Latest Writings:

My colleagues put together a volume on methods, entitled Performance Research Methods: Interdisciplinary Methods for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies (2025, Open Access)

Download my chapter on “Tracing Histories: An Archaeological Approach”

“Mining for Digital Culture: Dispossessed lives through the lens of art” (2026), Chapter for The SAGE Handbook for Digital Labour, edited by Ergin Bulut, Julie Yujie Chen, Rafael Grohmann and Kylie Jarrett

PhD Dissertation
Clocked!: Time and Biopower in the Age of Algorithms

Guest editing: Special Issues and Sections

[Co-authored] Cervera et al. (2019). Future Now. GPS – Global Performance Studies, 2 (2).

[Co-authored] Cervera et al. (2018). Syllabi for the Future: A Playlist. GPS – Global Performance Studies, 1 (2).

Peer-reviewed chapters and articles

[co-authored] Dela Cruz et al. (2024). Everywhere, All the Time, 3:42: Collaborative Encounters with the Mundane. Performance Research, 28(4). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13528165.2023.2303704

Wan, Evelyn (2024). Cultural Genitals and the Emancipated Fembot: Performing Gender, Race, and Technology in Cyborg Theatre. In Sean Metzger & Roberta Mock (eds.), The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre. London: Bloomsbury.

Wan, Evelyn (2023). The Left-hand Click and the Left-hand Lay: Intersecting Technology and Folk Belief in Posthuman Spirituality. In Grant Hamilton & Carolyn Lau (eds.), Mapping the Posthuman. New York: Routledge.

Wan, Evelyn (2021). “I’m like a wise little person”: Notes on the metal performance of woebot the mental health chatbot. Theatre Journal, 73(3), E21-E30. https://doi.org/10.1353/TJ.2021.0068

Wan, Evelyn (2021). Laboring in Electronic and Digital Waste Infrastructures: Colonial Temporalities of Violence in Asia. International Journal of Communication, 15, 2631-2651.

Wan, E., de Groot, A., Klumbyte, G., Lücking, P., Lämmerhirt, D., Păun, M., & Jameson, S. (2020). Lost in translation: an interactive workshop mapping interdisciplinary translations for epistemic justice. In Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT* ’20), January 27–30, 2020, Barcelona, Spain (pp. 692). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3375685

Wan, Evelyn (2019). Labour, mining, dispossession: on the performance of earth and the necropolitics of digital culture. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Special Issue on Reterritorializing Digital Performance from South to North, 15(3).

Wan, Evelyn (2019). Counting Down on the Train to 2046 in West Kowloon: A deep map of Hong Kong’s spectral temporalities. Hong Kong Studies.

Wan, Evelyn (2019). Docile Subjects: From theatres of automata to the machinery of 21st-century media. In Peter Eckersall & Helen Grehan (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics. New York: Routledge.

Wan, Evelyn (2018). An Encounter with Lufsig: Political Affect Meets the Nomadic Post-colonial Subject. In Rosi Braidotti, Kin Yuen Wong & Amy Kit-Sze Chan (Eds.), Deleuze and the Humanities: East and West (pp. 59-78). London: Rowman & Littlefield International.

[Co-authored] Cervera et al. (2017). Thicker States. GPS – Global Performance Studies, 1(1).

Wan, Evelyn (2015). From Her (2013) to Viv the Global Brain: Becoming Material, Unfolding Experience through Radical Empiricism and Process Philosophy. Digital Culture & Society, 1(1), pp. 165-185.