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...

STUDIO VISIT: “Game Over: Games as Research, Art as Exploration,” January 22, 2025, 4-5 PM PST, Online

Happening today, Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 4-5 PM PST online: https://bcnm.berkeley.edu/events/109/special-events/6220/game-over-games-as-research-art-as-exploration Join multi-media artist and game designer Elliot Bear Yu and scholar Edmond Y....

Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions, Release Date July 15, 2025

Cover revealed for Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions, coming out from Rutgers University Press and edited by David Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta Aiyu...

PUBLICATION: “‘That’s Because They’re Dream Houses, Mother******!’: Barbie, Utopian Camp, and a Conversation Between Two Allans,” Liminalities (2024) 

An essay that I co-authored with a graduate student Tyler Everett Adams (Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University) has just been published in the performance studies...

Keynote for “Masterclass Game Development,” Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Germany, November 8, 2024, Online

Thanks to Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB) or the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Germany and the “Masterclass Game Development” conference for inviting...

UPCOMING: “Queering Games, Gaming Imaginaries,” Open Scholarship Commons, October 24, 2024, 11 AM-12 PM, UW

I have been invited to give a short talk and workshop at the University of Washington for Open Access Week at the Open Scholarship...

FORTHCOMING: Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions, Rutgers University Press, July 2025

Nearly a decade ago, the edited collection Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media came out from Rutgers University Press in 2015....

Presenting at “ALT+F4: Rebooting Community after Game.rGate,” Lawrence Technological University, September 26-29, 2024

I am headed to Detroit, MI this weekend to a conference at Lawrence Technological University. The conference is called “ALT+F4: Rebooting Community after Game.rGate.”...

Futurity as Practice: Postcards from the Octavia E. Butler Conference at The Huntington

I wrote a blog post over at the Octavia E. Butler Literary Society page about my experiences going to the Butler conference at The...
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