Ohio State professor Frederick Aldama, co-creator and director of SOL-CON. Debbie Holmes / WOSU The growing racial diversity of Columbus inspired an Ohio State University English professor to create an exposition for black and brown comic artists and animators. Now in its fifth year, “SÕL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo” brings together students, [...]
Left: Mario Grill; Right: Frederick Luis Aldama Frederick Luis Aldama is a cognitive cultural studies scholar and one of the leading figures in Latinx Studies. His work is therefore of central importance to our research at the Narrative Encounters Project. As Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor, he teaches Latinx literature, comics, film, and pop [...]
Professor Latinx talks with Dr. Abate about her journey to comics studies, how she sees her work intervening intellectually, creatively, politically in the academy and the world, what she likes to teach, and her new book, Funny Girls, among many other topics.