Dr. Priscilla Ybarra’s “Sustainability or Reciprocity: Why Stories Matter”

ELIT and AMER Literature and Sustainability Lecture Series

The third talk in this series will take place on Monday, May 9, 7:00 pm, via Zoom.

Time: 19:00 – 20:00

Zoom information:
https://zoom.us/j/91665472062?pwd=TlhnZUk0bHNINXRJN1IzSHpJVW5QZz09
Meeting ID: 916 6547 2062
Passcode: 856917

Professor Ybarra teaches Chicanx literature and environmental humanities at University of North Texas.  Her book Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment (University of Arizona, 2016) received the 2017 Thomas J. Lyon Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies.  In 2020-2021 she was the Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America.  She is also a recipient of the Rethink Outside Fellowship. Her current book project concerns the Mexican American and environmental legacy of the Aldo and Estella Leopold family in the context of coloniality, capital, and white supremacy.