Frederick Luis Aldama
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
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]
Career
Aldama is an author of fiction and comics as well as a scholar and professor who uses insights from
He is book series editor of the
In 2017, Aldama published his first book of fiction, Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands.
Essays, interviews, and media appearances
Aldama's articles, reviews, and interviews have appeared in 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[40]
- 2022 Festival de Cine Latinoamericano NORTE. Honorable Mention. Mexico. Carlitos Chupacabra[41]
- 2021 International Latino Book Award Honorable Mention. Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities[42]
- 2021 Comics Studies Society Honorable Mention Award for Graphic Indigeneity [43]
- 2018–2019 Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award[44]
- 2018–2019 Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring[45]
- 2018 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics[46]
- 2018 International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction[47]
- 2017 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and inducted into the Academy of Teaching[48]
- 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[49]
- 2014 Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor[3]
- 2014 University Emerging Community Engagement Award[50]
- 2008 University Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award[51]
- 2004 MLA Award: Outstanding Scholarly Book Chicano/Latino Studies for Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas[52]
- 1999 Ford Foundation Fellowship[53]
Books published
As author
- Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie. OCLC 320192033.
- Dancing With Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas. Berkeley, CA: OCLC 57207131.
- Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity. Austin, TX: OCLC 62746185.
- Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Artists and Writers. Austin, TX: OCLC 69199653.
- Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach. Austin, TX: OCLC 179786739.
- Your Brain On Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez. Austin, TX: OCLC 429911628.
- A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction. Austin, TX: OCLC 288932889.
- The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature (1st ed.). New York, NY: OCLC 779258509.
- Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry. New York, NY: OCLC 829739896.
- Mex-Ciné: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century. Ann Arbor, MI: OCLC 844924402.
- Ilan, Stavans; Aldama, Frederick Luis (December 2013). ¡Muy Pop! Conversations on Latino Popular Culture. Ann Arbor, MI: 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: OCLC 860395198.
- Hogan, Patrick Colm; Aldama, Frederick Luis (February 2014). Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, Aesthetics. Columbus, OH: OCLC 861955952.
- The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez. Austin, TX: OCLC 878667406.
- Lindenberger, Herbert S.; Aldama, Frederick Luis (February 2016). Aesthetics of Discomfort: Conversations on Disquieting Art. Ann Arbor, MI: OCLC 930257206.
- Ilan, Stavans; Aldama, Frederick Luis (January 2016). Laughing Matters: Conversations on Humor. San Diego, CA: OCLC 940997852.
- Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands (in English and Spanish). Tucson, AZ: OCLC 965129760.
- Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. Tucson, AZ: OCLC 4183209848.
- González, Christopher; Aldama, Frederick Luis (December 2018). Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts. OCLC 1012346313.
- Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling. Pittsburgh, PA: OCLC 989035334.
- Nericcio, William Anthony; Aldama, Frederick Luis (November 2019). Talking #browntv: Latinas and Latinos on Screen. Columbus, OH: OCLC 9664323216.
- González, Christopher; Aldama, Frederick Luis (September 2019). Reel Latinxs: Representation in U.S. Film and TV. Tucson, AZ: OCLC 9491289522.
- The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie. OCLC 9477020784.
- Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie. Latinographix. Illustrations by Chris Escobar. Translation by Sonia Rodríguez Salazar. Columbus, OH: Mad Creek Books, August 2021. ISBN 978-0-8142-5801-9.
- Con Papá/With Papá. iIllustrated by Nicky Rodriguez. Mad Creek Books, 2022.
- Pyroclast. Illustrated by Guillermo Villarreal. Chispa Comics, 2023.[55]
- Through Fences. Illustrated by Oscar Garza. Mad Creek Books, 2024.
- The Absolutely (Almost) True Adventures of Max Rodriguez. Flowersong Press, 2024.
- Labyrinths Borne. Ad Astra Media, 2024. ISBN 979-8869173263[58]
As editor
- Islas, Arturo (2003). Arturo Islas: The Uncollected Works. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press. OCLC 606994143.
- Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas's Fictions. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe. July 2005. OCLC 55878022.
- Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle. Austin, TX: OCLC 773258062.
- Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts. Austin, TX: OCLC 471787942.
- Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. September 2011. OCLC 829884734.
- Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal. New York, NY: OCLC 845085678.
- Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez. Austin, TX: OCLC 881720711.
- Latino/a Literature in the Classroom: 21st Century Approaches to Teaching. London: OCLC 852219289.
- González, Christopher; Aldama, Frederick Luis, eds. (2016-04-12). Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future. Austin, TX: OCLC 920966195.
- The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture. New York, NY: OCLC 931226946.
- Padilla, Ricardo; L'Hoeste, Héctor Fernández; González, Christopher (January 2016). Latinx Comic Book Storytelling: An Odyssey by Interview (1st ed.). San Diego, CA: OCLC 973339575.
- Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology. OCLC 9480057522.
- Comics Studies Here and Now. New York, NY: OCLC 1022076511.
- The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture. OCLC 1038269645.
- The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies. OCLC 9415464108.
- Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century. Tucson, AZ: OCLC 9622110943.
- Jeff Smith: Conversations. Jackson, MS: OCLC 9621677892.
- Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia. Jackson, MS: OCLC 9604784836.
- 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.[59]
- United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel by Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren. Introduction: Smith, Amanda M.; Sheeran, Amy. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press. 2021.[60]
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