A proud winner of Drexel Student Government's Student Choice Award for “Most Passionate Professor,” she has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Ibieta has presented her work at national and international conferences and is the author of Tradition and Renewal in La gloria de don Ramiro; editor of Latin American Writers: 30 stories; and co-editor of Inventing America: Readings in Identity and Culture. Her essays have been published in numerous academic journals and in the books Literature and Exile and Remembering Cuba: The Legacy of a Diaspora.