Ashley Chang is a Doctor of Fine Arts Candidate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where she examines the intersections of theater, performance, and ecology in scholarly criticism and artistic practice from the 1990s to the present. She received her Bachelor of Arts with honors in English and Philosophy from Stanford University in 2013. As a Master of Fine Arts student at Yale, she pursued a Concentration in Theater Management, and her areas of comprehensive study included ancient Greek drama and ecological theater and performance. She has presented her research at Modern Language Association (MLA), American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR), and the Beyond Humanism Conference Series, as well as at graduate student conferences at Yale University and the Graduate Center at CUNY. She is also a co-convener of the Ecology & Performance Working Group at the ASTR/TLA Annual Conference. She is the recipient of two Mark Blankenship Fellowships and a Writing Fellowship from David Geffen School of Drama; a Digital Humanities Lab Seed Grant from Yale University; and a grant to attend the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. She has served as a Lecturer in the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Purchase College, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Theater Arts at University of New Haven, and a teaching fellow at Yale College and David Geffen School of Drama. Following appointments as Artistic Associate at Page 73, Literary Associate at Yale Repertory Theatre, Co-Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret's 49th season, and Managing Editor of the Yale Theater Management Knowledge Base, she is now Dramaturg at Playwrights Horizons.
Research interests include ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, literary theory and critical methods, science studies and the history of science, interdisciplinarity and disciplinary formation, and contemporary theater and performance.