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Cal Alumni Magazine Presents: Professor Latinx: Frederick Luis Aldama on Story, Justice, and the Worlds We Build

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

3 days ago

Q&A: Frederick Luis Aldama and Angela M. Sánchez Explore Latine Food and Sports through Comics

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.

Nov 14

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Why We Tell Stories—And How They Keep Transforming Us

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 gam

Nov 14