Frederick Luis Aldama

Frederick Luis Aldama is an American academic who is a Distinguished University Professor,[1] Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, and University Distinguished Scholar at The Ohio State University.[2] He teaches courses in the departments of English, Spanish, and Portuguese covering Latino and Latin American cultural phenomena.[3] He is also a member of the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences.[4] He is the author, co-author, or editor of thirty six books, including Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics.[5] He is the founder and director of Latinx Space for Enrichment Research (LASER).[6][7] In 2016, Aldama received the Ohio Education Summit Award for founding and directing LASER.[8] He is the founder and co-director of the Humanities & Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute at The Ohio State University.[9] Aldama is the creator and curator of the Planetary Republic of Comics.[10]

Frederick Luis Aldama
Aldama at Boise Comic Arts Festival (BCAF) 2020
Born (1969-03-06) March 6, 1969
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationUniversity 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

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. 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.[3]

Career

Aldama uses narrative theory, cognitive science, and insights from Latinx and Latin American critical cultural theory in his teaching and scholarship on Latino and Latin American cultural phenomena: literature, art, music, film, TV, sports, video games, and comic books.

He has edited several book series, including the Latinx and Latin American Profiles series[11] (with the University of Pittsburgh Press) that publishes scholarship on innovative Latinx cultural figures, such as Reading Junot Diaz[12] and Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi.[13] He also edits the Global Media & Race[14] and Critical Graphics series (with Rutgers University Press).[15] He co-edits Latinx Pop Culture[16] (for University of Arizona Press), the Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture[17] as well as the World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction series (for the University of Texas Press).[18] Aldama edits Latinographix,[19] 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.[20] His flash fiction style depicts marginalized lives.[21] He is the author of the sci-fi graphic novel 2041 and two children's books, With Papá[22] and The Adventures of Charlie the Chupacabra. He created the documentary film on the history of Latinx superheroes in mainstream comics.[23] He co-founded and directed of SÕL-CON: The Brown, Black, & Indigenous Comics Expo,[24] the nation's only collegiate comic book expo that focuses on the work of Black and Latinx artists, writers, editors, inkers, pencillers, filmmakers, and authors. He served on the executive council of the International Society for the Study of Narrative from 2013 to 2015,[25] and the advisory boards for journals such as Narrative,[26] INKS: The Journal of Comics Society,[27] and Journal of Narrative Theory.[28] He is a member of the board for the Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies.[29] He is an associate editor of American Book Review.[30]

Essays and interviews

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,[31] PBS, Fox News Latino,[32] CNN, VOXXI, MSNBC,[33] Telemundo, The Washington Post,[34] and Channel 10 news.[35]

Selected awards
  • 2018–2019 Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award[36]
  • 2018–2019 Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring[37]
  • 2018 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics[38]
  • 2018 International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction[39]
  • 2017 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and inducted into the Academy of Teaching[40]
  • 2016 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education's Outstanding Latino/a Faculty Award[8]
  • 2016 Ohio Education Summit Award[8]
  • 2015 White House "Hispanic Education Bright Spot" Award for founding and directing LASER[41] 
  • 2014 Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor[2]
  • 2014 University Emerging Community Engagement Award[42]   
  • 2008 University Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award[43]
  • 2004 MLA Award: Outstanding Scholarly Book Chicano/Latino Studies for Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas[44]
  • 1999 Ford Foundation Fellowship[45]

Books published

As author
  • Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie. University of Texas Press. August 2009. ISBN 9780292722101. OCLC 320192033.
  • Dancing With Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. December 2004. ISBN 9780520243927. OCLC 57207131.
  • Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. January 2005. ISBN 978-0-292-70940-9. OCLC 62746185.
  • Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Artists and Writers. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. January 2006. ISBN 978-0-292-71312-3. OCLC 69199653.
  • Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. July 2008. ISBN 9780292717985. OCLC 179786739.
  • Your Brain On Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. June 2009. ISBN 978-0-292-71973-6. OCLC 429911628.
  • A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. January 2009. ISBN 978-0-292-72577-5. OCLC 288932889.
  • The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. January 2013. ISBN 9780415667876. OCLC 779258509.
  • Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. July 2013. ISBN 9780230391635. OCLC 829739896.
  • Mex-Ciné: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. December 2013. ISBN 9780472029129. OCLC 844924402.
  • Ilan, Stavans; Aldama, Frederick Luis (December 2013). ¡Muy Pop! Conversations on Latino Popular Culture. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472029440. OCLC 874149423.
  • 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. ISBN 978-1137403087. OCLC 860395198.
  • Hogan, Patrick Colm; Aldama, Frederick Luis (February 2014). Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, Aesthetics. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 9780814212431. OCLC 861955952.
  • The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2014-10-15. ISBN 9780292761216. OCLC 878667406.
  • Lindenberger, Herbert S.; Aldama, Frederick Luis (February 2016). Aesthetics of Discomfort: Conversations on Disquieting Art. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472073009. OCLC 930257206.
  • Ilan, Stavans; Aldama, Frederick Luis (January 2016). Laughing Matters: Conversations on Humor. San Diego, CA: Hyperbole Books. ISBN 978-1938537912. OCLC 940997852.
  • Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands (in English and Spanish). Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. 2017-02-07. ISBN 9780816536115. OCLC 965129760.
  • Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. October 2017. ISBN 9780816537082. OCLC 4183209848.
  • González, Christopher; Aldama, Frederick Luis (December 2018). Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138088443. OCLC 1012346313.
  • Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. January 2018. ISBN 082296497X. OCLC 989035334.
  • Nericcio, William Anthony; Aldama, Frederick Luis (November 2019). Talking #browntv: Latinas and Latinos on Screen. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 0814255590. OCLC 9664323216.
  • González, Christopher; Aldama, Frederick Luis (September 2019). Reel Latinxs: Representation in U.S. Film and TV. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0816539588. OCLC 9491289522.
  • The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie. Latinographix. Illustrations by Chris Escobar. Columbus, OH: Mad Creek Books. June 2020. ISBN 978-0814255865. OCLC 9477020784.
  • 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.[46]

As editor

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