English Department People
Frederick Luis Aldama, Professor
Office Information
573 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Phone: 614-247-8890
Office Hours:
Fall'09 Weds: 1-2:30 AND By appointment.
Personal URL(s):
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/aldama1/
and: http://www.humanitiesretooled.com
573 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Phone: 614-247-8890
Office Hours:
Fall'09 Weds: 1-2:30 AND By appointment.
Personal URL(s):
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/aldama1/
and: http://www.humanitiesretooled.com
Frederick Aldama, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, uses the tools of 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 nine books, including Postethnic Narrative Criticism, Brown on Brown, and the MLA-award winning Dancing With Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas, Why the Humanities Matter: A Common Sense Approach, Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez, and A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction. 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: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/subjects/calc.html He sits on the editorial boards of Narrative, Journal of Narrative Theory and Narrative and Image as well as Texas Tech UP's The Americas book series: http://www.ttup.ttu.edu/americas.html He is currently also Director of Latino Studies:http://latino-astudies.osu.edu/ He is co-coordinator with Jim Phelan of the Narration and Cognition Working Group: http://icrph.osu.edu/collaborativeResearch/workingGroups/groupDesc.cfm?WG=6 To view "Mexico in Cinema" lecture cut and paste into RealPlayer the following: rtsp://streaming1.osu.edu/media3/eng578wi09/031109-review.rm Visit: www.yourbrainonlatinocomics.blogspot.com
