Frederick Luis Aldama is an American author,editor,and academic. He is the Jacob &Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab at the University of Texas,Austin.[1] At UT Austin is also affiliate faculty in Latino Media Arts &Studies and LGBTQ Studies. He continues to hold the title Distinguished University Professor[2] as adjunct professor at The Ohio State University.[3] He teaches courses on Latino pop culture,especially focused on the areas of comics,TV,film,animation,and video games in the departments of English and Radio-Television-Film at UT Austin. At the Ohio State University he was Distinguished University Professor,Arts &Humanities Distinguished Professor of English,University Distinguished Scholar,and Alumni Distinguished Teacher as well as recipient of the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring and the Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award. He was also founder and director of the award-winning LASER/Latinx Space for Enrichment Research[4][5][6] and founder and co-director of the Humanities &Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute.[7] In has been inducted into the National Academy of Teachers,National Cartoonist Society,[8] the Texas Institute of Letters,[9] the Ohio State University's Office of Diversity &Inclusion Hall of Fame,[10] and as board of directors for The Academy of American Poets.[11] He sits on the boards for American Library Association Graphic Novel and Comics Round Table,BreakBread Literacy Project,and Ad Astra Media. He is founder and director of UT Austin's BIPOC POP:Comics,Gaming &Animation Arts Expo &Symposium[12] as well as Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Latinx Pop Magazine.
Aldama is an author of fiction and comics as well as a scholar and professor who uses insights from narrative theory,cognitive science,and Latino critical cultural theory to enrich understanding of the creation,distribution,and consumption of Latino pop cultural phenomena,especially comic books,TV,film,and animation.
In 2017,Aldama published his first book of fiction,Long Stories Cut Short:Fictions from the Borderlands.[24] His flash fiction style depicts marginalized Latino lives on both sides of the US/Mexico border.[25] He is the author of the children's books,Con Papá / With Papá[26] and The Adventures of Charlie the Chupacabra (English 2020;Spanish 221).[27] He wrote and produced the award-winning animation film Carlitos Chupacabra as well as produced the first documentary film on the history of Latino superheroes in mainstream comics.[28] He co-founded and directed of SÕL-CON:The Brown,Black,&Indigenous Comics Expo.[29] He is founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab BIPOC Comics &Multimedia Arts Expo &Symposium at UT Austin—the nation's only collegiate comic book expo that focuses on the work of BIPOC scholars,artists,writers,editors,filmmakers,and illustrators. He served on the executive council of the International Society for the Study of Narrative from 2013 to 2015,[30] and serves on the advisory boards for journals such as Narrative,[31]INKS:The Journal of Comics Society,[32]MELUS, and Journal of Narrative Theory.[33] He is a member of the board for the Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies.[34] He is an associate editor of American Book Review[35] and judge for the TIL/Texas Institute of Letters.
González, Christopher; Aldama, Frederick Luis (2013-11-15). Latinos in the End Zone: Conversations on the Brown Color Line in the NFL. New York, NY: Palgrave Pivot. ISBN978-1137403087. OCLC860395198.
Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie. Latinographix. Illustrations by Chris Escobar. Translation by Sonia Rodríguez Salazar. Columbus, OH: Mad Creek Books, August 2021. ISBN978-0-8142-5801-9.
Con Papá/With Papá. iIllustrated by Nicky Rodriguez. Mad Creek Books, 2022. ISBN978-0-8142-1521-0[55]
Pyroclast. Illustrated by Guillermo Villarreal. Chispa Comics, 2023.[56]
Padilla, Ricardo; L'Hoeste, Héctor Fernández; González, Christopher (January 2016). Latinx Comic Book Storytelling: An Odyssey by Interview (1sted.). San Diego, CA: Hyperbole Books. ISBN978-1938537929. OCLC973339575.
Aldama, Frederick Luis; O'Dwyer, Tess; and Stavans, Ilan. Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. (Latinx and Latin American Profiles) Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. October 2020. 9780822946182.[60]
↑ "LASER Home | LASER". Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Ohio State University. 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
↑ Poets, philosophers, lovers: on the writings of Giannina Braschi. Aldama, Frederick Luis, O'Dwyer, Tess. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Pittsburgh. 27 October 2020. ISBN978-0-8229-4618-2. OCLC1143649021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
↑ Braschi, Giannina (2021). United States of Banana: a graphic novel. Lindengren, Joakim, Smith, Amanda M., Sheeran, Amy. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press. ISBN978-0-8142-5786-9. OCLC1191708270.
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