The growing Latina/o population and the worsening environmental crisis come together in this lecture to highlight unique ideas and useful strategies that emerge from the Mexican American community. The lecture will include insights from the recently published book Writing the Goodlife: Mexican Americans and the Environment as well as a preview of new research on a leading environmental activist family, the Aldo and Estella Leopolds.
Dr. Priscilla Solis Ybarra specializes in Chicana/o Literature and Theory as well as Environmental Literature and Ecocriticism. Her book Writing the Goodlife (Arizona, 2016) is the first long range literary history of Mexican American contributions to environmental thought. Her most recent lectures include invitations to speak at the Harwood Museum in Taos as one of the 2016 Aldo and Estella Leopold Writers in Residence at Tres Piedras, NM; at Rice University's Chicana/o Lecture Series, at the ASLE Heart of the Gila Symposium at Western New Mexico State University, and at the Museum of Heritage and Arts in Los Lunas, New Mexico. She teaches at the University of North Texas, where she is Associate Professor of English.
The event is sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, the Humanities Institute, and the Department of English. The event is free and open to the public.
