Contact & About the Instructor

     Instructor: Dr. Edmond Y. Chang
     Office: 331 Ellis Hall
     E-mail: change @ ohio.edu
     URL: http://www.edmondchang.com/

     AUTUMN 2025 OFFICE HOURS:
     TuTh 1:30-3:00 PM or by appointment

     COURSES:
     ENG 3380: Ethnic American Literature: "Journey to the West: Asian/American Fantasy" | Autumn 2025
     ENG 6350/7350: Topics in African American Literature: "Black Futures, Brown Worlds, Speculative Literatures" | Autumn 2025

Edmond Y. Chang is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University in Athens, OH. He is affiliate faculty to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Rhetoric and Composition program.

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 20/21C American literature. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and his dissertation is entitled Technoqueer: Re/con/figuring Posthuman Narratives. He has extensive teaching experience at the university level. His previous institutions include the University of Oregon, Drew University, and the University of Washington. He has taught classes on contemporary and ethnic American literature, speculative fiction of color, queer theory, young adult literature, popular culture, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, technology and identity, video game studies, and even live-action role-playing games.

Recent publications include "Imagining Asianfuturism: Asian American Science Fiction and Digital Games" in Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions, "That's Because They’re Dream Houses, Mother******!”: Barbie, Utopian Camp, and a Conversation Between Two Allans," co-authored with Tyler Adams, in Liminalities (Vol. 20, No. 4), "Gaming while Asian” in Made in Asia/America: Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us, "'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, 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 Editor for Analog Game Studies and a Contributing Editor for Gamers with Glasses.

Other Courses Taught

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