Frederick Luis Aldama

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 Latinx 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.