Contact & About the Instructor

     Instructor: Dr. Edmond Y. Chang
     Office: 331 Ellis Hall
     E-mail: change @ ohio.edu
     URL: http://www.edmondchang.com/

     AUTUMN 2023 OFFICE HOURS:
     TuTh 11 AM-12 PM or by appointment

     COURSES:
     ENG 2310: Speculative Fiction: "YA SF" | Autumn 2023
     ENG 7340: 20/21C American Literature: "Queer(ing) Realism(s)" | Autumn 2023

Edmond Y. Chang is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University in Athens, OH. His areas of interest include technoculture, race, gender, and sexuality, cultural studies, video game studies, 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, Drew University, and the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. He has taught classes on contemporary and ethnic American literature, speculative fiction of color, queer theory, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, technology and identity, video game studies, and even live-action role-playing games.

Recent publications include "Why Are the Digital Humanities So Straight?" in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities (Punctum 2021), "Drawing the Oankali: Imagining Race, Gender, and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler's Dawn” in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler (MLA 2019), "A Game Chooses, A Player Obeys: BioShock, Posthumanism, and the Limits of Queerness" in Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games (Indiana UP 2017), and "Queergaming" in Queer Game Studies (UMinnesota Press 2017). He is also part of Modern Language Association's Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities authoring the keyword entry "queer."

He is an Assistant Editor of Analog Game Studies and a Contributing Editor of Gamers With Glasses.

Other Courses Taught

For a list of other classes, see Dr. Chang's professional website or media and press about his teaching and pedagogy.

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