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Frederick Luis Aldama
Born (1969-03-06) March 6, 1969 (age 55)
Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation(s)University professor, author
AwardsEisner Award (2018)
Academic background
Alma materPhD, Stanford University (1999), BA, University of California, Berkeley (1992)
Academic work
Disciplinefiction, non-fiction, film studies, pop culture, comics
Notable worksLong Story Cut Short (2017), Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics (2018)
Websiteprofessorlatinx.com

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.

Early life and education

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][15]

Career

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.

He is book series editor of the Latinx and Latin American Profiles [16] (with the University of Pittsburgh Press) that publishes scholarship on innovative Latino cultural figures, such as Reading Junot Diaz[17] and Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi.[18] He edits the Global Media & Race[19] and Critical Graphics series (with Rutgers University Press).[20] 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[21] (for University of Arizona Press) as well as the World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction series (for the University of Texas Press).[22] Aldama edits Latinographix,[23] a comic books series that showcases graphic novels, memoir, and nonfiction by Latino 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.[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.

Essays, interviews, and media appearances

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,[36] PBS, Fox News Latino,[37] CNN, VOXXI, MSNBC,[38] Telemundo, The Washington Post,[39] the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Channel 10 news,[40] 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.

Selected awards

  • 2022 Honorable Mention. Media Arts Festival. University of North Texas. Carlitos Chupacabra[41]
  • 2022 Festival de Cine Latinoamericano NORTE. Honorable Mention. Mexico. Carlitos Chupacabra[42]
  • 2021 International Latino Book Award Honorable Mention. Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities[43]
  • 2021 Comics Studies Society Honorable Mention Award for Graphic Indigeneity [44]
  • 2018–2019 Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award[45]
  • 2018–2019 Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring[46]
  • 2018 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics[47]
  • 2018 International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction[48]
  • 2017 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and inducted into the Academy of Teaching[49]
  • 2016 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education's Outstanding Latino/a Faculty Award[6]
  • 2016 Ohio Education Summit Award[6]
  • 2015 White House "Hispanic Education Bright Spot" Award for founding and directing LASER[50] 
  • 2014 Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor[3]
  • 2014 University Emerging Community Engagement Award[51]
  • 2008 University Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award[52]
  • 2004 MLA Award: Outstanding Scholarly Book Chicano/Latino Studies for Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas[53]
  • 1999 Ford Foundation Fellowship[54]

Books published

As author

As editor

References

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  2. ^ "LASER Director named Distinguished University Professor". Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Ohio State University. 6 December 2019.
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  7. ^ "Humanities & Cognitive Science High School Summer Institute (HumCog)". Ohio State University. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  8. ^ "National Cartoonists Society". www.nationalcartoonists.com. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
  9. ^ "Frederick Aldama Inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
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  11. ^ "Academy of American Poets Elects UT English Professor to Its Board of Directors". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
  12. ^ Richardson, Robert (2023-03-23). "BIPOC Pop Brings Together Minority Comic Book Creators, Animators, and Filmmakers". Reporting Texas. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
  13. ^ "The Pilgrimage of Professor Latinx: Frederick Luis Aldama and the Making of an Academic Superhero". lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
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  15. ^ "Fiction as the Distillation and Reconstruction of Reality: An Interview with Frederick Luis Aldama regarding The Absolutely (Almost) True Adventures of Max Rodriguez By Daniel A. Olivas". LATINO BOOK REVIEW. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
  16. ^ "Latinx and Latin American Profiles". University of Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  17. ^ Gonzalez, Christopher (28 December 2015). Project MUSE - Reading Junot Diaz. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 9780822981244. Retrieved 2020-10-09. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
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  19. ^ "Series Descriptions". Rutgers University Press. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
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  23. ^ "Latinographix". Ohio State University Press.
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  25. ^ Sanchez, Casey (2016-11-17). ""Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions From the Borderlands" by Frederick Luis Aldama".
  26. ^ "Latinographix: The Ohio State Latinx Comics Series". Ohio State University Press. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  27. ^ "The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie". ohiostatepress.org. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
  28. ^ "Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics: The Documentary". Professor LatinX. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  29. ^ "SÕL-CON: The Brown and Black Comics Expo". Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Ohio State University. 2018. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  30. ^ "Past Executive Council Members". International Society for the Study of Narrative. Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship: Georgetown University.
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  32. ^ Dueben, Alex (24 September 2018). ""It's an Ideal Moment": An Interview with Frederick Aldama |". Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  33. ^ "About". Journal of Narrative Theory. Eastern Michigan University.
  34. ^ "Latino Studies: Editorial Board". Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press.
  35. ^ "Editors". American Book Review.
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  37. ^ Garcia, Victor (2013-02-22). "DC Comics Unveils Revamped Latino Superhero". Fox News. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  38. ^ "The barriers for Mexican filmmakers in the US". MSNBC. 2016-01-13. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  39. ^ "Can comics unite minority students? Today, Sol-Con founder tests his belief". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  40. ^ "Local professors look at how 'Captain Marvel' movie is changing comic book stereotypes". 10 WBNS. 2019-03-21.
  41. ^ "Media Arts Film Festival | Department of Media Arts". mediaarts.unt.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
  42. ^ "Carlitos Chupacabra" (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2023-05-23.
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  45. ^ Conkle, Madalynn (2019-03-29). "Aldama Receives Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award". Department of English. Ohio State University.
  46. ^ Podalsky, Laura (2019-03-27). "2018–2019 Rodica C. Botoman Award". Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University – via Facebook.
  47. ^ McMillan, Graeme (2018-07-21). "Eisner Awards: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter.
  48. ^ "Our 2018 International Latino Book Awards Winners". The University of Arizona Press. University of Arizona. 2018-09-10. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  49. ^ "OSU Arts & Sciences: News & Updates". College of Arts and Sciences. Ohio State University. 2017-04-05.
  50. ^ "ASC Spotlights: Frederick Luis Aldama".
  51. ^ "Emerging Community Engagement Award". Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Ohio State University. 2014-05-06.
  52. ^ "2008 Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award". Recognizing Excellence at Ohio State. Ohio State University.
  53. ^ "MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Winners". Modern Language Association. 2004.
  54. ^ "Directory of Ford Foundation Fellows". Ford Foundation Fellowship Program. National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2019-03-30.
  55. ^ "Con Papá / With Papá". ohiostatepress.org. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
  56. ^ "Pyroclast". scoutcomics.com/. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
  57. ^ "Through Fences". ohiostatepress.org. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
  58. ^ "The Absolutely (Almost) True Adventures of Max Rodriguez". flowersongpress.com. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
  59. ^ Aldama, Frederick Luis (9 February 2024). Labyrinths Borne. Ad Astra Media, LLC. ISBN 979-8-8691-7326-3. Retrieved 2024-01-23. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  60. ^ Poets, philosophers, lovers: on the writings of Giannina Braschi. Aldama, Frederick Luis, O'Dwyer, Tess. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Pittsburgh. 27 October 2020. ISBN 978-0-8229-4618-2. OCLC 1143649021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  61. ^ Braschi, Giannina (2021). United States of Banana: a graphic novel. Lindengren, Joakim, Smith, Amanda M., Sheeran, Amy. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-5786-9. OCLC 1191708270.