Assistant Professor
Department of English and Literary Arts
Kristy L. Ulibarri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Literary Arts and is affiliate faculty of the 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 primarily concentrate on Latina/o/x literature and culture, im/migrant narratives, speculative fiction, and cultural studies. Her work often delineates the relationship between contemporary U.S. Latinx cultural production, free-market economies, and national security. She is currently finishing a book manuscript on contemporary Latinx literary and visual narratives that reveal the strategic interplay between nation-state regulations and global economy, forthcoming from University of Texas Press. Her work appears or is forthcoming in ASAP/Journal, Art Journal, Aztlán, Feminist Review, and Latino Studies, among others.
Reading Viramontes...reading authors like Fabiola Cabeza de Baca...These were so important in terms of thinking about this space, and what it means to be Latina, Chicana, Mexican American in this space, because it's so complicated, right?