He is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab at the University of Texas, Austin.
[3] He teaches courses on Latino pop culture, especially focused on the areas of comics, TV, film, animation, and video games in the departments of English and Radio-Television-Film at UT Austin.
[11] He sits on the boards for American Library Association Graphic Novel and Comics Round Table, BreakBread Literacy Project, and Ad Astra Media.
[14][15] Aldama is an author of fiction and comics as well as a scholar and professor who uses insights from narrative theory, cognitive science, and Latino critical cultural theory to enrich understanding of the creation, distribution, and consumption of Latino pop cultural phenomena, especially comic books, TV, film, and animation.
He is book series editor of the Latinx and Latin American Profiles [16] (with the University of Pittsburgh Press) that publishes scholarship on innovative Latino cultural figures, such as Reading Junot Diaz[17] and Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi.
[22] Aldama edits Latinographix,[23] a comic books series that showcases graphic novels, memoir, and nonfiction by Latino writers and artists, including Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology and United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel by Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren.