Dr. Evelyn Wan is Assistant Professor in Media, Arts, and Society at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She is the Programme Coordinator for MA Arts and Society, and works on interdisciplinary curriculum innovation in the domain of Humane AI.

In the last 15 years, Wan has worked on theatre projects with asylum seeker youths and has collaborated with various international artists in staging contemporary dance, physical theatre, and site-specific performances as both performer and dramaturg. Her current performance practice uses artistic research methods that intersect technology, colonial and inter-Asian ocean histories, mythology, and spirituality. She is a founding member of the artist collective If Time’s Limited in Hong Kong, and has received funding from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Hong Kong Arts Centre for various performing arts projects. In the Netherlands, she is part of the Holistic Technology Salon, a network of artists, scholars, and curators at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam).

Wan graduated cum laude from her PhD programme and was awarded a prestigious national dissertation prize by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation in the Netherlands in 2019. Her research weaves alternative genealogies between historical technological inventions and contemporary emerging technology, through the lens of decolonial media studies and performance studies. Her writings have appeared in International Journal of Communication, GPS: Global Performance Studies, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, and Theatre Journal, amongst others.

Wan currently serves on the Executive Board of Performance Studies international (PSi). She founded and led the Future Advisory Board, an emerging scholar initiative in the organisation, between 2014-2019. She also serves on the Supervisory Board of TETEM, a maker lab and exhibition space for art, technology, and society in Enschede, the Netherlands.

Employment:

  • Assistant Professor in Media, Arts, and Society at Utrecht University (2021-present); Programme Coordinator of MA Arts & Society (2022-present)
  • Lecturer at Utrecht University (2020-2021)
  • Postdoctoral researcher at TILT (Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society) on an ERC-funded project on data protection and information-induced harms (2018-2020)

Education:

  • PhD, cum laude (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) (2018)
  • Research MA in Media and Performance Studies, cum laude (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands), with Contemporary Performance Practice (Erasmus exchange at University of Kent, Canterbury) (2014)
  • MA in Gender Studies, cum laude (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) (2011)
  • BSocSci in Government and Laws, First Class Honours (The University of Hong Kong) (2010)

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