Edmond Y. Chang, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of English
- Affiliate Faculty of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)
- Affiliate Faculty of the Rhetoric and Composition Program in English
Areas of Expertise
- Video Games
- Video Game Studies
- Queer Games
- Race in Games
- Gender in Games
- Sexuality in Games
- Game Studies
- Media Studies
- Popular Culture
- Gender and Sexuality
- Queer Theory
- LGBTQ Studies
- Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Speculative Literature
- Literature
- 20th & 21st Century American Literature
- Race in Literature
- Gender in Literature
- Sexuality in Literature
- Digital Humanities
- Pedagogy
- Digital Rhetoric
Expert Bio
Dr. Edmond Y. Chang is an associate professor of English at 蜜柚视频. His areas of research include technoculture; race, gender, and sexuality; video games, analog games, LARP, queer game studies; feminist media studies; cultural studies; popular culture; and 20/21Century American literature. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on queer American literature, speculative literature of color, virtual worlds, games, everyday media, and writing.
Recent publications include 鈥淟ooking for Asianfuturism: Asian American Science Fiction and Digital Games鈥 in Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions, 鈥淲hy are the Digital Humanities So Straight?鈥 in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, 鈥淒rawing the Oankali: Imagining Race, Gender, and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler鈥檚 Dawn鈥 in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler, and 鈥淨ueergaming鈥 in Queer Game Studies.
In addition, Chang has two book-length projects:
- , co-authored with Timothy J. Welsh, Routledge, 2025.
- , edited by Suzanne Richardson, Play Story Press, 2025.
And edited the following issues:
- Special Issue on Queer Analog Game Studies, editor, , July 2025.
- Special Issue on Game Studies, co-editor with Ashlee Bird, , the official publication of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring 2024.
He is the creator of , a high fantasy tabletop RPG, and , a live-action role-playing game. He is also the Editor in Chief of and a Contributing Editor for .
Chang was also awarded the 2023 Chairs and Directors Emerging Leadership Award, a 2024 University Professor Award, and a 2025-26 Emerging Presidential Research Award.
Expertise at a Glance
Chang is an expert in technoculture; race, gender, and sexuality; video games, analog games, LARP, queer game studies; feminist media studies; cultural studies; popular culture; and 20/21Century American literature.
Media Placements
Multimedia