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Edmond Y. Chang

Dr. Edmond Y. Chang, portrait
Associate Professor
Ellis 331, Athens Campus
English
change@ohio.edu

Winner of University Professor Award 2024

Areas of Expertise

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Washington

M.A., English, University of Maryland

B.A., English, University of Maryland

B.A., Classics, University of Maryland

Scholarly Focus

  • 20/21C American Literature
  • Speculative Literature & Ethnic Futurisms
  • Feminist & Queer Theory
  • Digital Culture/Video Game Studies
  • Posthuman Narratives
  • Popular Culture

Recent Publications

  • 鈥淕aming While Asian.鈥 Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us. Eds. Tara Fickle and Christopher Patterson. Duke University Press, April 2024.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction to the Game Studies Issue: A Metagame.鈥 Co-authored and edited with Ashlee Bird. Game Studies themed issue of Configurations 36.2, Spring 2024.
  • 鈥淔ish, Roses, and Sexy Sutures: Disability, Embodied Estrangement, and Radical Care in Larissa Lai鈥檚 The Tiger Flu.鈥 Co-authored with Stevi Costa. Project(ing) Human: Representations of Disability in Science Fiction. Ed. Courtney Stanton. Vernon Press. April 2023.
  • 鈥淧laying Difference: Toward a Games of Color Pedagogy.鈥 Co-authored with Ashlee Bird and Kishonna L. Gray. Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media: Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education Teaching. Eds. Susan Flynn and Melanie Marotta. Routledge, December 2021.
  • 鈥淲hy Are the Digital Humanities So Straight?鈥 Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities. Ed. Dorothy Kim and Adeline Koh. Punctum Books, June 2021. 
  • 鈥淧laying as Making.鈥 Disrupting Digital Humanities. Eds. Dorothy Kim and Jesse Stommel. Punctum Books, November 2018.
  • 鈥淎 Game Chooses, A Player Obeys: BioShock, Posthumanism, and the Limits of Queerness.鈥 Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games. Eds. Jennifer Malkowski and TreaAndrea M. Russworm. Indiana University Press, July 2017.
  • 鈥净耻别别谤驳补尘颈苍驳.鈥 Queer Game Studies. Eds. Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw. University of Minnesota Press. March 2017.
  • "'Love is in the Air': Queer (Im)Possibility and Straightwashing in FrontierVille and World of Warcraft." QED special issue on "Queer Gaming." Eds. Charles E. Morris and Thomas K. Nakayama. June 2015.
  • 鈥淭别补肠丑颈苍驳 Harry Potter: Pedagogy as Play, Performance, and Textual Poaching.鈥 Playing Harry Potter: Essays and Interviews on Fandom and Performance, Ed. Lisa Brenner. McFarland, 2015.

Courses Taught

  • ENG 2310: Speculative Literature: 鈥淐ontemporary Fantasy of Color"
  • ENG 3380: Ethnic American Literature: 鈥淎sian American Literature and Imagining Asianfuturisms"
  • ENG 7340: Twentieth Century American Literature: 鈥淨ueer(ing) Realism(s): 20/21C American Literatures"
  • ENG 2320: Literature and Social Justice: 鈥淏ooks Balls, and Barbie: Camp as Everyday Theory鈥
  • ENG 2010: Prose Fiction and Nonfiction: "Read. Write. Bodies."
  • ENG 2100: Critical Approaches to Popular Literature: 鈥淲hy are Americans Afraid of Dragons?: Critical Approaches to Reading, Writing, and Playing Fantasy鈥
  • ENG 3060: Women & Writing: "Critical Approaches to Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
  • ENG 3850: Writing about Culture and Society: "Ready Player Two: Critical Approaches to Virtual Worlds and Video Games"
  • ENG 3060: Women & Writing: "Feminist Science Fiction"
  • ENG 3230: American Literature 1918-Present: "Queering American Literature"
  • ENG 7800: Special Studies Seminar: "Keywords for Video Game Studies"