Frederick Luis Aldama

Frederick Luis Aldama (born 1969) is Professor of English and Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University, where he teaches Latino/a and Post-colonial literature, film, and comics, as well as narrative theory and cognitive science.

Aldama obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999. He received his undergraduate degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992 [http://www.alumni.berkeley.edu/CAA_News_and_Press_Releases/Alum_of_the_Week/frederick_luis_aldama.asp] .

Aldama uses narrative theory and cognitive science in his teaching and scholarship on Latino and Postcolonial literature, art, music, film, and comic books. He is the author and editor of six books, including "Postethnic Narrative Criticism, Brown on Brown", and the MLA-award winning "Dancing With Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas". His latest book, published in 2008, is "Why the Humanities Matter: A Common Sense Approach". Along with Patrick Colm Hogan and Arturo Aldama, he is series editor of "Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture" with the University of Texas Press. He sits on the editorial boards of "Narrative", "Journal of Narrative Theory" and "Narrative & Image". [http://english.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=2078] He is also a founding member, along with David Herman, Brian McHale, and James Phelan, Literary Scholar, of [http://projectnarrative.osu.edu Project Narrative] , an initiative at [http://projectnarrative.osu.edu The Ohio State University.

Aldama's articles 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", "Callaloo", "Nepantla, Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Analysis", "American Literature", "Latin American Research Review", "Modern Fiction Studies" and "Modern Drama".

Books

* "Postethnic Narrative Criticism" ( [http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/aldpos.html University of Texas Press] , 2003)
* "Dancing With Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas" [University of California Press, 2004)
* "Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity" ( [http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/aldbro.html, University of Texas Press] , 2005)
* "Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Artists and Writers" ( [http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/aldspi.html University of Texas Press] , 2006)
* "Why the Humanities Matter: A Common Sense Approach" ( [http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/aldwhy.html University of Texas Press, 2008] )

He is editor of "Arturo Islas: The Uncollected Works" and "Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas's Narrative Fictions".

References

* [http://english.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=2078 OSU Department of English]
* [http://www.humanitiesretooled.org/ Humanities Retooled Website]
* [http://www.alumni.berkeley.edu/CAA_News_and_Press_Releases/Alum_of_the_Week/frederick_luis_aldama.asp California Alumni Association at UC Berkeley Press Release]