Edmond Y. Chang, Ph.D.

Dr. Edmond Y. Chang is an associate professor of English at Ohio University. 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 “Looking for Asianfuturism: Asian American Science Fiction and Digital Games” in Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions, “Why are the Digital Humanities So Straight?” in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, “Drawing the Oankali: Imagining Race, Gender, and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler’s Dawn” in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler, and “Queergaming” in Queer Game Studies.

In addition, Chang has two book-length projects:

• Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide, co-authored with Timothy J. Welsh, Routledge, 2025.
• Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons, edited by Suzanne Richardson, Play Story Press,  2025.

• Special Issue on Queer Analog Game Studies, editor, Analog Game Studies 12.2, July 2025.
• Special Issue on Game Studies, co-editor with Ashlee Bird, Configurations 36.2, the official publication of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring 2024.