Edmond Y. Chang, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of English
- Affiliate Faculty of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)
- Affiliate Faculty of the Rhetoric and Composition Program in English
Areas of Expertise
- Video Games
- Video Game Studies
- Queer Games
- Race in Games
- Gender in Games
- Sexuality in Games
- Game Studies
- Media Studies
- Popular Culture
- Gender and Sexuality
- Queer Theory
- LGBTQ Studies
- Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Speculative Literature
- Literature
- 20th & 21st Century American Literature
- Race in Literature
- Gender in Literature
- Sexuality in Literature
- Digital Humanities
- Pedagogy
- Digital Rhetoric
Expert Bio
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.
Expertise at a Glance
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