Edmond Y. Chang, Ph.D.

Dr. Edmond Y. Chang is an associate professor of English at Ohio University. His areas of research include technoculture; race, gender, and sexuality; video games, analog games, LARP, queer game studies; feminist media studies; cultural studies; popular culture; and 20/21Century American literature. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on queer American literature, speculative literature of color, virtual worlds, games, everyday media, and writing.  

Recent publications include “‘Do They See Me as a Virus?’: Imagining Asian American (Environmental) Games” in American Studies, “Why are the Digital Humanities So Straight?” in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, “Drawing the Oankali: Imagining Race, Gender, and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler’s Dawn” in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler, and “Queergaming” in Queer Game Studies. 

He is the creator of Tellings , a high fantasy tabletop RPG, and Archaea , a live-action role-playing game. He is also an Assistant Editor for Analog Game Studies and a Contributing Editor for Gamers with Glasses .

Chang was also awarded the 2023 Chairs and Directors Emerging Leadership Award.