Contact & About the Instructor

     Instructor: Dr. Edmond Y. Chang
     Office: S205 Lindley Hall
     E-mail: change(at)ohio(dot)edu
     URL: http://www.edmondchang.com/

     AUTUMN 2018 OFFICE HOURS:
     Mondays/Wednesdays 1-2:30 PM or by appointment

     COURSES:
     ENG 2100: "Critical Approaches to Reading, Writing, & Playing Fantasy" | Autumn 2018
     ENG 2981T: "The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature" | Honors Tutorial | Autumn 2018
     ENG 3850: "Critical Approaches to Virtual Worlds, Video Games, and Ready Player One" | Autumn 2018

Edmond Y. Chang is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University in Athens, OH. His areas of interest include technoculture, gender and sexuality, cultural studies, video games, popular culture, and 20C/21C American literature. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and his dissertation is entitled Technoqueer: Re/con/figuring Posthuman Narratives. He has extensive teaching experience at the university level. His previous institutions include the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR, Drew University in Madison, NJ, and the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. He has taught classes on American literature, cyberpunk science fiction, Harry Potter, technology and identity, queer theory, video game studies, and even live-action role-playing games. Recent publications include "Queergaming" in Queer Game Studies, "A Game Chooses, A Player Obeys: BioShock, Posthumanism, and the Limits of Queerness" in Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games, and "Love is in the Air: Queer (Im)Possibility and Straightwashing in FrontierVille and World of Warcraft" in QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking. He is also part of MLA Books' forthcoming Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments authoring the keyword entry "queer." He is currently completing his first book tentatively entitled Queerness Cannot Be Designed: Digital Games and the Trouble with Technonormativity.

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