I sat down with The AI-Augmented Scholar to talk about why the five-paragraph essay has run its course, why policing AI is a losing game, and why the work I want from students is hybrid intelligence: messy, imaginative, human thinking that uses AI as a tool and never hands it the whole job. AI can simulate “what if.” It can’t yet do “what if.” That part still belongs to us. Full 27-minute conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vvtlwHIWbg

Latinx Literature: A Very Short Introduction is now an unabridged audiobook, read by Robb Moreira. Listen for 99¢ on Amazon.

Frederick Luis Aldama (Professor Latinx) will be tabling, signing books, and reading from his children's book Con Papá / With Papá at MexAmeriCon 2026, Saturday, October 31, 11 AM to 5 PM at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin. Free and open to all ages.

The Daily Texan on what happens at Professor Latinx's Latinx Pop Lab all year, not just for one month. "Celebrating the joy of being Latino and all of the things we offer to our culture at large is something that's really transformative"—Frederick Luis Aldama Reporting by Kady Martinez: https://thedailytexan.com/2026/09/17/latinx-pop-lab-celebrates-latine-hispanic-heritage-month/

What I noticed was completely against what I had been trained to think would be the winner, which is someone who was doing a more high-intensity kind of move [. . .] the one that won was the one who just brought the kind of aura, the glow of absolute total composure."

Frederick Luis Aldama received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the City of Austin's Awards of Excellence ceremony on Saturday, August 1. The awards were presented by the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (ESB MACC). Read more HERE!

200,000 endowment honors English majors at OSU

Special exhibit at University of Salzburg showcases the emotional power and artistic innovation of Latinx comics The University of Salzburg has turned its gallery walls into a vivid celebration of Latinx storytelling, featuring the graphic novel work of Professor Frederick Luis Aldama, holder of the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at The University of Texas at Austin. Bettina Egger and Agustín Corti’s curated exhibition, "BorderLines – Emotions | L

Through a series of questions with me, Cal Alumni Magazine's Urja Upadhyaya put together this story of how my time at Cal ('92) launched my career. It was at Berkeley where I discovered that stories could serve as blueprints for justice and found the freedom to merge intellect with imagination. Now as the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at UT Austin, I lead the Latinx Pop Lab and BIPOC Pop Symposium, transforming classrooms into creative studios where

Food and sports aren't just rituals—they're where Latinx cultures, histories, and identities are forged, preserved, and transformed. Our new anthology From Cocinas to Lucha LIbre Ringsides disrupts stereotypes and celebrates joy, humor, and complexity.

In this episode, host Daniel Chacón sits down with Fredrick Luis Aldama—the award-winning author, theorist, and editor known as Professor Latinx—to explore how stories shape our minds, our culture, and even our bodies. Aldama discusses his astonishingly prolific career, from editing FlowerSong Press and launching the Brown Ink imprint to teaching courses on narrative, wellness, and smartphone storytelling. Their conversation moves from literature to neuroscience to video game

Why Latinx storytelling matters and how we're building spaces where our narratives can breathe, grow, and thrive.