FORTHCOMING: Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide (Routledge 2025) by Edmond Y. Chang and Timothy J. Welsh

It seems that the book that my friend and colleague Timothy Welsh and I wrote late last summer has a publication date! This entry...

Role-Playing the Humanities, University of Cincinnati, March 31-April 1, 2025

I am excited to attend “Role-Playing the Humanities,” a two-day symposium at the Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. The event brings...

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...

LOSTFOUND Wins Golden Cobra Award!

This is my second year participating in the Golden Cobra Challenge, “a friendly contest open to anyone interested in writing and playing freeform larp.”...

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...
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