UMass Boston

Language, Literature, and Rhetoric, Professional Writing in Public and Community Service

PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago

• “Why Writing,” (2015), in Writing for the Curious: Why Study Writing The Curious Academic Publishing.
• “Feeling Like A Failure,” In 100 Plus True Stories, Cambridge Brick House Books (CBH Books), (June 2010).
• Ybarra, Raul (2004). Writing as a Hostile Act: A Reason for Latino Students Resistance to Learning to Write, New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
• Ybarra, Raul (2004). Creating Alternative Discourses in the Education of Latinos and Latinas: A Reader, Edited Book co-edited with Dr. Nancy Lopez, Dept. of Sociology, University of New Mexico. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
• “I am a Man ,” In Estelle Disch’s Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology, 4th Edition, High Bridge, NJ: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. August 2004.
• “The Negative Affects of Teaching the Academic Discourse to Latino Students” The Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies 1(2), Spring 2004, pp. 75-92.
• “Cultural Dissonance in Basic Writing Courses,” Journal of Basic Writing 2, 1 2001, Pp. 22-37.
• “Latino Students and Anglo-Mainstream Instructors: An Ethnographic Study of Classroom Communication.” Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice 2, 2, 2000, Pp. 161-171.

Professor Ybarra has been teaching undergraduate courses in writing at CPCS since 1995. His area of expertise is in communication difficulties and cultural differences between Latino students and anglo/mainstream instructors, and writing difficulties that Latino students have in English. He advises students on preparing a writing professional writing portfolio in a professional writing seminar for upper-level foundation students, and facilitates writing workshops that prepare students to improve and enhance their writing skills. He is also the faculty advisor to the Latino student organization CASA LATINA.