CV

Edmond Y. Chang

Department of English
Ellis Hall
1 Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
change(at)ohio(dot)edu
https://research.ohio.edu/chang-edmond/

Education:

• PhD: English Literature, University of Washington (UW), 2012.
  Dissertation: “Technoqueer: Re/con/figuring Posthuman Narratives”
  Committee: Thomas Foster (chair), Kate Cummings, and Eva Cherniavsky
  Areas: technoculture, video games & feminist media studies, race, gender, and sexuality studies, 20/21C American fiction.
• MA: English Literature, University of Maryland (UMD), 2005.
  Thesis: “The Birth of the Cyberqueer Manifesto”
  Committee: Marilee Lindemann (chair), Martha Nell Smith, and Kandice Chuh
  Areas: queer studies, film, cultural studies, digital culture, creative nonfiction.
• Graduate Course Work, English Literature, UMD, 9/93-12/98.
  Concentration: film studies, queer studies.
• BA: English Literature, UMD, 1993.  BA: Classics, UMD, 1993.  Minor: architecture.

Academic Employment:

• Associate Professor, Department of English, Ohio University (OHIO), 8/2023-present. 
• Assistant Professor, Department of English, OHIO, 2017-2023.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Oregon (UO), 2015-2017.
• Assistant Professor, Department of English, Drew University, 2013-2015.
• Acting Instructor, Department of English, UW, Winter & Spring 2013.
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Comparative History of Ideas, UW, 2012-2013.
• Teaching Assistant, Department of English, UW, 2005-2012.
• Teaching Assistant & Academic Tutor, Learn + Experience + Achieve Program (LEAP), Student-Athlete Academic Services, UW, Summer 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, & 2011.
• Teaching Assistant, Writing Ready Program, Early Fall Start, UW, Summer 2006 & 2007.
• Graduate Assistant Academic Advisor & Teaching Assistant, Division of Letters and Sciences, UMD, 2004-2005.
• Teaching Assistant & Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, UMD, 1994-1998, 2002-2005.
• Graduate Assistant, Center Alliance for Secondary School Teachers and Texts (CAST), Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, UMD, 1993-1994.

Awards & Distinctions:

• University Professor Award, Nominated and Awarded by Students for Outstanding Teaching, Office of the Provost, OHIO, 2024-25.
• Outstanding WGSS Affiliate Faculty, Certificate of Appreciation, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, OHIO, 2023 & 2024.
• Retention & Professional Development Fund Grant, Opportunity Hire Committee, Division of Diversity and Inclusion, OHIO, 2023-2024.
• Landing Zone, Certificate of Training, Veterans and Military Student Services Center, OHIO, 2023.
• Chairs & Directors Emerging Faculty Leadership Award, Office of the Provost, OHIO, 2023.
• Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Endowment Grant to develop a Digital Culture and Video Game Studies collection, University Library Committee, OHIO University Libraries, 2023.
• 1804 Scholars Faculty Fellow, Ohio Honors Program, 2022-present.
• Inclusive Teaching Endorsement, Ohio College Teaching Consortium, 2021.
• OHIO Faculty Newsmakers, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022.
• LGBTQIA+ Distinguished Faculty Award, UO Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Educational Support Services, 2016.
• Underrepresented Minority Recruitment Program Grant, University of Oregon, 2015.
• Mellon Arts and the Common Good Faculty Mini-Grant, Drew University, 2015.
• Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Scholar Fellowship, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 & 2012-13.
• Andrew R. Hilen Endowment Award for full tuition and travel to the Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, June 18-23, 2012.
• Webber Teaching Award for 200-Level Teaching, Department of English, UW, 2012
• K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), 2011.
• UW Excellence in Teaching Award, UW Teaching Academy, 2009.
• Professional Equity Project (PEP) Grant from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), 2009.
• UW Excellence in Teaching Award Nomination, UW Teaching Academy, 2008.
• Webber Outstanding Teaching Prize for 100-Level Teaching Assistant, Expository Writing Program, UW, 2007.
• University Teaching and Learning Program Certificate, Center for Teaching Excellence, UMD, 2005.
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Center for Teaching Excellence, UMD, 2004.
• UM Parents Association Outstanding Faculty Award Nomination, UMD, 2003.

Other Awards

• MLA Travel Award, 128^th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA, 2013.
• SLSA Travel Award, 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Milwaukee, WI, 2012.
• Toews Travel Grant, Comparative History of Ideas (CHID), UW, to attend the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts in Milwaukee, WI, 2012.
• Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Scholar Travel Grant, HASTAC V annual conference, supported by the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2011.
• SLSA Travel Award, 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, 2011.

Publications:

Books

• Video Games and Literature: A Practical Guide.  Co-authored with Timothy J. Welsh.  Routledge, in press, forthcoming 2025.
• Generation Analog 2021: Proceedings of the Tabletop Games and Education Conference.  Edited by Evan Torner, Shelly Jones, Edmond Chang, Megan Condis, and Aaron Trammell.  Carnegie Mellon’s ETC Press, 2023. 

Peer-Reviewed or Refereed

•  “Imagining Asianfuturism: Asian American Science Fiction and Digital Games.”  Techno-Orientalism Volume 2.  Eds. David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta Niu, and Christopher T. Fan.  Rutgers University Press.  In press, forthcoming 2025. 
• “Gaming While Asian.”  Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us.  Eds. Tara Fickle and Christopher Patterson.  Duke University Press, April 2024.
• “Playing at SLSA: A Game Studies Stream Retrospective.”  Editor and co-authored with Patrick Jagoda, Julianne Grasso, Peter D. McDonald, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux, Alenda Y. Chang, Doug Stark, Timothy J. Welsh, Jamal Russell, and Ashlee Bird. Configurations 31.4, Fall 2023. 
• “Playing Difference: Toward a Games of Color Pedagogy.”  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. 
• “Why Are the Digital Humanities So Straight?”  Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities.  Ed. Dorothy Kim and Adeline Koh.  Punctum Books, June 2021.
• “Queer.”  Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments.  Eds. Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers. Modern Language Association, March 2021. https://digitalpedagogy.hcommons.org/keyword/Queer.
• “Drawing the Oankali: Imagining Race, Gender, and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler’s Dawn.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler. Ed. Tarshia L. Stanley. Modern Language Association (MLA), August, 2019.
• “Playing as Making.” Disrupting Digital Humanities. Eds. Dorothy Kim and Jesse Stommel. Punctum Books, November 2018.
• “A Game Chooses, A Player Obeys: BioShock, Posthumanism, and the Limits of Queerness.” Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games. Eds. Jennifer Malkowski and TreaAndrea M. Russworm.  Indiana University Press, July 2017.
• “Queergaming.” 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.

Invited Articles or Book Chapters

• “Introduction to the Game Studies Issue: A Metagame.” Co-authored and edited with Ashlee Bird.  Game Studies themed issue of Configurations 36.2, Spring 2024.
• “Fish, Roses, and Sexy Sutures: Disability, Embodied Estrangement, and Radical Care in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu.”  Co-authored with Stevi Costa.  Project(ing) Human: Representations of Disability in Science Fiction.  Ed. Courtney Stanton.  Vernon Press.  April 2023.  
• “‘Do They See Me as a Virus?’: Imagining Asian American (Environmental) Games.”  American Studies.  Special issue on “Our Shared Planet: The Environmental Issue.”  Eds. Hee-Jung Joo and Pacharee Sudhinaraset, December 2021.
• “Imagining Asianfuturism(s).” Syllabus for special issue on “Our Shared Planet: The Environmental Issue.”  Eds. Hee-Jung Joo and Pacharee Sudhinaraset.  American Studies (AMSJ) (60.3&4), December 2021/January 2022. 
• “Teaching Harry Potter: Pedagogy as Play, Performance, and Textual Poaching.”  Playing Harry Potter: Essays and Interviews on Fandom and Performance, Ed. Lisa Brenner.  McFarland, 2015.
• “Gay for Brad.”  Deconstructing Brad Pitt.  Eds. Christopher Schaberg and Robert Bennett.  Bloomsbury, 2014.
• “Gaming as Writing, Or, World of Warcraft as World of Wordcraft.”  Computers and Composition Online special issue on “Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming.”  Eds. Richard Colby and Rebekah Shultz Colby.  August/September 2008.  http://cconlinejournal.org/gaming_issue_2008/Chang_Gaming_as_writing/index.html.

Book Reviews

• “Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology (Book Review).”  Gamers with Glasses.  June 5, 2023.  https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/repairing-play-a-black-phenomenology-book-review.
• “Review: The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by Bonnie Ruberg.”  The American Journal of Play (13.1), June 2021. 

In Progress

• “White Fantasies, Gamer Orthodoxies.”  Gaming and Racism.  Eds. Aurelia Brandenburg, Linda Schlegel, and Felix Zimmerman.  Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB), Germany.  In press, forthcoming 2025.
• “Tomorrow Is Here: Teaching Asianfuturism and Other Ethnic Futurisms.” Teaching Science Fiction in the Literature Classroom.  Ed. Gerry Canavan.  MLA Books.  In press.
• “The A, B, Cs of Asianfuturist Games, a Manifesto.”  Anti-Racist Futures: Games, Play, and the Speculative Imagination. Eds. Soraya Murray and TreaAndrea Russworm.  Duke University Press.  Under contract, in progress.
• “That’s Because They’re Dream Houses, Mother******!”: Barbie, Utopian Camp, and a Conversation Between Two Allans.”  Co-authored with Tyler Adams.  Liminalities.  Under review.
• “Circling Asianfuturisms: Edmond Chang and Larissa Lai in Conversation.”  Co-authored with Larissa Lai. In progress.
• “LARP as Queer Space, Queer Contact, Queer Pedagogy.” In progress.
• “Alan Turing, ‘Pryce’s Buoy,’ and the Technoqueer.”  In progress.
• “‘Making Us All Queer’: Queering Transhumanism in Cory Doctorow, Geoff Ryman, and David Gerrold.”  In progress.

Other Writing & Web-Based Scholarship

• “The GwG Halloween Monster Mash, Part 2: Tears of the Kingdom: Monsters are Imperfect Mirrors.” Gamers with Glasses.  October 30, 2023. https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/the-gwg-halloween-monster-mash-part-2-tears-of-the-kingdom
• “9 Games of Color in 2022.”  Gamers with Glasses.  January 14, 2023.  https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/9-games-of-color-in-2022
• “Squid Game, or, The Squeamish Pleasure of Asian Death.”  Gamers with Glasses.  September 6, 2021.  https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/squid-game-pleasure
• “7 Games to Play for the Start of School.”  Gamers with Glasses.  September 6, 2021.  https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/gwg-recommends/7-backtoschool
• “10 Games to Play for Earth Day.”  Co-authored with Alenda Chang.  Gamers with Glasses.  “Green Screen” series.  Eds. Nate Schmidt and Christian Haines.  April 21, 2021.  https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/10-games-to-play-for-earth-day
• “Cruising Animal Crossing.”  Gamers with Glasses.  “Love Connections” series.  Eds. Jason Mical and Roger Whitson.  February 12, 2021.  https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/cruising-animal-crossing  
• “Playing Games, Practicing Utopia.”  Gamers with Glasses.  “Playing in the Pandemic” series.  Eds. Christian Haines and Roger Whitson.  September 26, 2020.  https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/playing-games-practicing-utopia-a-life-in-tabletop-games.
• “Queer Dystopias, Queer Mechanics, and Queers in Love at the End of the World.” May 29, 2020 for In Media Res “Queerness in Games” week.  In Media Res is a collaborative Media Commons project for online scholarship.  Ed. Ashley P. Jones.  http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/queer-dystopias-queer-mechanics-and-queers-love-end-world-0.
• “Pokemon Go, Queer Spaces, and Queer Contact.” October 15, 2016 for In Media Res “Pokemon Go” week. In Media Res is a collaborative Media Commons project for online scholarship. Ed. Colin Wheeler. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2016/10/15/pokemon-go-queer-spaces-and-queer-contact.
• “Cards Against Humanity is __________.” First Person Scholar. March 17, 2015. Part of the special feature “Videogames, Queerness, & Beyond Dispatches from the 2014 Queerness & Games Conference.” Ed. Bonnie Ruberg. http://www.firstpersonscholar.com/cards-against-humanity-is/.
• “Better, Stronger, Faster? Bionic Woman and Posthuman Queerness.” January 23, 2015 for In Media Res “Post-human, Super-intelligent, Dream Girls” week. In Media Res is a collaborative Media Commons project for online scholarship. Ed. Jason Derby. http://mediacommons.org/imr/2015/01/07/better-stronger-faster-bionic-woman-and-posthuman-queerness.
• “Gaming Writing: Teaching (with) Video Games” Prezi presentation featured in Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects.  Eds. Kristin L. Arola, Jennifer Sheppard, and Cheryl E. Ball. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2014.
• “The Last Human: Doctor Who and Anxieties Over the Posthuman.”  December 17, 2013 for In Media Res “Doctor Who” week.  In Media Res is a collaborative Media Commons project for online scholarship.   Ed. Lauren Cramer.  http://mediacommons.org/imr/2013/12/12/last-human-doctor-who-and-posthuman.
• “Alan Turing: The First Digital Humanist?” HASTAC Scholars Forum.  Co-wrote and developed the forum prompt, organizing questions, and invited prominent academics and practitioners to participate in the public forum.  Featured February 19-March 12, 2013.  http://hastac.org/forums/alan-turing-first-digital-humanist.
• Review of Chapter 12: “Roots and Revelation: Genetic Ancestry Testing and the YouTube Generation” by Alondra Nelson & Jeong Won Hwang.  HASTAC Distributed Book Review of Race After the Internet  (Edited by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White).  March 15, 2012.  http://hastac.org/blogs/fionab/2012/03/15/crowdsourced-book-review-race-after-internet.
• “Press Start to Continue: Toward a New Video Game Studies,” HASTAC Scholars Forum.  Co-developed and wrote the forum prompt, organizing questions, and invited prominent academics and practitioners to participate in the public forum.  Featured February 6-March 5, 2012.  http://hastac.org/forums/press-start-continue-toward-new-video-game-studies.
• “‘Would You Kindly?’: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice.” Co-authored with Timothy Welsh.  March 10, 2011 for In Media Res “Posthumanism and Media” week.  In Media Res is a collaborative Media Commons project for online scholarship.   Ed. Drew Ayers.  http://mediacommons.org/imr/2011/02/26/would-you-kindly.
• “Playing (with) Power: Video Games and the Fantasies of Control.”  Podcast for the Simpson Center for the Humanities, in conjunction On the Boards theatre’s presentation of Rimini Protokoll’s performance of Best Before.  May 2010.  http://www.ontheboards.org/performances/best.

Creative Writing

• “Dear Ursula.”  Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin.  Eds. R.B. Lemberg and Lisa M. Bradley.  Aqueduct Press, January 2021.  Poetry.

Game Design

• The Secret Lives of Junk(kin), or Why Marie Kondo Does(n’t) Spork Joy, a short freeform LARP, Golden Cobra Challenge 2023 Honorable Mention, November 2023, http://www.goldencobra.org/2023winners.html.
• After the Comet, a freeform LARP inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story “The Comet,” designed for ENG 1100: “Literature as LARP as Literature,” Ohio University, Spring 2023, http://www.edmondchang.com/2023/01/20/after-the-comet-freeform-larp-for-eng-1100-literature-as-larp-as-literature-spring-2023/.
• “Why are the Digital Humanities So Straight?” Electronic Literature Collection Volume 4.  Edited by K. I. Berens, J. T. Murray, L. Skains, R. Torres, & M. Zamora, Electronic Literature Organization, June 2022, https://collection.eliterature.org/4/why-are-the-digital-humanities-so-straight.
• Archaea Live-Action Role-Playing and Wargaming, a live-action role-playing and padded-weapon wargaming system, CreateSpace, 2018, http://www.archaea.org.
• Tellings: Role-Playing and Storytelling, a high fantasy, point-based, skill-based tabletop RPG, CreateSpace, 2017, http://www.tellings.com.
• Wingtopia, an augmented-reality gallery game for the “Asian American Arcade” exhibit at the Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA, 2012, http://www.edmondchang.com/2012/02/14/visiting-the-asian-american-arcade-exhibit-at-wing-luke/.
• Archaea: Bane, a semi-autopoetic fantasy cooperative card game.  In progress.   

Editorial:

• 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.
• Analog Game Studies, a journal for the research and critique of analog games, Carnegie Mellon University’s ETC Press, Editor-in-Chief, 2024-present, Assistant Editor, 2021-2024, https://analoggamestudies.org/.
• Gamers with Glasses, a site for scholars, developers, artists, and fans of video games and tabletop games, Contributing Editor, 2020-present, http://www.gamerswithglasses.com.

Websites & Blogs

• ed(mond)chang(ed)agogy, academic/pedagogical blog & online portfolio, responsible for content, WordPress installation, and maintenance, 2005-present, http://www.edmondchang.com.

Conferences & Presentations:

Invited Talks & Presentations

• “Humanities at Play: LIM with Edmond Chang,” invited speaker, Nevada Humanities, July 30, 2024, online, https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2211754957.
• “Code/Queer Games/Technonormativity,” keynote, Unlink(ed): Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) conference, July 19, 2024, online, https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/algorithmsandimaginaries/schedule/32/.
• “Imagining Extinction in Video Games,” invited respondent, Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS), April 26, 2024, online.
• “Choose Your Own Adventure: Representation, Reflection, Resistance, and Gaming While Asian,” invited talk, Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies, University of Baltimore, April 19, 2024.
• “Choose Your Own Adventure: Race, Queerness, and Gaming While Asian,” invited talk, Weston Game Lab, University of Chicago, March 28, 2024.
• “Queer Representations of AI,” invited speaker, part of the “On Hallucinations, Spark(l)ing Intelligence and the Apocalypse: Representation(s) of AI” speaker series, Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London, March 13, 2024, online.
• “Toward a Games of Color Pedagogy,” invited keynote, Leveling Up the Classroom Conference, UKFCU Esports Lounge, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, January 27 & 28, 2024.
• “Joy and Harm,” plenary aroundtable, invited speaker, with Jordan Clapper, Kishonna Gray, Wendi Sierra, and Aaron Trammell, Race in Games and Game Studies Conference, University of Waterloo, December 7 & 8, 2023, online.
• “Circling Asianfuturisms: Edmond Chang and Larissa Lai in Conversation,” invited speaker, closing seminar presented online as part of the María Zambrano Fellowship Online Public Lecture Series entitled “Insurgencies: Speculative Fiction, Cultural Organizing, and Utopian Thought,” University of Huelva, Spain, June 19, 2023, online.
• “Alan, Ada, Purna: Why are the Digital Humanities So Straight?,” Institute Lecture as part of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI, https://dhsi.org/), University of Victoria, BC, June 14, 2023, online. 
• “Masculinities and Play Cultures,” invited roundtable with Nicholas Taylor and Anna Chiara Corradino, Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Queer (CIRQUE) online series on “Queer(ing) Masculinities: Spaces, Places, and Cultures,” Pisa, Italy, December 1, 2022, online.
• “Gaming While Asian, An Adventure,” invited talk the Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Program (AAPI) and the Department of English, Brandeis University, Boston, MA, October 24, 2022.
• “Asianfuturist Game Studies and Three Asian (American) Environmental Games,” invited talk, Center for Digital Ethics & Policy (CDEP) Annual International Symposium on “Digital Ethics for a Sustainable Society,” Loyola University, Chicago, March 31, 2022, online.
• “Gaming While Asian: Race, Gender Queerness, Play,” invited talk for Department of English lecture series, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, November 3, 2021. 
• “Alternative Worlds, Alternative Games,” invited talk for the Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities, Undergraduate Research Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 26, 2019.
• “Diversity and the Media,” panelist, invited by the Scripps PRSSA (Public Relations Student Society of America), Ohio University, Athens, OH, April 8, 2019.
• “Digital Games and the Trouble with Technonormativity,” invited talk and workshop for the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation (CDSC) Spring Symposium, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, March 8, 2018.
• “Race, Gender, Queerness, Code: Digital Games and the Trouble with Technonormativity,” invited talk, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium, Ohio University, January 24, 2018.
• “Ready Player Three: Queergaming and Queer Possibilities,” invited keynote for “Queer History Month,”  Pride Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, October 25, 2017.
• “Race, Gender, Queerness, Code,” invited talk, History and Culture Colloquium, Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University, Madison, NJ, April 28, 2017.
• “What’s New in Video Game Studies?” invited talk, UO Think.Play, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, October 5, 2016.
• “How I Study and Play Digital Games, A Conversation with Dr. Edmond Y. Chang,” invited talk, UO Think.Play, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, May 21, 2016.
• “Brown Skins, White Avatars: Racebending and Straightwashing in Digital Games,” invited talk, part of the UCSB Multicultural Center’s Race Matters Series, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, January 26, 2016.
• “Queer Games, Straight Design: Queer Possibility and Straightwashing in FrontierVille and World of Warcraft,” talk sponsored by the Mellon Arts and the Common Good Grant and the Department of English, Drew University, Madison, NJ, April 30, 2015.
• “Gaming the Future: New Perspectives on Digital Entertainment,” invited discussant (via Skype), Rhetoric, Politics, and Gaming (RPG) Series, Ohio State University, April 15, 2015. <https://rpgseries.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/our-final-event-of-the-year-gaming-the-future-new-perspectives-on-digital-entertainment/>.
• “Queer (Im)Possibility and Straightwashing in Digital Games,” invited talk, part of the Five College Digital Humanities Speaker Series, Smith College, Northampton, MA, November 21, 2014.
• “Queergaming: Digital Humanities, Digital Games, and Playing with Difference,” talk and roundtable, “Queering the Digital Humanities,” sponsored by Queer Philly Media, University of Pennsylvania, April 22, 2014.
• “Queer Games, Straight Design,” talk and workshop, part of the “Building Public Humanities” series, sponsored by the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab and the Maker Lab in the Humanities at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, March 10, 2014.
• “The Seductions of Gamification,” invited workshop and keynote address, Boise State THATCamp, Boise State University, October 27, 2012.
• “Faculty of the Future: Voices from the Next Generation” honoree and roundtable participant, 97^th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Univerisities (AACU), San Francisco, January 2011.

Invited Workshops

• “Queering Games, Gaming Imaginaries,” invited workshop for Open Access Week “Community over Commercialization,” Open Scholarship Commons, University of Washington, Seattle, October 24, 2024. 
• Co-instructor with Dr. Jason Boyd, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI, https://dhsi.org/), University of Victoria, BC, including: 
  • “Queer(ing) Digital Humanities,” a week-long course, June 2-7, 2024, in person.
  • “Queer Digital Humanities,” a week-long course, June 5-9, 2023, in person.
  • “Queer Digital Humanities,” a week-long course, June 6-10, 2022, online.
  • “Queer Digital Humanities,” a week-long course, June 14-18, 2021, online.
• “Games, AI, Digital Pedagogy,” workshop with Dr. Paul Shovlin and Dr. Anastasia Salter, Ohio University, Athens, OH, April 15, 2024.
• “Who Gets to Be the Hero?,” workshop on live-action role-playing for Camp Kiki, a week-long gaming and e-sports camp for 7th-9th graders sponsored by Niantic, Inc., the University of Kentucky, and Dr. Kishonna L. Gray, Lexington, KY, June 30, 2022.
• “Addressing Impostor Syndrome,” workshop for the 2022 National Conference for the Popular Culture Association, co-presented with Lily Kunda and Alicia Jay, April 15, 2022, online.
• “Close Reading, Close Playing: Video Games, Pedagogy, and the Humanities Classroom,” led a three-day workshop for the Ping Summer Institute for Teachers, Ohio University, Athens, OH, June 5-7, 2019.
• “#WeNeedDiverseGames: Close Playing Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Games,” invited workshop for THATCamp Ohio 2018, Ohio University, Athens, OH, September 21, 2018.
• “#WeNeedDiverseGames: Close Playing Race, Gender, and Sexuality,” invited workshop for “Queer History Month,” Pride Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, October 25, 2017.
• “#WeNeedDiverseGames: Close Playing Race, Gender, and Sexuality,” invited workshop, Oregon Students of Color Conference (OSCC), Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, November 12, 2016.
• “#WeNeedDiverseGames: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Digital Games,” invited workshop, Oregon Student Equal Rights Alliance Symposium (OSERA), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 27, 2016.
• “Towards a (New) Video Game Pedagogy: Critical Players and Gameful Assignments,” invited workshop, Digital Pedagogy Workshops and Digital Currents series, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January 16, 2015.
• “Towards a (New) Video Game Pedagogy: Critical Players Not Digital Natives,” invited workshop, THATCamp Digital Pedagogy, Carnegie Center of Richard Stockton College, Atlantic City, NJ, June 2014.
• “Teaching (with) Video Games: Digital Natives vs. Critical Players,” invited workshop for the DHCommons “Getting Started with the Digital Humanities,” 129^th MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, January 2014.
• “Gaming Writing: Teaching (with) Video Games,” invited workshop, TYCA-PNW/PNWCA Conference, Highline Community College, Des Moines, WA, October 2012.
• “Teaching (with) Video Games” workshop, co-presented with Sarah Kremen-Hicks, THATCamp Games, University of Maryland, January 2012.
• “Close Playing, or, Teaching (with) Video Games” workshop, THATCamp Pacific Northwest (PNW), UW-Bothell, November 2011.

Exhibitions

• Archaea: Bane (collaborative, semi-autopoetic high fantasy card game) for the exhibition “SLSArcade 2024,” part of he Game Studies Stream, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Dallas, TX, upcoming November 2024. 
• “Playing as Making” (interactive game and essay) for the exhibition “Demo/Playing, or, the SLSArcade,” part of the “Game Studies” stream, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, November 2019. 

Guest Lectures and Class Visits

• “Medieval Fantasy and LARP,” workshop for Dr. Dorothy Kim’s ENGL 43B “Medieval Play,” Brandeis University, Boston, MA, October 25, 2022 & October 22 & 23, 2024. 
• “LARP and Medievalisms,” workshop for Dr. Mary Kate Hurley’s courses, Ohio University, Athens, OH:
  • ENG 2970T: Introduction to English Studies (HTC), October 14 & 16, 2024.
  • ENG 2970T: Introduction to English Studies (HTC), October 31 & November 2, 2023.
  • ENG 2970T: Introduction to English Studies (HTC), October 17 & 19, 2022.
  • ENG 2970T: Introduction to English Studies (HTC), October 18 & 20, 2021.
  • ENG 3070J: Writing & Research in English Studies: “Beowulf,” November 18 & 20, 2019.
• “Octavia E. Butler, (Mistress of) Ambivalence, and the Radical Potential of SF,” guest discussion for Dr. Michelle Gaffey’s EN 193 “Worldbuilding: Science Fiction and Fantasy,” Marymount University, April 11, 2024, online. 
• “Managing the Literature Classroom: Discussion, Diversity, and Inclusion,” guest discussion for Dr. Jeremy Webster’s ENGL 7810 “Professional Issues in Teaching College English,” OHIO, April 24, 2023, graduate course. 
• “Rethinking Representation in Role-Playing Games,” guest discussion for Dr. Aaron Trammell’s GDIM 53: “Roleplaying and Improvisational Play,” Game Design and Interactive Media Speaker Series, UC Irvine, February 15, 2022. Online.
• “Why are the Digital Humanities So Straight?,” guest discussion for Dr. Yavanna Brownlee’s HUM 320: “Digital Humanities,” University of Northern Colorado, February 11, 2022. Online.
• “Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu and Feminist Science Fiction,” guest discussion for Dr. Stevi Costa’s BIS 387: “Women in American Literature,” University of Washington, Bothell, WA, May 14, 2020.  Online.
• “Queergaming,” guest discussion for Dr. Dorothy Kim’s ENGL 41A: “Critical Digital Humanities Methods and Applications,” Brandeis University, Boston, MA, March 15, 2020.  Online.
• “Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin and the History of Science Fiction,” guest discussion for Dr. Heather Edward’s ENG 2010: “Introduction to Prose Fiction and Nonfiction,” Ohio University, Athens, OH, February 25, 2020. 
• “Gaming Difference: Race, Gender, Queerness, & Inclusive Design,” invited talk for Dr. Tyler Fox’s HCDE 298: “Introduction to Inclusive Design” course, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 30, 2019.
• “Playing as Making, Gaming as Inquiry, Digital Games as Digital Humanities,” invited talk for Dr. Rahul Gairola’s EGL 246: “Digital Humanities: Reading and Writing in the Online World” course, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, April 29, 2019. 
• “Race and Gender in Fantasy Live-Action Role-Playing Games,” invited talk and workshop, for Dr. Kevin Uhalde’s HIST 1222 “Medieval History in Film and Literature” course, Ohio University, Athens, OH, April 4 & 9, 2018.
• “Calling a Hold: Queering the Magic Circle of Fantasy Live-Action Role-Playing Games,” invited talk and workshop, for Dr. Dorothy  Kim’s ENGL 215: “Medieval Play,”  Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 26, 2017.
• “Game Studies,” guest instructor for graduate seminar, ENGL593: “Textual Studies & Digital Technologies,” Dr. Brian Reed, UW, October 2012.

Conferences

• “A Practical Guide to Close Playing: A Workshop,” organizer and presenter, Alt+F4: Rebooting the Community after GamerGate Conference, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI, September 26-29, 2024. 
• “Games and Asia/America: A Roundtable,” roundtable, organizer and presenter, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Chicago, IL, April 25-27, 2024. 
• “Queer Chaos: Game Changers and Changing the Game,” chair and presenter, for the panel “Role/Play: Reframings and Redefinitions,” part of the Game Studies Area, Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference, Chicago, IL, March 27-30, 2024.
• “Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) as Embodied Design & Experiential Learning,” part of the panel “Teaching Games with Games 8: Face to Face,” Game Developers Conference (GDC) Educator’s Summit, San Francisco, CA, March 18-22, 2024.
•  “Teaching Games at the End of the World,” roundtable, chair and presenter, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Boston, MA, March 14-17, 2024.
• “Roundtable Two: Visual Novels, AI, and Classrooms,” invited respondent, Leveling Up the Classroom Conference, UKFCU Esports Lounge, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, January 27 & 28, 2024. 
• “Game Changers: Queer Escape, Queer Chaos, and Reparative Play,” for the panel “Role/Play” part of the “Game Studies” stream, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, October 26-29, 2023. 
• “The Future is LARP,” workshop, The Future of Writing: A Symposium for Teachers Pedagogy, Process, Potential, theme “Interactivity,” USC Dornsife Writing Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, May 1, 2023.
• “Imagining Asianfuturist Games,” for the panel “Techno-Orientalism Evolves: Asianized Futures in Contemporary Film, Television, and Games,” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Long Beach, CA, April 6-8, 2023, presented remotely. 
• “Works-in-Progress Roundtable,” presenter and moderator, part of the “Game Studies” stream, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, October 2022.
• “Games of Ruin, Repair, and Renewal: Asia/America at Play,” roundtable, presenter, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Denver, CO, April 14-16, 2022.
• “Educator’s Summit: Teaching Games with Games 7: Changing the Game,” roundtable, presenter, Game Developers Conference (GDC), San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2022.
• “Embodied Estrangement and the Technological Fix in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu,” for the panel “Tigers, Scales, and Sexy Sutures: The Embodied Futures of Larissa Lai,” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, DC, January 6-9, 2022, postponed to 2023 due to COVID-19.
• “Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us),” roundtable, presenter, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), April 7-10, 2021, online.
• “Digital Roundtables and Virtual Discussions,” co-presented with Abigail Dykstra, for the 2021 Spotlight on Learning Conference, Center for Teaching and Learning, Ohio University, April 5-9, 2021, online.
• “Queer Mechanics, Queering Death: Queers in Love at the End of the World and Infinite, Intimate,” for the panel “Playing with Death in Games,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), March 17-21, 2021, online.
• “Stinky, Scaly, Freaky Bodies: Queer Haptic Textuality in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl and The Tiger Flu,” for the panel “Literature: Raced Freakery,” Vari(A)bilities 5: Exhibiting Humanity, Inhabiting the Body, June 2020, canceled due to COVID-19.
• “Re-radicalizing Queer: A Keywords Primer on Race and Queerness,” roundtable, presenter, Queerness and Games Conference, Montreal, QC, May 2020, canceled due to COVID-19.
• “Queer & Indigenous Games: A Pedagogical Bootcamp,” workshop, co-presented with Ashlee Bird (UC Davis), Queerness and Games Conference, Montreal, QC, May 2020, canceled due to COVID-19.
• “Troubling Games: Putting Politics into Play,” roundtable, presenter, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Washington, DC, April 2020, canceled due to COVID-19.
• “Teaching (with) Queer & Indigenous Games,” workshop, co-presented with Ashlee Bird (UC Davis), Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, May 2019.
• “Can Anyone Play with Race?: Game Studies and Virtual Sanctuaries,” roundtable, presenter, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Madison, WI, April 2019.
• “Playing with Game Studies: A Pedagogy Workshop,” roundtable, presenter, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Seattle, WA, March 2019.
• “LARP as Queer Space, Queer Contact, and Queer Pedagogy,” for the panel “Body Texts: Movement, Play, and Dress in Writing (and Other) Classrooms,” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Pittsburgh, PA, March, 2019, presented virtually.
• “LARP as Queer Space, Queer Contact, Queer Pedagogy,” for the panel “Virtual/Reality/Play” part of the “Game Studies” stream, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), University of Toronto & York University, Toronto, Ontario, November 2018.
• “Reading, Writing, Learning the Utopian: Linguistic Estrangement in Octavia E. Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ted Chiang,” for the panel “What Good is Science Fiction?: Reimagining Race, Gender, Queerness, and Disability in Feminist Utopias,” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Atlanta, GA, November 2018.
• “Theorizing the Problematic Medievalisms of Dungeons & Dragons and Popular Fantasy Narratives,” invited roundtable presenter and game master, organized by Ilan Mitchell-Smith, 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2018.
• “Playing Queer Asia: Video Games, Sexuality, and Asian America,” invited discussant, 2018 Association for Asian American Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 2018.
• “Techno-Sanitation: Racial Biopolitics amidst Digitized Neoliberalism,” invited discussant, 2018 Association for Asian American Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 2018.
• “Drawing the Oankali,” presenter for the roundtable “Approaches to Teaching Octavia E. Butler in the Academy,” 2018 Octavia E. Butler Literary Society Conference, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, February 2018.
• “Queergaming,” for the panel “Gender and Queerness” part of the “Game Studies” stream, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, November 2017.
• “New Voices in Video Game Studies” roundtable moderated by Ian Bogost, presenter, part of the “Game Studies” stream, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, November 2017.
• “New Voices in Video Game Studies,” roundtable, presenter and chair, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCAACA) 47^th Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2017.
• “Better, Stronger, Furiosa: Better, Stronger, Furiosa: Bionic Women and Postfeminist Posthumanism,” presenter for the panel “Automating Genders: Bodies, Media, and the Posthuman,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCAACA) 47^th Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2017.
• “Queer Game Studies: Q&A with Scholars,” roundtable participant,” GaymerX4, Santa Clara, CA, October 2016.
• “Casual Play, Gamifying Queerness, Or Why I Should Dump My Mini Gay Boyfriend” presenter and chair for the panel “Games Studies I: Rethinking Game Economies,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCAACA) 46^th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 20-25, 2016.
• “Queer,” part of the “Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities” electronic roundtable, organized by Rebecca Davis, Matthew K. Gold, and Katherine D. Harris, 131^st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, TX, January 2016.
• “Soft Skins, Hard Coded: Straight/White/Washing in Video Games” for the panel “Changing Mindsets,” Queerness and Games Conference, University of California, Berkeley, October, 2015.
• “No Digital Water Shortage,” roundtable participant and co-organizer, “Speculative Environments: Environmental Studies, Media, and Science Fictions,” sponsored by the Environmental Studies and Sustainability program and Department of English, Drew University, Madison, NJ, April 17, 2015.
• “Queer (Im)Possibility and Straightwashing in Frontierville and World of Warcraft” presenter and chair for the panel “Damsels, Bronies, Tennos, and Toons: Gender Matters in Video Games,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCAACA) 45^th Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2015.
• “Digital Queer Utopias: Gaming, Performance,” roundtable participant, organized by Ed Chamberlain, American Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA, November 2014.
• “Cards Against Humanity are __________” for the panel “Meaningful Mechanics: Game Design, Difference, and Social Justice,” Queerness and Games Conference, University of California, Berkeley, October 2014, presented virtually.
• “Queerness Can(not) Be Designed: Video Games and the Trouble with Protocol, Part II” for the panel “Digital Queers/Queering the Digital: Gaming, Programming, Performance,” sponsored by the Division on Gay Studies in Language and Literature, 129^th MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, January 2014.
• “Queer Glitches, or, The Recuperation of Vanellope Von Schweetz,” for the panel “Queer Videogame Ecologies,” part of the “Critical Game Studies” stream, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, October 2013.
• “Keywords for Video Game Studies” roundtable chair and participant, Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PNASA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 2013.
• “Queerness Can(not) Be Designed: Video Games and the Trouble with Protocol” for the “Game Studies XVII: Crossing Borders and Occupying Margins” topic area, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCAACA) 43^rd Annual Conference, Washington, DC, March 2013.
• “‘A Man Chooses, A Player Obeys:’ Bioshock, Transhumanism, and the Limits of Queerness” for the panel “Playing the Past, Playing the Future: Time in Contemporary Video Games,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Chicago, IL, March 2013.
• “Gaming Posthumanism” for the “Critical Game Studies” stream, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Milwaukee, WI, September 2012.
• “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hermione?” for the “YA Literature and Feminism” panel, Geek Girl Con, Seattle, August 2012.
• “Close Playing: Literary Methods and Video Game Studies” roundtable participant, organized by Mark L. Sample (George Mason), 127^th MLA Annual Convention, Seattle, January 2012.
• “Close Playing, Paired Playing: A Practicum” for the “Digital Narratives and Gaming for Teaching Language and Literature” panel, co-presented with Timothy Welsh (Loyola New Orleans), 127^th MLA Annual Convention, Seattle, January 2012.
• “Bashing Abbie: Metroid M, Women (and Queer) Gamers, and Heteromasculinist Resistance” for the “Geeky Intersections: The Mangle of Performance and Play” panel, Geek Girl Con, Seattle, October 2011.
• “Queering Bioshock: Bodyhacking Race, Gender, and Sexuality” for the “Critical Game Studies” stream, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Kitchener, Ontario, September 2011.
• “Close Playing, or, Video Games as Practicum” poster presentation, co-presented with Timothy Welsh, 2011 UW Teaching and Learning Symposium, UW, April 2011.
• “Save Points: Teaching (with) Video Games” poster presentation, co-presented with Timothy Welsh, 2010 UW Teaching and Learning Symposium, UW, April 2010.
• “Keywords for Video Game Studies” roundtable chair and participant, Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Eighth Annual Meeting, University of California, Berkeley, CA, March 2010.
• “Queer/ing/s Online” colloquium presenter, Queer + Public + Performance Working Group (co-presented with the HASTAC Scholars @ UW), Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, Seattle, December 2009.
• “Gaming as Writing: World of Warcraft as World of Wordcraft” for the panel “Save Points: Gaming as Writing, Production, and Play in the Contact Zone,” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), San Francisco, CA, March 2009.
• “‘How Ya Doin’, Mon?’: Coding and Coded Race in World of Warcraft” for the panel “Literature And/As New Media,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Portland, ME, November 2007.
• “‘Making Us All Queer’: Queering Transhumanism” for the panel “Queering Technology,” UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2007, University of California, Los Angeles, October 19-20, 2007.
• “Virtual Office Hours, A Rhetorical and Pedagogical Experiment” for the panel “V.U.: Spaces, Articulations, and Interfaces of the Virtual University,” co-written & presented with Jentery Sayers, Computers and Writing 2007, Wayne State University, Detroit, May 17-20, 2007.
• “Looking for Ophera Windfury: Imagining Race (and Sexuality) in World of Warcraft” for the panel “Race and Video Games,” (dis)junctions 2007, University of California, Riverside, April 6, 2007.
• “Birth of the Cyberqueer Manifesto” for the panel “(Under)e-presentations: Negotiating Marginalized Cyberidentities” Panel Chair and Presenter, Society of Literature and Science (SLS, now SLSA) Conference, Durham, NC, October 2004.

Teaching Experience & Courses:

Ohio University

• ENG 2310: Speculative Literature, OHIO, including:
  •  “Contemporary Fantasy of Color,” OHIO, Spring 2024. 
  •  “YA SF,” OHIO, Autumn 2023. 
• ENG 2320: Literature and Social Justice: “Books Balls, and Barbie: Camp as Everyday Theory,” OHIO, Spring 2024.
• HC 2950: 1804 Scholars Colloquium, OHIO Honors Program, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, & Spring 2024.
• ENG 7340: Twentieth Century American Literature: “Queer(ing) Realism(s): 20/21C American Literatures,” OHIO, Autumn 2023, graduate course. 
• ENG 7770: Colloquium on the Profession of English: “English Job Placement & Professionalization,” OHIO, Autumn 2023, graduate course. 
• HC 4500: Cutler Scholars Colloquium, OHIO, including:
  • “Queer/Home,” Autumn 2023.
  • “Play, Performance, Fashion,” Spring 2022.
• ENG 1100: Crossing Cultures with Text, OHIO, including:
  • “Literature as LARP as Literature,” Spring 2023. 
  • “Alternative Futures: Literatures and Games of Color,” Autumn 2022.
  • “Speculative Worlds: Introduction to SF of Color,” Autumn 2020.
• ENG 3260: Gay and Lesbian Literature, OHIO, including:
  • “Queer Literatures of Color,” Spring 2023.
  • “Queering the American Dream,” Autumn 2020 (online) & Autumn 2021 (in person). 
• ENG 3380: Ethnic American Literature, OHIO, including:
  • “Asian American Literature and Imagining Asianfuturisms,” Autumn 2022.
  • “__________ Futurisms: Ethnic American SF,” Spring 2021.
• ENG 2010: Introduction to Prose Fiction and Nonfiction, OHIO, including: 
  • “Genre. Text. Play.,” Spring 2022.
  • “Read. Write. Bodies.,” Autumn 2017.
• ENG 5360: Critical Theory I: “Theory, Discipline, and Diversity: Contemporary Literary & Critical Theory of Color,” OHIO, Spring 2022, graduate course.
• ENG 1510: Writing & Rhetoric I: “Keywords for Popular Culture,” OHIO, Autumn 2021.
• ENG 3060J: Women and Writing, OHIO, including:
  • “Feminist Approaches to Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Summer 2020 & Spring 2021, online course.
  • “Critical Approaches to Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Summer 2018 & Spring 2019, online course.
  • “Feminist Science Fiction,” Spring 2018.
• ENG 3390: African American Literature 1930-Present: “African American Science & Speculative Fictions,” OHIO, Autumn 2019.
• ENG 3550: World Literature: “World Literature as Worldmaking,” OHIO, Autumn 2019.
• ENG 7800: Special Studies Seminar: “Keywords for Video Game Studies,” Spring 2018, online, graduate course.
• ENG 2100: Critical Approaches to Popular Literature: “Why are Americans Afraid of Dragons?: Critical Approaches to Reading, Writing, and Playing Fantasy” | Autumn 2018
• ENG 3850: Writing About Culture and Society, OHIO, including:
  • “Critical Approaches to Virtual Worlds & Video Games,” Autumn 2018.
  • “Ready Player Two: Critical Approaches to Virtual Worlds & Video Games,” Autumn 2017.
• ENG 3230: American Literature: 1918 to Present: “Queer(ing) American Literature,” OHIO, Spring 2018.

Directed and Independent Study

• ENG 7940: Research, OHIO, including:
  • Zhuang Du (English, Literature), Autumn 2024.
  • Samantha Imperi (English, Literature), Autumn 2024.
• ENG 2981T: Specialized Tutorial, OHIO, including:
  • “Intersections in American Literatures,” Veronica Savitski (English, Honors Tutorial College), Spring 2024. 
  • “Intersections in American Literatures,” Delany Cunningham (English, Honors Tutorial College), Autumn 2022.
  • “Intersections in American Literatures,” Alesha Davis (English, Honors Tutorial College), Autumn 2021.
  • “American Literature of Color,” Meredith Mallon-Jeffrey (English, Honors Tutorial College), Spring 2021. 
  • “Intersections in American Literature,” Will Bower (English, Honors Tutorial College), Autumn 2019. 
  • “Fantasy Literature in the American Tradition,” March Washelesky (English, Honors Tutorial College), Autumn 2018.
  • “Feminist Memoirs: Text and Film,” Casey Machenheimer (English, Honors Tutorial College), Spring 2018.
• ENG 3980T: Specialized Tutorial, OHIO, including:
  • “Speculative (Queer) Monsters,” Acadia Hansen (English, Honors Tutorial College), Spring 2024.
  • “Black Literature in the High School,” Alesha Davis (English, Honors Tutorial College), Spring 2023. 
  • “Queer(ing) Femininity,” Kel Fisher (English, Honors Tutorial College), Spring 2023. 
  • “Experimental Texts,” Will Bower (English, Honors Tutorial College), Spring 2021. 
• ENG 4930: Independent Reading, OHIO, including:
  • “Queer Drama/Verse,” Meg Sharp (Media Arts & Studies) & Jamie Miller (WGSS), Spring 2024. 
  • “Queer(ing) YA,” Emily Tyler (Integrated Language Arts), Autumn 2021.
  • “Feminist and Postfeminist YA,” Sara Dowler (English), Spring 2021. 
  • “Into the Woods: Feminist Approaches to YA Fairy Tales,” Sara Dowler (English), Autumn 2020. 
  • “Writing the Other,” Dominique Edwards (English, Creative Writing), Autumn 2019. 
  • “Identities/Borders/Crossings: International Authors,” Sage Foote (English), Spring 2019. 
  • “Critical Approaches to Reading, Writing, and Playing Fantasy,” Andrew Burns (BA in Integrated Media), Autumn 2018.
• ENG 6910: Apprenticeship in Teaching Literature, OHIO, graduate course, including:
  • Apprenticeship for ENG 2310: Speculative Literature, Amanda Ellard (PhD English, Creative Writing), Spring 2024.
  • Apprenticeship for ENG 1100: Crossing Cultures with Text, Laura Rice (MA English, Literature), Autumn 2022.
  • Apprenticeship for ENG 3380: Ethnic American Literature, Abbie Dykstra (PhD English, Creative Writing), Spring 2021, graduate course.
  • Apprenticeship for ENG 3550: World Literature, Lucero Gonzalez (MA English, Literature), Autumn 2019, graduate course.
  • Apprenticeship for ENG 3060J: Women and Writing, Sarah Haak (MA English, Creative Writing), Spring 2019, graduate course.
• ENG 3970T: Specialized Tutorial, OHIO, including:
  • “Video Games (as) Storytelling,” Rey De Spain (English, Honors Tutorial College), Autumn 2023. 
  • “Queer(ing) Frankenstein(s),” Ivy Posey (Theater, Honors Tutorial College), Autumn 2023. 
  • “Troubling Graphic Novels,” Sarah Braun (Art History, Honors Tutorial College), Autumn 2023. 
  • “Critical Approaches to Indie Games,” Hyrum Crawford (Media Arts & Studies, Honors Tutorial College), Autumn 2020.
  • “Electronic Literature, Digital Narratives,” Kayla McGinnis (English, Honors Tutorial College), Autumn 2019.
• WGSS 4930: Independent Reading, “Narrating Self,” Ty Battle (English), OHIO, Spring 2023. 
• ENG 5930: Independent Reading, OHIO, including:
  • “Queer Performance Studies,” Tyler Adams (PhD Interdisciplinary Arts), Spring 2023, graduate course. 
  • “Introduction to Queer Game Studies,” Kevin Dennis (English, Non-Degree), Autumn 2021, graduate course.
  • “Readings in 20/21C American Literature of Color,” Laura Post (PhD English, Creative Writing) and Abbie Dykstra (PhD English, Creative Writing), Spring 2021, graduate course. 
• ENG 7340: 20th Century American Literature: “Queer(ing) American Literature,” Namrata Jain (Fulbright Teaching Fellow), OHIO, Spring 2018, graduate course.

Undergraduate Honors Theses

• Advisor, Honors Thesis, Alesha Davis, “Reforming African American Literature in High Schools,” selected as HTC Thesis of the Year: Publishable Manuscript, Honors Tutorial College, English, OHIO, ENG 4980T (Autumn 2023) & ENG 4980T (Spring 2024).
• Advisor, Honors Thesis, Will Bower, “Vessel: A Collection,” Honors Tutorial College, English, OHIO, ENG 4970T (Autumn 2021) & ENG 4980T (Spring 2022) & ENG 4980T (Spring 2022).
• Advisor, Honors Thesis, March Washelesky, “‘The Hero of Everything: A Novel Based on Diversifying Fantasy,” Honors Tutorial College, English, OHIO, ENG 4970T (Autumn 2020) & ENG 4980T (Spring 2021).

Graduate MA Committees

• Member, MA Committee, Alex Rienerth, “Transness in Beloved, The Gilda Stories, and Fledgling,” Literature, English, OHIO, 2024-25.
• Member, MA Committee, Elizabeth Wolf, “Midwestern Gothic,” Creative Writing, English, OHIO, March 2024.
• Member, MA Committee, Laura Rice, “ ‘What Is It? What Makes Us Feel for Our Hills As We Do?: Gender, Power, and Possibilities for Resistance in Appalachian Fiction by Women Writers,” Literature, English, OHIO, August 2022-April 2023.
• Member, MA Committee, Erika Johnson, “ ‘But Now She is a Woman, She Must Have Men’: The Importance of Care and Queer Possibilities Illustrated by Female Vampires in ‘Luella Miller’ and ‘Lady of the House of Love,’” Literature, English, OHIO, August 2022-April 2023.
• Outside Department Representative, MA Thesis, Natallia Yeloshyna, “The New Collaborative Cinema: Fan Labor in Contemporary Film Franchises,” School of Film, OHIO, Autumn 2020-Spring 2021.
• Member, MA Committee, Sarah Haak, “Great Wounds: A Collection of Essays and Prose,” Creative Writing, Nonfiction, English, OHIO, May 2019.

Graduate PhD Committees

• Member, PhD Committee, Alex Boesch, Scripps College of Communication, OHIO, April 2024-present.
• Member, PhD Committee, Allison Combs, “The Modernist Dog: From Vivisection to Dog Love in Modernist Literature,” Literary History, English, OHIO, April 2019-October 2023.
• Member, PhD Exam Committee, Laura Post, Creative Writing, English, OHIO, November 2020-May 2023.
• Member, PhD Committee, Abigail Dykstra, “Am I Mad: Crafting ‘The Madwoman’ in Contemporary Literature” & The Red Oaks, Creative Writing, English, OHIO, September 2020-April 2023.
• Member, PhD Exam Committee, Hannah Megna, Rhetoric and Composition, English, OHIO, January 2023.
• Member, PhD Committee, Courtney Mauck, “‘Tap to Add a Snap!’: Critically Composing Using Snapchat,” Rhetoric and Composition, English, OHIO, February 2019-May 2022. 
• Outside Department Representative, PhD Committee, Mike Chen, “Changing the Narrative Perspective,” Computational Linguistics, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, OHIO, April 2020-March 2022. 
• Member, PhD Exam Committee, Jill Manoukian, Rhetoric and Composition, English, OHIO, January 2022.
• Member, PhD Exam Committee, Brie Fleming, Rhetoric and Composition, English, OHIO, January 2022.
• Member, PhD Exam Committee, Robert Bern, Rhetoric and Composition, English, OHIO, January 2022.
• Member, Dissertation Committee, Samuel Stinson, “Writing with Video Games,” English, OHIO, April 2018.

University of Oregon

• WGS 361: Gender and Film, Television, & Media, UO, including:
  • “#GamerGate to #INeedDiverseGames: Gender, Race, and Queerness in Virtual Worlds and Video Games,” UO, Winter 2016 &  Autumn 2016
  • “‘Serious Research Mode’: Critical Approaches to Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Summer 2016, online course
  • “#BuffyTurns20: Critical Approaches to Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Summer 2017, online course
• WGS 352: Gender and Literature, UO, including:
  • “Queer(ing) Dystopias,” UO, Spring 2017
  • “Queer(ing) American Literature,” UO, Spring 2016
• WGS 201: Introduction to Queer Studies, UO,  Autumn 2016 & Spring 2017
• WGS 199: LGBTQIA Scholars Academic Residence Community (ARC) Colloquium, UO,  Autumn 2016, Winter 2017, & Spring 2017
• WGS 410/510: “Speculative and Science Fictions of Color,” UO, Winter 2017, undergraduate and graduate course
• WGS 410/510: Feminist Science Fiction: “Tiptree, Le Guin, Butler,” UO,  Autumn 2016, undergraduate and graduate course
• WGS 199: Gender and Popular Culture, UO, including:
  • “Heroes, Monsters, & Queens: Dressing Up as Critical Play,” Spring 2015
  • “Welcome to the Whedonverse: Feminism, Fandom, and Popular Culture,” Autumn 2015
• WGS 422/522: Sexuality Studies: “Advanced Queer Theory and Cultural Studies,” UO, Autumn 2015

Directed and Independent Study

• WGS 405: Reading, “Homonationalism,” Emitt Cummings (BA Political Science and Queer Studies Minor), UO, Spring 2017
• WGS 605: Reading & Conference, “Queer Theory and Bodies,” Vé Gulbrandsen (MA Public Policy and WGS Certificate), UO, Autumn 2016
• WGS 605: Reading & Conference, “Dance, Masculinity, and Queer Studies,” Bryant Henderson (MA Dance and WGS Certificate), UO, Winter 2016

Drew University

• ENGL 107: Asian American Literature: “Looking for Ming: Asian American Speculative & Science Fiction,” Drew University, Spring 2015
• ENGL110: Introduction to Media Studies: “Page, Wave, Screen, Circuit,” Drew University, Spring 2014, Spring 2015
• ENGL 326: Approaches to Literature (Cultural): “Introduction to Queer Theory,” crosslisted WGST 304, Drew University, Spring 2015
• ENGL 115: Topics in Literary Studies, “Literatures of the Fantastic,” Department of English, Drew University, Autumn 2014
• ENGL 356: Advanced Studies in American Literature of the 20th Century, “Cyberpunk: Past, Present, & Future,” Department of English, Drew University, Autumn 2014
• AMST 101: American Popular Culture: “‘Too Cool for School’: Students in American Film, Media, and Pop Culture,” Department of English, Drew University, Autumn 2014
• ENGL201: Selected Topics in Literature: “Introduction to Children’s Literature: Critical Approaches to Harry Potter and Others,” Department of English, Drew University, Summer 2014
• ENGL253: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition 1900-Present,  Department of English, Drew University, Spring 2014
• ENGL325: Approaches to Literature: “Introduction to Digital Humanities,”  Department of English, Drew University, Spring 2014
• ENGL357: Advanced Studies in Literature of the 20th Century: “Posthuman Narratives,”  Department of English, Drew University, Spring 2014
• ENGL106: African American Literature: “African American Science Fiction,” Department of English, Drew University, Autumn 2013
• ENGL204: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Language: “Virtual Worlds & Video Games,” Department of English, Drew University, Autumn 2013
• ENGL374: Advanced Literary Studies Seminar: “Queer(ing) American Literature,” Department of English, Drew University, Autumn 2013

Directed and Independent Study

• CRP5F: PhD. Capstone Essay Preparation, “Gaming Culture,” Mike Hitchcock (Ph.D. in History and Culture), Drew University, Winter and Spring 2017.
• HC 990: Research Tutorial, “Lesbian Identities in the 20th Century,” Kathryn Peters (Ph.D. in Arts and Letters), Drew University, Spring 2015
• HC 990: Research Tutorial, “Lesbian Identities in the 20th Century,” Nicole Rizzuto (Ph.D. in History and Culture), Drew University, Autumn 2014
• ENGL 300: Independent Study, “Culture and the Superhero Genre,” Rachel Pitman (English), Drew University, Autumn 2013

Undergraduate Honors Theses

• Reader: “Queer Negativity and Utopianism in Virginia Woolf and D.H Lawrence,” Chris Recio (English), Drew University, 2015.

University of Washington

• Essay Writing, “10 Things I Hate About Writing, or, A Writer’s Bootcamp,” Robinson Center for Young Scholars, UW, Summer Stretch 2015 & 2016
• ENGL307: Cultural Studies: “Critical Approaches to Tolkien: Cultural Studies and Fantasy Literature,” Department of English, UW, Spring 2013
• ENGL242: Reading Prose Fiction, Department of English, UW, including:
  • “Not Your Average High School Novel Class: Re-Reading American Literature,” Spring 2009 & 2013.
  • “Cyberpunk: Past, Present, & Future,” Winter 2013.
  • “Banned, Bowdlerized, and Burned: Reading (and Writing) as Political,” Spring 2011.
  • “Reading Intersections: Literature as Worldmaking,” Winter 2008
• ENGL466: Introduction to LGBT Studies: “Queer Inquiries,” Department of English, UW, Winter 2013
• CHID250: Special Topics: “Identity and Technology,” Department of Comparative History of Ideas, UW, Autumn 2012
• ENGL200: Reading Literature: “Literatures of the Fantastic,” Department of English, UW, Autumn 2007 & Summer 2012
• CHID480: Special Topics: “Identity and Technology,” Department of Comparative History of Ideas, UW, Spring 2012
• CHID496: Focus Group, Comparitive History of Ideas, UW, on topics including:
  • “Heroes & Monsters: Understanding Live-Action Role-Playing,” Spring 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, & 2013
  • “Video+Games+Other+Media,” co-taught with Sarah Kremen-Hicks, Winter 2012
  • “‘Serious Research Mode’: Critical Approaches to Buffy (and Stuff),” co-taught with Jane Lee, Winter 2011
  • “Close Playing, or, Bioshock as Practicum,” co-taught with Timothy Welsh, Winter 2011.
  • “Keywords for Video Game Studies,” co-taught with Timothy Welsh, Autumn 2010
  • “Why So Serious?: Video Games as Persuasion, Politics, and Propaganda,” co-taught with Timothy Welsh, Winter 2010
  • “Bioshock: Cyborg Morality and Posthuman Choice,” co-taught with Timothy Welsh, Autumn 2009
  • “Paper & Dice 101: Tabletop Gaming as Storytelling, Storyplaying,” Autumn 2008
• ENGL111: Composition (with Literature), Expository Writing Program, UW, including:
  • “The Mirror of Erised: Critical Approaches to Harry Potter,” Spring 2007, 2008, & Winter 2012
  • “Critical Approaches to Popular Fiction, Or, Harry Potter vs. Twilight,” Autumn 2010.
  • “Imagining Cyberspace,” Autumn 2006
• ENGL281: Intermediate Expository Writing: “10 Reasons I Hate (Like) Writing, Or, A Writer’s Bootcamp,” Department of English, UW, Autumn 2009 & 2011
• ENGL108: Writing Ready, Summer LEAP, Student-Athlete Academic Services, UW, Summer 2009, 2010, & 2011
• ENGL131: Composition (Exposition), Expository Writing Program, UW, including:
  • “Critical Approaches to Popular Fiction, Or, Harry Potter vs. Twilight,” Autumn 2010
  • “Critical Approaches to Harry Potter,” Winter 2010
  • “Diversity & Multiculturalism,” Spring 2006
  • “A Question of Diversity,” Winter 2006
  • “Seeing and Seen: Analyzing Representation,” Autumn 2005
• ENGL207: Introduction to Cultural Studies: “Virtual Worlds & Video Games,” Department of English, UW, Winter 2009 & Spring 2010
• ENGL250: Introduction to American Literature: “The American Imagination: Progress, Exploration, and Science Fictions,” Department of English, UW, Autumn 2008
• GIS140: Writing Ready, Summer LEAP, Student-Athlete Academic Services, UW, Summer 2007 & 2008
• GIS140: Writing Ready, Early Fall Start Program, UW, Summer 2006 & 2007

 University of Maryland

• EDCP108L: College Writing and Reading, Scholastic Transitions Educational Program (STEP), Division of Letters and Sciences, UMD, Summer 2005
• UNIV100: The University and the Student (Standard & Media Literacy Cluster), Division of Letters and Sciences, UMD, 9/04-5/05
• ENGL 101, 101X, 101S, 101H, 101+” Introduction to Academic Writing, Dept. of English, UMD, 8/94-12/98, 8/02-5/05, including English as a Second Language, College Park Scholars, First Year Focus, and Honors sections

Service & Community Activities:

 Professional Service

• Co-organizer of the “Game Studies” stream for the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), including:
  • “Climate Diasporas,” SLSA’s 37^st Annual Meeting, Southern Methodist University and University of Texas-Dallas, Dallas, TX, upcoming November 7-10, 2024. 
  • “Alien,” SLSA”s 36^st Annual Meeting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, October 26-29, 2023. 
  • “Reading Minds,” SLSA’s 35^th Annual Meeting, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, October 2022. 
  • “Experimental Engagements,” SLSA’s 33^rd Annual Meeting, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, November 2019. 
  • “Out of Mind,” SLSA’s 32^nd Annual Meeting, University of Toronto & York University, Toronto, Ontario, November 2018. 
  • “Out of Time,” SLSA”s 31^st Annual Meeting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, November 2017. 
• Editor in Chief, Analog Game Studies, Play Story Press, 2024-present, https://analoggamestudies.org/.
• Co-organizer, Generation Analog: The Tabletop Games and Education Conference, sponsored by Analog Game Studies and Game In Lab, including:
  • “HOME,” upcoming July 24 & 25, 2024, as lead organizer, online. 
  • “Biased Play,” July 26 & 27, 2023, online. 
  • “People, Materialities, and Analog Game Culture,” July 27 & 28, 2022, online. 
• Co-instructor with Dr. Jason Boyd, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI, https://dhsi.org/), University of Victoria, BC, including: 
  • “Queer(ing) Digital Humanities,” a week-long course, upcoming June 2-7, 2024, in person.
  • “Queer Digital Humanities,” a week-long course, June 5-9, 2023, in person.
  • “Queer Digital Humanities,” a week-long course, June 6-10, 2022, online.
  • “Queer Digital Humanities,” a week-long course, June 14-18, 2021, online.
• Chair, Diversity and Outreach, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), 2024-present, https://www.litsciarts.org/governance/. 
• Mentor, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Mentorship Program, supporting graduate students on the job market, 2023-2024 (2 mentees) & 2024-2025 (2 mentees).
• Co-chair, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group (VGSSIG, https://vgssig.wordpress.com/), 2022-2024.
• Co-organizer of “The Confluence: Octavia E. Butler at the Intersection of Cultural Critique and Climate Collapse,” Octavia E. Butler Literary Society 2021 Conference, co-presented with the St. Catherine University Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women, March 6-7, 2021, online.
• Assistant Editor, Analog Game Studies, ETC Press, 2021-2024, https://analoggamestudies.org/.
• Member, Ohio College Teaching Consortium (OCTC) Planning Committee, 2021-present, https://ohiocollegeteachingconsortium.org/.
• Member, K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award Committee, American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2021-present. 
• Social Media Liaison, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), 2019-present. https://www.litsciarts.org/governance/.
• Vice-President, The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society (OEB), 2019-present. https://oebsociety.wordpress.com/officers/.
• Lead Organizer, THATCamp Epic Play, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, May 24 & 25, 2013.
• Contributing Blogger for liberal.education nation, covering the 97^th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Univerisities (AACU), San Francisco, January 2011, http://blog.aacu.org/

 University Service

• Rhetoric/Composition Instructional Faculty Search (2 positions), committee member, Department of English, Ohio University, Spring 2023.   
• Admissions, English Honors Tutorial College, Department of English, Ohio University, Spring 2023.   
• Admissions, Cutler Scholars Program, Honors Programs at Ohio University, Spring 2023.    
• Graduate Committee, Department of English, Ohio University, 2022-present. 
• Rhetoric & Composition Committee, Department of English, Ohio University, 2022-present. 
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, & Belonging (DEIAB) Faculty Affairs Council, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, Ohio University, 2021-present.
• Co-chair, Diversity and Equity Committee, Department of English, Ohio University, 2021-present.
• Member, Advisory Board, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio University, 2020-present. 
• Pre-Tenure Representative, Administrative Committee, Department of English, Ohio University, 2020-present.
• Job Placement Committee, Department of English, Ohio University, 2017-present (2018-19 & present as chair).
• Social Media Coordinator, Department of English, Ohio University, 2017-present.
• Academic Advisor, Department of English, Ohio University, 2017-present.
• LGBT Director Search, committee member, Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, Ohio University, Spring 2019.
• Organizer, THATCamp Ohio 2018, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2018.  
• Faculty Director, LGBTQIA+ Scholars Academic Residence Community (ARC), UO, 2016-2017.
• Academic Advisor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UO, 2015-2017.
• Faculty Advisor, Drew Acorn Student Newspaper, Drew University, 2014-2015.
• Faculty Advisor, Drew Organization of Gaming student group, Drew University, 2013-2015.
• Academic Advisor, Department of English, Drew University, 2013-2015.
• UW Distinguished Teaching Award Committee Member, The Center for Teaching and Learning & Undergraduate Academic Affairs, UW, 2009-10, 2010-11 & 2011-12.
• Editorial Committee, e.g., the UW’s Online Journal of 100-Level Writing, Expository Writing Program, UW, Autumn 2007-2012.
• UNIV 100 Course Development Committee for Media Literacy Learning Community, Division of Letters and Sciences, UMD, Autumn 2004 & Spring 2005.
• Faculty Advisor, Reflections Student Literary Magazine, P.G. Community College, Landover, MD, 1994-1995.

 Community Engagement & Other Service

• Member, Community Advisory Committee for “Innovation” exhibit and museum redesign, Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), Seattle, WA, 2024-present.
• “Who Gets to Be the Hero?,” workshop on live-action role-playing for Camp Kiki, a week-long gaming and e-sports camp for 7^th-9^th graders sponsored by Niantic, Inc. and the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, June 30, 2022 & July 13, 2023.  
• Member, Curatorial Committee, Theater Off Jackson, Seattle, WA, 2019, 2020, 2021, & 2022.
• Discussion Lead, Winter Book Club: Kindred by Octavia Butler, Athens Public Library, Athens, OH, February 3, 10, & 17, 2022.
• Contributing Editor, Gamers with Glasses, 2020-present, http://www.gamerswithglasses.com.
• Mentor, Games for Our Future (GFOF) Game Jam, part of IndiCade Climate Jam, co-sponsored by EarthLab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, April 18-22, 2020.
• Jurist, James L. Tiptree Jr. Literary Award, James Tiptree Jr. Literary Council, San Francisco, CA, 2019-2020.
• Member, Community Advisory Committee for “Where Beauty Lies…” exhibition, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, WA, 2018-2019.
• Member, Community Advisory Committee for “Asian American Science Fiction” exhibition, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, WA, 2017-2018.
• Lead Organizer, Keywords for Video Game Studies Graduate Interest Group, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, 2010-11 & 2011-12 & 2012-13.
• Member, Community Advisory Committee for “#Iconic: Power and Pop Culture” exhibition, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, WA, 2012-2013.
• Officer & Executive Officer, QGrads, Faculty, and Staff, UW, Spring 2008-2012.
• Member, Community Advisory Committee for “Asian American Arcade” exhibition, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, WA, 2011-2012.
• Organizer, Queer + Public + Pedagogy Graduate Interest Group, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, 2010-11.
• Organizer, Queer + Public + Performance Working Group, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, 2009-10.
• Cover Design for Acts of Inquiry: A Guide to Reading, Research, and Writing at the University of Washington, Expository Writing Program, UW, 2010.
• Lead Organizer, Critial Gaming Project, UW, 2009-2013.
• Trainer, Safe Zone Project, Q Center, UW, Autumn 2008-2013.
• Officer & Executive Officer, QGrads, Faculty, and Staff, UW, Spring 2008-2011.
• Presenter, “Everyday Activities,” ENGL 111 Orientation, Expository Writing Program, UW, Summer 2008.
• Officer & Executive Officer, Graduate Student Organization, Department of English, UW, Autumn 2007-2012.  Member since 2005.
• Safe Zone Ally, Safe Zone Project, Q Center, UW, Spring 2007-2013.
• Cover Design for Situating Inquiry: An Introduction to Reading, Writing, and Research at the University of Washington, Expository Writing Program, UW, 2007.
• Co-Presenter, “Becoming Technoliterate,” Research Exposed!, Undergraduate Research Program, UW, Autumn 2007.
• Presenter, “First Day Experiences,” ENGL 131 Orientation, Expository Writing Program, UW, Summer 2007.
• Presenter, “Assignment Sequences,” ENGL 111 Orientation, Expository Writing Program, UW, Summer 2007.
• Moderator for Englist, a listserv for English Department graduate students, UW, 2006-2013.
• Moderator for CampusQ, a LGBT listserv for the Q Center, UW, 2006-2013.
• Co-Editor and Creator, B-13, English Graduate Literary Magazine, UW, Spring 2006-Spring 2007.
• Workshop Leader, ENGL 131 Orientation, Expository Writing Program, UW, Summer 2006.
• Presenter, “Who We Are Matters” Luncheon, TA Conference on Teaching and Learning, Center for Instructional Development and Research, 2006.
• Presenter, “Class Blogs,” Freshman Writing Program Professional Development Orientation, UMD, Autumn 2005.
• Member/Presenter, LGBT Speakers Bureau Program, UMD, 9/97-12/98, 9/02-6/05.
• Presenter, “Experienced Graduate Teaching Assistants Panel,” Graduate Teaching Assistants Orientation, Center for Teaching Excellence, UMD, Autumn 2004.
• Presenter, “Classroom Management,” Graduate Teaching Assistants Orientation, Center for Teaching Excellence, UMD, Autumn 2004.
• Member, Rainbow Terrapin Network, UMD, 2/03-6/05.
• Presenter, “Experienced Teaching Assistants Panel,” Freshman Writing Program Professional Development Orientation, UMD, Autumn 2003.
• Facilitator, Safe Space, LGBT Peer-Support Group, UMD, 9/97-12/98.
• Professional Development, “Supervising Youth Staff and Volunteers” Workshop, Compasspoint Nonprofit Services, SF, CA, 6/01.
• Instructor, Workshop 684: PageMaker for Newsletters, Compasspoint Nonprofit Services, SF, CA, 4/99-6/01.
• Freelance Desktop Publisher and Designer, 1991-present.

Reviewer:

• Journals                                                                                                            
  • Design & Culture                                                                        
  • Digital Humanities Quarterly                                                         
  • Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment        
  • Games and Culture                                                                       
  • Game Studies                                                                             
  • gamevironments                                                                           
  • International Journal of Role-Playing                                                 
  • ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
  • Journal of Visual Culture
  • Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
  • Kritika Kultura
  • Modern Fiction Studies
  • On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
  • Parallax
  • QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
  • ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories
  • Transformative Works and Cultures
  • Verge: Studies in Global Asias
• Publishers & Presses
  • Bloomsbury
  • McFarland
  • MIT Press
  • Punctum Books
  • Routledge
  • University of Michigan Press

Organizations & Memberships:

• Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2017-present.
• National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), 2017-present.
• The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society (OEB), 2017-present.
• Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association (PCA/ACA), 2012-present.
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2012-present.
• American Studies Association (ASA), 2011-present.
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2009-2010, 2018-2019.
• Modern Language Association (MLA), 2007-present.
• Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), 2004-present.