UPCOMING: Presenting at The Future of Writing 2026 “Adaptability,” February 20 & 21, 2026, USC & Online

In 2023, I attended the first Future of Writing symposium on “Interactivity.” This year’s conference is themed “Adaptability.” I will be presenting with my...

Happy Chinese New Year 2026! Happy Lunar New Year! Happy Year of the Fire Horse!

Happy Chinese New Year! Happy Lunar New Year! Happy Year of the Fire Horse! Here are some gathered predictions and guidance for the year:...

EVENT: “So Be It! See To It! A Conversation with Butler’s Biographers,” Feb. 24, 2026, 7:30 PM, Online

What: The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society, with the support of the Department of English at Georgia Southern, is hosting “So Be It! See...

NEW PUBLICATION: “Close Playing,” Teaching Game Studies, Teaching Media Dossier, JCMS

A new publication just dropped hot off the digital presses! My short “Close Playing” essay is part of the most recent Journal of Cinema...

Game Studies Holiday Gift Ideas

Holiday gift ideas for your #videogames #analoggames #ttrpg #dnd #gamestudies friends…

UPCOMING: “Reading Games, Playing Stories: A Book Talk with Edmond Y. Chang and Timothy J. Welsh,” December 2, 2024, 4 PM, OSC Presentation Space, University of Washington

In a week, I will be doing a “book talk” at the University of Washington for the Open Scholarship Commons and the Critical Gaming...

UPCOMING: “Race, Queerness, and Gaming While Asian,” Asian American Studies, Ohio State University, November 13, 2025

I have the great fortune of (finally) making it up to Ohio State University to do a talk for the Asian American Studies program....

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons

In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, I came across a call for submissions looking for academic and creative writing about Dungeons &...

2025 Conference on BIPOC Game Studies at The Strong National Museum of Play, September 12-14, 2025

Some of the Analog Game Studies editorial board is headed to Rochester, New York to attend the first ever Conference on BIPOC Game Studies...

PUBLICATION: “Rassismus & weiße Fankulturen,” Handbuch Gaming & Rechtsextremismus, July 2025

Back in November 2024, I did a keynote for Germany’s Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB) or the Federal Agency for Civic Education’s Masterclass Game...
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