Photograph of Chris Young in the Reading Room at UTM Library with games and technologies from the Syd Bolton Collection

I am a Librarian and Head, Collections and Digital Scholarship at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) Library. I coordinate collection development and management in Archives & Special Collections including the Syd Bolton Collection of video games, the Personal Computer Museum of computer games, and the EP Media Ltd. fonds of game journalism footage. 

I am researcher of game production cultures and history. My writing has appeared in New Media & SocietySocial Media + Society, and the edited volume Game Production Studies. I have co-edited special issues on digital game labour for Television & New Media and local digital game production for Media Industries

I am an instructor in the Department of English & Drama at UTM where I teach History of Video Games and Classic Games in the Game Studies Minor Degree Program.

I am also the Editor-In-Chief of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada | les Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada. The Papers | Cahiers publishes original double blind peer-reviewed research in the field of bibliography and the history of the book, a field encompassing not only printed works but also studies on authorship, digital humanities, copyright, reading, textual studies, scholarly editing, library history, historical bibliography, descriptive or analytic bibliography, communications studies, media history, and any literary or historical research that takes particular account of the material forms of texts.