Kristy L. Ulibarri

Associate Professor

Faculty
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
English & Literary Arts
Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (in)Equality
Center for Immigration Policy & Research (CIPR)

Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue Denver, CO 80208

Specialization(s)

Latina/e/o/x Literature and Culture, 20th and 21st Century Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S., speculative fiction, globalization, cultural studies, theory.

Professional Biography

Kristy L. Ulibarri is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Literary Arts and is affiliate faculty of the Center for Immigration Policy and Research (CIPR), Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program, the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (In)Equality (IRISE), and the Latinx Center at the University of Denver. Her research and teaching interests include Latina/e/o/x literature and culture, im/migrant narratives, speculative fiction, cultural studies, and globalization. Much of her work is preoccupied with how the political economy shapes and is shaped by Latinx narrative. Her first book _Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives_ (2022, University of Texas Press) received the 2023 Association for Ethnic Studies Outstanding Book Award. _Visible Borders, Invisible Economies_ examines how contemporary Latinx literary and visual narratives reveal the strategic interplays between nation-state regulations and global economy. Other work appears in ASAP/Journal, Art Journal, Aztlán, Feminist Review, and Latino Studies, among others.

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Degree(s)

Ph.D., English Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012
MA, English, University of Northern Colorado, 2005
BA, English, University of Northern Colorado, 2003

Featured Publications

Ulibarri, Kristy L. Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death In Latinx Narratives. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2022. https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477326015/.

Ulibarri, Kristy L. “Agua, Inc.: Water Wars, Aqua-Terrorism, And Speculative Economy In Latinx And Transborder Cinema.” ASAP/Journal 6, no. 2, (2021): 431-458. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/841886/summary.

Ulibarri, Kristy L. “Documenting The U.s.-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, And Paradox.” Art Journal 78, no. 2, (2019): 48-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2019.1626157.

Ulibarri, Kristy L. “"Quotidian Inequality: Free-Market Logic In Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's _The Dirty Girls Social Club_ And Helena María Viramontes' _Their Dogs Came With Them_".” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 43, no. 1, (2018): 121-148. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/csrc/aztlan/2018/00000043/00000001/art00006.

Ulibarri, Kristy L. “"Speculating Latina Radicalism: Labour And Motherhood In _Lunar Braceros 2125-2148_".” Feminist Review 116, no. 1, (2017): 85-100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41305-017-0069-4.

Ulibarri, Kristy L. “"Consuming Aztecs, Producing Workers: Economies Of Indigeneity And Ambivalence In The Chicana/O And Latina/O Imagination".” Latino Studies 14, no. 2, (2016): 214-233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/lst.2016.5.

Ulibarri, Kristy L. “Neoliberalism.” In The Routledge Companion To Latino/A Literature. edited by Frances R. Aparicio and Suzanne Bost. 152-161 London, England: Routledge. 2012.

Presentations

Ulibarri, Kristy L. “Governances Of The Dead: Daniel José Older's _Salsa Nocturna_ And A Necropolitics From Below” Mla, Seattle, WA, 2020.

Ulibarri, Kristy L. “Dreaming Of Deportation: Imagining Otherwise In Maceo Montoya's _The Deportation Of Wopper Barraza_ ” Latino/A Literary Theory And Criticism, John Jay College, NYC, 2019.

Ulibarri, Kristy L. “_Homo Œconomicus_, The Capitalocene, And Temporality In Alex Rivera's _Sleep Dealer_” Latina/O Studies Association, Washington, DC, 2018.

Ulibarri, Kristy L. “The "Brown Peril" As Malthusian Catastrophe: Im/Migrant Labor In Cristina Henriquez's _The Book Of Unknown Americans_” Latin American Studies Association (Lasa), Barcelona, España, 2018.

Ulibarri, Kristy L. “The Cultural Politics Of Agua: Latinx Narratives And Water Futures” American Comparative Literature Association (Acla), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2018.