Frederick Luis Aldama

Frederick Luis Aldama is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin and holds an adjunct University Distinguished Professor appointment at Ohio State University. 

Aldama is the recipient of the 2019 Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring, the Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award, and an Eisner Award for Best Scholarly Work. He has authored and edited more than forty books, including Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics (University of Arizona Press, 2018), as well as works on Latinx formalist poetry, the Latinx vanguard, and Latinx queer literature. Aldama is the author of numerous fictional works, such as Con Papá / With Papá (The Ohio State University Press, 2022); The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (The Ohio State University Press, 2020); and Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands (University of Arizona Press, 2017). He is the editor of Latinographix, a series at The Ohio State University Press that publishes Latinx graphic fiction and nonfiction. 

Aldama is the cocreator of the documentary film Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics and the animation short Carlitos Chupacabra. He is founder and director of UT Austin’s Latinx Pop Lab and BIPOC Pop: Symposium & Expo; founder of the Obama White House’s award-winning LASER: Latinx Space for Enrichment & Research; and sits on the board of BreakBread Literacy Project, a program dedicated to cultivating youth poets, artists, and writers. Professor Aldama holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD from Stanford University.