
Edmond Y. Chang, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of English
- Affiliate Faculty of Women鈥檚, 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 51社区. 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 鈥溾€楧o They See Me as a Virus?鈥�: Imagining Asian American (Environmental) Games鈥� in American Studies, 鈥淲hy are the Digital Humanities So Straight?鈥� in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, 鈥淒rawing the Oankali: Imagining Race, Gender, and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler鈥檚 Dawn鈥� in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler, and 鈥淨ueergaming鈥� in Queer Game Studies.
He is the creator of , a high fantasy tabletop RPG, and , a live-action role-playing game. He is also an Assistant Editor for and a Contributing Editor for .
Chang was also awarded the 2023 Chairs and Directors Emerging Leadership Award.
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