Sustainability, Conservation and Environmental Justice. New approaches and methods in environmental studies

Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Associate Professor, English, University of North Texas. Dr. Ybarra’s research is on Chicano contributions to environmental thought. Her publications include “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 (2010); “Borderlands as Bioregion: Jovita González, Gloria Anzaldúa, and the Twentieth Century Ecological Revolution in the Rio Grande Valley” MELUS Vol. 34, No. 2 (2009); and a book chapter “Lo Que Quiero es Tierra: Longing and Belonging in Cherríe Moraga’s Ecological Vision” New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism (2004).

Dr. Ybarra has lectured on Chicano environmental approaches at many U.S. and international universities and currently teaches courses on Latinx literature and environmental literary studies.

Co-sponsored by the Department of English, Environmental Studies, and the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies.