A little tweet love from QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, twittering about my essay “Love is in the Air” in their queer gaming issue:
On Saturday, May 16, 2015, I participated in Drew University’s graduation and commencement ceremony. I got to get into my bright purple University of Washington robes; I call myself “The Grape of Wrath.” Luckily the…
One of my graduating seniors at Drew just offered a wonderful tribute in the form of a short tweet:
The Drew Acorn student newspaper this week features two stories that highlight some things I had something to do with. First is coverage of the “Speculative Environments” roundtable held almost two weeks ago: Second is…
Thursday, April 30, 2015 4:30-5:30 PM BC 101 Edmond Y. Chang Assistant Professor of English Drew University Given the recent media attention and continuing backlash against women gamers, journalists, and game studies scholars, this talk…
Today I will be participating in a gaming and discussion event held by Ohio State University’s Rhetoric Politics Gaming (@RPGseries) Series entitled “Gaming the Future: New Perspectives on Digital Entertainment.” I will be Skyping into the…
Friday, April 17, 2015 4:00-5:30 PM Brothers College 201 Drew University In a recent essay, Ursula K. Le Guin ponders, “What all political and social thinking has finally been forced to face is, of course,…
Headed off to the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference in New Orleans, April 1-4, 2015. Originally, I was presenting as part of two panels, but the second (which was on _Deconstructing Brad Pitt)…
My trusty laptop, named HQ 76 (after the Library of Congress call number for queer theory), died today. It has suffered a few mishaps in the last year or so (the soda explosion in particular). …
Periodically, especially for courses where the material is challenging, academically dense, or the class seems to be floundering, I will use the old index card trick. Basically, everyone in the class gets a blank index…