: Why Latinx Environmentalisms?” Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Eds. Sarah Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah J. Ray.Temple University Press, 2019. 1-31.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. "Environmental Wisdom in Two Mexican American Novels: An Ecocritical Reading of ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him and Bless Me, Ultima." Critical Insights: Nature & the Environment. Ed. Scott Slovic. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2012. 62-77.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. "Erasure by U.S. Legislation: Ruiz de Burton's Nineteenth Century Novels and the Lost Archive of Mexican American Environmental Knowledge." Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century. Eds. Stephanie LeMenager, Teresa Shewry, and Ken Hiltner. New York: Routledge, 2011. 135-147.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. “Chicana/o Environmental Ethics.” Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. Eds. J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2009. 140-142.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. “Borderlands as Bioregion: Jovita González, Gloria Anzaldúa, and the Twentieth Century Ecological Revolution in South Texas.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. 34.2. (2009): 175-189.
Marcone, Jorge and Priscilla Solis Ybarra. “Inhabiting and Unearthing: Chicana/o and Mexican Environmental Writing.” Teaching North American Environmental Literature. Eds. Laird Christensen, Mark C. Long, Fred Waage. New York: Modern Language Association Publications, 2008. 93-111.
Ybarra, Priscilla Solis. “’Lo que quiero es tierra’: Longing and Belonging in Cherríe Moraga’s Ecological Vision.” New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism. Ed. Rachel Stein. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 240 - 248.
Professional Activities: Invited Lectures:
2023, "The Idea of Wilderness to Mexican Americans," Dempsey Endowed Environmental Lecture Series, Willamette College, Salem, OR
2023, "A Chicana Eco-Genealogy: Searching for My Environmental Foremothers," Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC (online)
2022, "Dreaming New Worlds," The Olmsteds' Conservation Legacy, U.S. Capitol Visitors' Center, Washington, DC
2022, “Climate Justice, Chicana Feminisms, Chicanx Futurisms,” Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (online)
2022, “Affirming Abundance,” North Texas Master Naturalists Chapter Meeting, Dallas, TX (online)
2021, “What to the Mexican American is Wilderness: Meditations on #LandBack and Abolition,” Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2021, “Undisciplining Toward Just Reciprocities,” Association for the Study of Rhetoric, Technology, Science, and Medicine Preconference @ National Communication Association (online)
2020, “Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial,” Humboldt State University, Book Talk (online)
2019, “Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial,” Rhode Island School of Design, Climate Futures Symposium II, Providence, RI
2019, “Who Stole the Planet?: Colonization, Capital, and Enslavement,” Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2019, “Who Stole the Planet?: Colonization, Capital, and Enslavement,” Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2019, “Who Stole the Planet?: Colonization, Capital, and Enslavement,” University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2018, “On Our Backs the Disaster: How Does Climate Change Reshape Race, Class, and Gender?," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2018 "On Our Backs the Disaster: Climate Crisis in Latinx Creativities," English Graduate Student Association Conference, University of Texas at Arlington
2017, “Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment,” University of Texas, Austin, Texas
2017, “Chicanx Writings and Decolonial Environmentalisms for the Twenty First Century,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2017, “Mexican Americans and the Environment: Writing the Goodlife,” Ohio State University, Columbus
2017, “Writing the Goodlife: Mexican Americans and the Environment,” University of Oregon, Eugene
2016, “Writing the Goodlife: Mexican Americans and the Environment,” Rice University, Houston, Texas
2016, "Decolonizing Love: Mexican Americans and the Environment," UNT on the Square, Denton, Texas
2016, "Estella Elvira Luna Bergere Leopold: Latina/o Legacies in American Environmentalism," with Estella B. Leopold, Museum of Heritage and Arts, Los Lunas, New Mexico
2016, "The Leopolds in Light of the Lunas," Fifth Annual Aldo and Estella Leopold Writing Residency Lecture, Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico
2016, "Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment," The Heart of the Gila: Wilderness and Water in the West, ASLE Off-Year Symposium, Silver City, New Mexico
2015, “Mexican American Writing and the Land,” Geography of Hope: Women and the Land Conference, Point Reyes Station, California
2013 “In Light of the Lunas: A Portrait of Mexican American Environmentalism in the Early Twentieth Century Southwest,” Twenty-Fourth Annual Symposium on Environmental Ethics: Lessons of Leopold—Ecosystem Ethics and Environmental Policy,” Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
2012 “Ecocriticism: Nature Writing Foundations, Social Justice Transformations, Decolonial Futures,” University of Bucharest, ROMANIA; Plenary Speaker for (M)Other Nature?: Inscriptions, Locations, Revolutions Conference
2011 "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; Department of English, Literature and Environment Program
2010 "Ethnic Diversity and the Study of Environmental Literature," JAPAN Two-Week Lecture Tour, including: Nara Women's University, University of Hyogo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Sado Island Community Meeting
2009 "John Muir's 'Dark Stranger:' Mexican American Writing's Transnational and Bioregional Challenges to Contemporary Ecocriticism," University of Edinburgh; Environment, Society, and Culture Programme; Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
2008 “Environmental Writing in New Mexico,” Office of the State Historian Scholars Program Speakers Series, State Archives and Research Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2007 “’All Nature Obeys Me’: Jovita González’s Environmental Writing and the Transformation of South Texas,” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2006 “Diversifying Academia: Making Visible the Invisible, Creating New Knowledge,” Keynote Speaker, Texas National McNair Conference, University of North Texas
2005 “Inhabiting Aztlán: How Chicana/o Literary History Rewrites Environmental Inquiry,” Mexican American History Workshop, participant, University of Houston
2004 “Chicana/o Land Ethics in Literary-Historical Context,” for Leadership in Agriculture and Natural Resources course, guest lecturer, The Culture and Policy Institute, University of Texas, San Antonio
Community Cultural Arts:
Project Dramaturg, Da Grove Performance Lab led by Virginia Grise, Cara Mia Theatre, Spring 2022
Project Dramaturg, Community Performances of Your Healing is Killing Me by Virginia Grise, Cara Mia Theatre, Summer 2021
Scholar in Residence, Fur by Migdalia Cruz, Teatro Dallas, Spring 2018
Honors:
Invitee, Understories Writers Workshop, Center for Environmental Humanities, University of Oregon, 2020
Invitee, Colby College Environmental Humanities Institute, 2019
Ecocriticism Book Award Finalist (one of six); Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, 2017
Invitee, Blue River Symposium, Oregon State University, 2011
Office of the State Historian of New Mexico Scholar’s Award, 2008
Service to the Profession:
Editorial Advisory Board, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2020-present
Aldo Leopold Writing Program, Albuquerque, NM, 2019 - 2022
Co-Leader with José Aranda (Rice University), Avanzamos: El Taller Chicana/o Studies, a writing workshop, 2011-present
Member, Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association, 2018-2021
Executive Council, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, 2016-2019
Co-Leader with Heather Houser (UT-Austin), TEN: Texas Ecocritics Network, May 2019
Executive Council, Western Literature Association, 2013-2015
Diversity Caucus Coordinator, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, 2007-2010
Board of Directors, Orion Society/Orion Magazine, 2015-2018