Patricia Ybarra is the author of Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theater, History and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2009), Latinx Theatre in the Times of Neoliberalism (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and co-editor with Lara Nielsen of Theater and Neoliberalism: Performance Permutations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; paperback 2014). She is the former President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She is also a director, dramaturg and the former administrator of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre.
| Ybarra, Patricia. "Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U. S. Popular Performance. Brian Eugenio Herrera." MELUS, vol. 42, no. 4, 2017, pp. 227-229. |
| Ybarra, Patricia. "Leo Cabranes-Grant, From Scenarios to Networks: Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexicoleo cabranes-grant. From Scenarios to Networks: Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. Pp. 193, illustrated. $99.95 (Hb); $34.95 (Pb)." Modern Drama, vol. 60, no. 4, 2017, pp. 526-528. |
| Ybarra, Patricia. "Performance; What Is Performance Studies?Performance. By Diana Taylor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016; 240 pp.; illustrations. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper, e-book available.What Is Performance Studies? Edited by Diana Taylor and Marcos Steuernagel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Scalar book. scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/wips/index." TDR/The Drama Review, vol. 61, no. 3, 2017, pp. 190-193. |
| Ybarra, Patricia. "Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest by Paul A. Scolieri." Hispanic Review, vol. 83, no. 1, 2015, pp. 113-117. |
| Ybarra, Patricia. "Final Remarks." Theatre Topics, vol. 25, no. 1, 2015, pp. 13-16. |
| Ybarra, Patricia. "Performance and the Global City. Edited by D. J. Hopkins and Kim Solga. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013; pp. xiv + 277, 36 illustrations. $95 cloth, $85 e-book." Theat Surv, vol. 56, no. 01, 2014, pp. 122-124. |
| Ybarra, P. "Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics. Ramon H. Rivera-Servera." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 39, no. 2, 2014, pp. 250-252. |
| Ybarra, Patricia. "Young Jean Lee’s Cruel Dramaturgy." Modern Drama, vol. 57, no. 4, 2014, pp. 513-533. |
| Ybarra, P. "* No Safe Spaces: Recasting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the American Theater * Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith." American Literature, vol. 84, no. 3, 2012, pp. 675-677. |
| Rossini, J. D., Ybarra, P. "Neoliberalism, Historiography, Identity Politics: Toward a New Historiography of Latino Theater." Radical History Review, vol. 2012, no. 112, 2012, pp. 162-172. |
| Ybarra, P. "Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance; Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics." American Literature, vol. 82, no. 4, 2010, pp. 851-853. |
| Ybarra, Patricia. "Querying Difference in Theatre History (review)." Theatre History Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, 2009, pp. 249-251. |
| Ybarra, P. "Mexican Theater History and Its Discontents: Politics, Performance, and History in Mexico." Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 1, 2009, pp. 133-145. |
| Ybarra, Patricia. "The Lark Theatre's US-México Word Exchange." Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 42, no. 2, 2009, pp. 199-204. |
| Ybarra, P. "Embodied Histories." Theater, vol. 36, no. 1, 2006, pp. 178-183. |
Research interests include theatre historiography, Mexican theatre and performance, Latino/a theatre and performance, avant garde theatre, critical race studies, dramaturgy and directing.
Books
Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations, co-edited with Lara Nielsen, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theatre, History and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009).
Book Chapters and Refereed Articles
“Latino/a Dramaturgy as Historiography,” Time Space Matter: Theatre Historiography. Edited by Rosemarie Bank and Michal Kobialka. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015..
“Young Jean Lee’s Cruel Dramaturgy. Modern Drama. 57.4 (Fall 2014) Forthcoming.
"Fighting for a Future in a Free Trade World" in Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations, co-edited with Lara Nielsen, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012): 113-127.
"Neoliberalism, Historiography, Identity Politics: Toward a New History of Latino Theatre," co-written with Jon Rossini, Radical History Review, Issue 112 (Winter 2012): 162-172.
“Performing History as Memorialization: Thinking with And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi and Brown University’s Slavery and Justice Committee,” in Scott Magelssen and Rhona Justice-Malloy, eds., Enacting History (Birmingham: University of Alabama Press, 2011): 113-133.
“Havana Isn’t Waiting: Staging Travel During Cuba’s Special Period,” In Ramon Rivera-Servera and Harvey Young, eds., Performance in the Borderlands (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010): 58-81.
“History Takes Time,” in Henry Bial and Scott Magelssen, eds.,Theatre Historiography: Critical Questions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010).
“Mexican Theater History and Its Discontents: Politics, Performance and History in Mexico,” Modern Language Quarterly, 70.1 (March 2009): 133-145.
“The Revolution Fails Here: Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman as Mexican Medea,” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 33.1 (Spring 2008): 63-88.
“Archeological Performances in Tlaxcala, Mexico,” in Kiki Gounaridou, ed., Theatre and Nationalism (Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland Press, 2005), 186-210.
“The Whole Thing Is Over by Nine O’ Clock’: The Rude Mechs’ adaptation of Greil Marcus’ Lipstick Traces,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 19.2 (Spring 2005): 7-30.
“Re-imagining identity and Re-centering History in Tlaxcalan Performance,” Theatre Journal, 55.4 (December 2003): 633-655.
“Performing The Site of Complicity: A Re-evaluation of Fray Motolinia’s 1541 Account of the 1538 and 1539 Corpus Christi Festivals in Tlaxcala, Mexico,” Gestos 30, (November 2000): 31-49.
"Hebbel's Klara as Kierkegaard's Modern Antigone," Text and Presentation, (1999): 35-46.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | PhD | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| 1999 | MA | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| 1994 | BA | Columbia University |
Cogut Humanities Center Fellowship, Fall 2006
Hall Center Grant for Excellence in Teaching, Spring 2003
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, 2000-2001
American Society for Theatre Research
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Latin American Studies Association
| GNSS 2010Q - Pembroke Research Seminar: De-Colonial Retro-Speculation |
| GNSS 2020Q - Pembroke Research Seminar: De-Colonial Retro-Speculation |
| TAPS 0700 - Introduction to Theatre, Dance and Performance |
| TAPS 1230 - Global Theatre and Performance: Paleolithic to the Threshold of Modernity |
| TAPS 1240 - Performance Historiography and Theatre History |
| TAPS 1600 - Dramaturgy |
| TAPS 1610 - Political Theatre of the Americas |
| TAPS 2050 - Dramaturgy |
| TAPS 2200B - Neoliberalism and Performance |
| TAPS 2545 - Dramaturgy |
| TAPS 2545 - Playwriting and Dramaturgy |
| TAPS 2575 - Theatre History in a Changing Present |
