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.  

Younge, Professor of Music at Ohio University, is currently the Executive and Music Director of Azaguno, Inc., a multi-ethnic ensemble based in Athens, Ohio that focuses on research, preservation, and performance of African, African American, Caribbean, and Latin American Music and Dance.

Camper Moore is an assistant professor of Dance at Ohio University and heads the Master of Arts Administration program. She teaches undergraduate technique and composition, and graduate dance pedagogy and arts management courses. Most recently, Camper Moore received the prestigious University Professor Award (2022-2023) at Ohio University, which recognizes outstanding undergraduate teaching.

Fisher is a professor of piano at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio where he co-chairs the Keyboard Division and directs the nationally recognized undergraduate and graduate piano performance and pedagogy programs. He is the Artistic Director of the Ohio University Piano Pedagogy Seminar and is a Faculty Fellow for the 1804 Scholars Program. Fisher served as Director of the Ohio University School of Music from 2020-2022 and Assistant Director from 2019-2020.

Jeff Russell is not your everyday athletic trainer. Rather than working with athletes who compete in sports, Dr. Russell works with another type of athlete — performing artists. In late 2001, a dancer came to him asking for help with an injury. After he cared for her, word spread that he would help address injuries related to all performers at the university where he was working at the time.

Dr. Fredricks is a physician, medical educator and veteran who draws on his 25 years of military experience and his practice of family and emergency medicine to inform his efforts to improve health care for veterans.

Lucas Borges is an assistant professor of trombone at Ohio University and holds a doctoral degree from the University of North Texas (UNT), Master’s degree from Indiana University and Bachelor’s degree from  Universidade de Brasilia  (Brazil).

Haven is an expert in all things Charlie Chaplin, who burst on the scene during World War I and became an American icon by the Great Depression in the late 1920s.

Chaplin gained worldwide popularity and recognition beginning in the 1910s for his "Little Tramp" character, a man dressed in a mishmash of ill-fitted suiting, bushy mustache, Derby hat and bamboo cane. That character has become one of the most iconic film images of all time. The Little Tramp's antics, slapstick comedy and pathos created a timeless persona that critics and audiences are still applauding and analyzing.

There are two areas of Ohio University Professor of Art John Sabraw’s life that he is exceptionally passionate about - art and sustainability. And he has found ways to marry the two.

An expert painter, designer, illustrator and author, Sabraw seeks projects that not only allow him to expand his creativity, but those that also help the environment.

Tony M. Vinci lives at the crossroads of popular culture and literary history. He teaches classes on HBO’s Game of Thrones and Holocaust literature, fantasy in young adult literature and literary modernisms, androids in film and African American literature. His scholarship is as diverse as his classes, including publications on ghosts, animals, and African American identities in the literature of William Faulkner; trauma in the science fiction of Philip K. Dick; and the ethical confrontation explored by contemporary filmmakers such as Joss Whedon and Guillermo del Toro.