published his first book of fiction, Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands. His flash fiction style depicts marginalized Latinx lives on both sides of the US/Mexico border. He is the author of the children's books, With Papá and The Adventures of Charlie the Chupacabra. He produced the first documentary film on the history of Latinx superheroes in mainstream comics. He co-founded and directed of SÕL-CON: The Brown, Black, & Indigenous Comics Expo. He is founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab BIPOC Comics & Multimedia Arts Expo & Symposium at UT Austin--the nation's only collegiate comic book expo that focuses on the work of BIPOC scholars, artists, writers, editors, filmmakers, and illustrators. He served on the executive council of the International Society for the Study of Narrative from 2013 to 2015, and serves on the advisory boards for journals such as Narrative, INKS: The Journal of Comics Society, MELUS, and Journal of Narrative Theory. He is a member of the board for the Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies. He is an associate editor of American Book Review and judge for the TIL/Texas Institute of Letters. Essays and interviews Aldama's articles, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Aztlán, College Literature, Poets & Writers, World Literature Today, Cross Cultural Poetics, Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, Lucero, Comparative Literature, The Callaloo Journal, Nepantla, Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Analysis, American Literature, Latin American Research Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Drama, SubStance, Style, ImageTexT, Latino Studies Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind, Alter/nativas: Latin American Cultural Studies Journal, and Journal of the West. Interviews with Aldama have appeared in ABC News, PBS, Fox News Latino, CNN, VOXXI, MSNBC, Telemundo, The Washington Post, the New York Times, the LARB, and Channel 10 news. Selected awards 2018–2019 Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award 2018–2019 Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring 2018 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics 2018 International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction 2017 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and inducted into the Academy of Teaching 2016 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education's Outstanding Latino/a Faculty Award 2016 Ohio Education Summit Award 2015 White House "Hispanic Education Bright Spot" Award for founding and directing LASER 2014 Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor 2014 University Emerging Community Engagement Award 2008 University Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award 2004 MLA Award: Outstanding Scholarly Book Chicano/Latino