GENERATION ANALOG 2025 “PUNK,” July 17, 2025

It’s once again time for Generation Analog, an annual online tabletop games and education conference organized by Analog Game Studies and Game in Lab:...

Headed to ASLE 2025, July 8-11, 2025, University of Maryland, College Park

I am headed back to my home state and my alma mater. I am attending ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the...

Special Issue: Queer Analog Game Studies

A little belated, but I finally finished editing and published a special issue on “Queer Analog Game Studies” for Analog Game Studies (Volume XII,...

SCRiB LAB 2025 Playwriting Conference, June 21, 2025, Center Theatre at Seattle Center

I have the great fortune to be headed to the SCRiB LAB 2025 Playwriting Conference on Saturday, June 21, 2025 at the Center Theater...

KEYNOTE: Mediated Futures: Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, April 25-26, 2026, UC Irvine

I am headed to UC Irvine to give a talk for the Mediated Futures: Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, April 25-26, 2025. I am going to...

2025-26 Emerging Presidential Research Scholar Award

Surprise! And while on sabbatical! I have been named one of two Emerging Presidential Research Scholars at Ohio University for 2025-26! Here’s what the...

FORTHCOMING: Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide (Routledge 2025) by Edmond Y. Chang and Timothy J. Welsh

It seems that the book that my friend and colleague Timothy Welsh and I wrote late last summer has a publication date! This entry...

Role-Playing the Humanities, University of Cincinnati, March 31-April 1, 2025

I am excited to attend “Role-Playing the Humanities,” a two-day symposium at the Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. The event brings...

UPCOMING: “Barbie, Munoz, and Utopian Camp: A Conversation,” February 14, 2025, 12-1 PM, Bentley 110, OHIO

I can’t believe it’s already February of the new year. And nearly mid-February at that. I will be headed back to Ohio next week...

Happy Year of the Wood Snake! Happy Chinese New Year! Happy Spring Festival 2025!

春節快樂! Happy Chinese New Year! Happy Lunisolar New Year! Happy Year of the Snake (which is basically a little dragon)! Here are some predictions...
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