Frederick Luis Aldama | |
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Born | Mexico City, Mexico | March 6, 1969
Occupation(s) | University professor, author |
Awards | Eisner Award (2018) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | PhD, Stanford University (1999), BA, University of California, Berkeley (1992) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | fiction,non-fiction,film studies,pop culture,comics |
Notable works | Long Story Cut Short (2017),Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics (2018) |
Website | professorlatinx |
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 Latinx 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 was born in Mexico City to a Guatemalan- and Irish-American mother from Los Angeles and a Mexican father from Mexico City. When he was a child,his mother moved the family to California. [13] He received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in English from the University of California,Berkeley in 1992 and obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1999. [14]
Aldama is an author of fiction and comics as well as a scholar and professor who uses insights from narrative theory,cognitive science,and Latinx critical cultural theory to enrich understanding of the creation,distribution,and consumption of Latinx pop cultural phenomena,especially comic books,TV,film,and animation.
He is book series editor of the Latinx and Latin American Profiles [15] (with the University of Pittsburgh Press) that publishes scholarship on innovative Latinx cultural figures,such as Reading Junot Diaz [16] and Poets,Philosophers,Lovers:On the Writings of Giannina Braschi . [17] He edits the Global Media &Race [18] and Critical Graphics series (with Rutgers University Press). [19] He edits the Biographix series (University Press of Mississippi) that provides critical insight to key figures in comics. He co-edits the Global Latin/o Americas series (the Ohio State University Press), Latinx Pop Culture [20] (for University of Arizona Press) as well as the World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction series (for the University of Texas Press). [21] Aldama edits Latinographix, [22] a comic books series that showcases graphic novels,memoir,and nonfiction by Latinx writers and artists,including Tales from la Vida:A Latinx Comics Anthology and United States of Banana:A Graphic Novel by Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren.
In 2017,Aldama published his first book of fiction,Long Stories Cut Short:Fictions from the Borderlands. [23] His flash fiction style depicts marginalized Latinx lives on both sides of the US/Mexico border. [24] He is the author of the children's books,Con Papá / With Papá [25] and The Adventures of Charlie the Chupacabra (English 2020;Spanish 221). [26] He wrote and produced the award-winning animation film Carlitos Chupacabra as well as produced the first documentary film on the history of Latinx superheroes in mainstream comics. [27] He co-founded and directed of SÕL-CON:The Brown,Black,&Indigenous Comics Expo. [28] 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, [29] and serves on the advisory boards for journals such as Narrative, [30] INKS:The Journal of Comics Society, [31] MELUS, and Journal of Narrative Theory . [32] He is a member of the board for the Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies. [33] He is an associate editor of American Book Review [34] and judge for the TIL/Texas Institute of Letters.
Aldama's articles,reviews,and interviews have appeared in Aztlán ,College Literature,Poets &Writers, World Literature Today ,Cross Cultural Poetics,Lit:Literature Interpretation Theory,Lucero, Comparative Literature , The Callaloo Journal ,Nepantla,Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Analysis, American Literature , Latin American Research Review , Modern Fiction Studies , Modern Drama , SubStance ,Style,ImageTexT,Latino Studies Projections:The Journal of Movies and Mind,Alter/nativas:Latin American Cultural Studies Journal,and Journal of the West . Interviews with Aldama have appeared in ABC News, [35] PBS,Fox News Latino, [36] CNN,VOXXI,MSNBC, [37] Telemundo,The Washington Post, [38] the New York Times,the Los Angeles Review of Books,Channel 10 news, [39] Hispanic Living;Listin Diario; Spain's Efe;KETR Radio,and KCET's Artbound “Love &Rockets”documentary His the podcast host for "Into the COLA-verse" that listeners on the unique journeys of faculty in the College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin.
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