Frederick Luis Aldama

Aldama was born in Mexico City to a Guatemalan/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 Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999.[13]

Aldama uses narrative theory, cognitive science, and insights from Latinx & Latin American critical cultural theory in his teaching and scholarship on Latino & Latin American cultural phenomena: literature, art, music, film, TV, sports, video games, and comic books. He edits several book series, including the Contemporary Latinx & Latin American Profiles[14] series with the University of Pittsburgh Press, the Global Media & Race series and Critical Graphics series with Rutgers University Press.[15] He co-edits Latinx Pop Culture[16] for the University of Arizona Press, the Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture and Studies for the Ohio State University Press as well as the World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction for the University of Texas Press.[17] He also edits the Latinographix trade graphic and comic books series that showcase graphic novels, memoir, nonfiction, and more by Latinx writers and artists, including Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology. He is author of the forthcoming sci-fi graphic novel, 2041 and two children's book, With Papá[18][19] and The Adventures of Charlie the Chupacabra. Aldama's fiction and graphic fiction has been published in Santa Clara Review and Pacific Review, as well as in book form with Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands (2017). And, he is creator of the first documentary on the history of Latinx superheroes in mainstream comics.[20] He is co-founder and director of SÕL-CON: Brown & Black Comics Expo,[21] 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 sits on the executive council of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and on the editorial boards for journals such as Narrative, "INKS: The Journal of Comics Society", and The Journal of Narrative Theory. He is a member of the standing board for the Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies.

Aldama's articles, reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as 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: revista de estudios culturales latinoamericanos, Symplokē, Narrative, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Style, ELN, and Journal of the West. Interviews with Aldama have appeared in ABC News,[22] PBS, Fox News Latino,[23] CNN, VOXXI, MSNBC;[24] Telemundo; Washington Post, [25] Channel 10 news.[26]

Aldama's featured interviews with authors "Interventions" appears quarterly in the American Book Review, where he is also an Associate Editor.[27]

In 2017, Aldama published his first book of fiction, Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands.[28] Aldama's current fiction has been praised by Pasatiempo as "pitched perfect for depicting marginalized lives.[29]

• 2018-2019 Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award [30]
• 2018-2019 Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring.[31]
• 20 18 Eisner Winner-Best Academic/Scholarly Work Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics[32]
• 2018 International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction[33]
• 2017 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and inducted into the Academy of Teaching[34]
• 2016 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education’s Outstanding Latino/a Faculty Award
• 2016 Ohio Education Summit Award for Founding & Directing LASER
• 2015 White House “Hispanic Education Bright Spot” Award for Founding & Directing LASER  [35] 
• 2014 Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor[36]
• 2014 University Emerging Community Engagement Award[37]   
• 2013 City of Columbus Diversity & Outreach Award
• 2008 University Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award[38]
• 2004 MLA Award: Outstanding Scholarly Book Chicano/Latino Studies[39]
• 1999 Ford Foundation Fellowship[40]
• 1993-1996 Mellon Foundation Fellowship. Declined.

• Postethnic Narrative Criticism[41](University of Texas Press, 2003)
• Arturo Islas: The Uncollected Works[42] (Arte Público Press, 2003)
• Dancing With Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas.[43] Winner of the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies[44](University of California Press, 2004)
• Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity[45] (University of Texas Press, 2005)
• Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas's Narrative Fictions[46] (Bilingual Press], 2005)
• Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Artists and Writers[47] (University of Texas Press, 2006)
• Why the Humanities Matter: A Common Sense Approach[48] (University of Texas Press, 2008)
• Your Brain On Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez"[49] (University of Texas Press, 2008)
• A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction [50](University of Texas Press, 2009)
• Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle[51] (University of Texas Press, 2010)
• Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts[52] (University of Texas Press, 2010)
• Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory[53] (University of Texas Press, 2011)
• The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature [54](Routledge, 2012)
• Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry[55] (Palgrave, 2013)
• Mex-Ciné: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century[56] (University of Michigan Press, 2013)
• Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal[57] (Palgrave, 2013)
• ¡Muy Pop! Conversations on Latino Popular Culture. Co-authored with Ilan Stavans[58] (University of Michigan, 2013)
• Latinos in the End Zone: Conversations on the Brown Color Line in the NFL. Co-authored with Christopher González[59] (Palgrave, 2013)
• Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, Aesthetics. Co-authored with Patrick Colm Hogan[60] (Ohio State U Press, 2014)
• The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez[61]. (University of Texas Press, 2014)
• Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez.[62] (University of Texas Press, 2015)
• Latino Literature in the Classroom: 21st Century Approaches to Teaching[63] (Routledge, 2015)
• The Aesthetics of Discomfort. Co-authored with Herbert Lindenberger.[64](University of Michigan Press, 2016).
• Laughing Matters: Conversations on Humor. Co-authored with Ilan Stavans.[65](San Diego State University Press,2016)
• Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future. Co-edited with Christopher González.[66] (University of Texas Press, 2016)
• The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture[67]. (Routledge, 2016)
• Latinx Comic Book Storytelling: An Odyssey by Interview.[68] San Diego State University Press, 2016
• Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands. English & Spanish. Fiction.Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017[69]
• Latinx Superhero in the Mainstream.[70] Eisner Award Winner: Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017
• Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology (Latinographix).[71] Editor: Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2018
• Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts. Co-authored with Christopher González. (Routledge, 2018)[72]
• Comics Studies Here and Now Editor. (Routledge, 2018)[73]
• The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Pop Culture in Latin America. Editor (Routledge, 2018)[74]
• Latino/a Children and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018)[75]
• The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies (Oxford University Press, 2019).[76]
• Talking #browntv: Latinas and Latinos on Screen (OSU Press, 2019).[77]
• Reel Latinxs: Representation in US Film & TV. Co-authored with Christopher González (University of Arizona Press, 2019).[78]
• Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century (University of Arizona Press, 2019). Editor.[79]
• Jeff Smith: Conversations. University Press of Mississippi (November 15, 2019). Editor[80]
• Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia (June 4, 2020). Editor.[81]
• The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (June 1, 2020). Author.[82]