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Frederick Luis Aldama

Frederick Luis Aldama (otherwise known as Professor Latinx) is an American author and editor of over 50 books, including the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work for ''Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics''.[https://uapress.arizona.edu/2018/07/frederick-luis-aldamas-latinx-superheros-in-mainstream-comics-takes-home-eisner]

He holds the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at UT Austin where he is founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab at the University of Texas, Austin. At UT Austin he is also affiliate faculty in Mexican American/ Latino Studies and LLILAS (Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies). He continues to hold affiliate faculty status as former Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University.

He teaches courses grounded in Storytelling Science that focus on Latino pop culture, especially in the areas of comics, TV, film, animation, and video games 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 LASER/Latinx Space for Enrichment Research and founder and director of the Humanities & Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute.

He has been inducted into the National Academy of Teachers, National Cartoonist Society, the Texas Institute of Letters, the Ohio State University's Hall of Fame, and as board of directors for the Academy of American Poets. 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 as well as Editor-in-Chief at Flowersong Press as well as founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Latinx Pop Magazine. Provided by Wikipedia