Frederick Luis Aldama (also known as Professor Latinx) was born in Mexico to a Guatemalan-Irish American mamá from East LA and a Mexican papá from Mexico City, grew up in north-central California, and holds the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He founded UT Austin’s Latinx Pop Lab and its yearly BIPOC PoP Expo & Symposium. He serves as editor-in-chief of Latinx Pop Magazine and FlowerSong Press. He is the author or editor of over 50 books that span award-winning biographies and scholarly works as well as comics, graphic novels, young-adult fiction, and children’s books. He curates ten academic and creative book series. His contributions to literature, art, and education have been honored by the Obama White House, and he has been inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters and The Ohio State University’s Hall of Fame.
Frederick is joining the festival to discuss From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology, which he coedited.
