Frederick Luis Aldama

Frederick Luis Aldama holds the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin and is also founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab and the annual BIPOC PoP: Comics, Gaming & Animation Arts Expo & Symposium. He is an award-winning author, co-author, and editor of over 50 books, including The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture (2016), Comics Studies Here and Now (2018), and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comics Studies (2020). He is also an author of fiction, including children's books and comics. Aldama is also Editor-in-Chief of Latinx Pop Magazine and FlowerSong Press and edits ten academic and creative book series while curating the Latinographix and Brown Ink graphic novel series.