Frederick Luis Aldama

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at The Ohio State University, United States. In the departments of English as well as Spanish & Portuguese he teaches courses on Latino/a and Latin American cultural phenomena, including literature, film, TV, music, and comic books. He is also affiliate faculty of the Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging. He is the author,co-author, and editor of twenty-four books. He is founder and director of the White House Hispanic Bright Spot awarded LASER/Latino and Latin American Space for Enrichment Research. He is founder and co-director of Humanities & Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute at The Ohio State University. He has been honored with the 2016 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education’s Outstanding Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education award.

Biography

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.

Aldama uses narrative theory, cognitive science, and insights from Latino and Latin American critical cultural theory in his teaching and scholarship on Latino and Latin American cultural phenomena: literature, art, music, film, TV, and comic books. He edits several book series, including the Contemporary Latino & Latin American Profiles series with the Pittsburgh University Press as well as co-edits Latin@ Pop Culture for the University of Arizona Press, the Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture and Global Latin/o Studiesfor the Ohio State University Press as well the World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction for the University of Texas Press. 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 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 and Journal of the West, among others. Interviews have appeared in PBS, Fox News Latino, CNN, VOXXI, MSNBC, among others.

Aldama's Spanish language editorial "Historias Sin Fin" appears monthly in El Sol de Ohio

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