Research

Théo Evans is a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA with interests in digital culture, television, and queer theory. His current research examines the staging of behavioral experiments as entertainment from postwar television to contemporary digital culture, tracking the intersections between media constructions of authenticity and social scientific discourses of behavior. He previously studied at the University of Chicago, where he received his BA and MA in Sociology and minored in Media Arts and Design.

Research Interests
Digital cultural, reality-based media, television, queer theory, surveillance, neoliberalism, history of social science

Writing
“From Dupe to Accomplice: Repositioning Risk as Care in the Anti-Punitive Practical Jokes of Kitao Sakurai and Eric André’s Bad Trip (2021).” New Review of Film and Television Studies. Forthcoming.

“The Fuckboy as Entrepreneur: FBoy Island’s Neoliberal Intimacy.” Reality TV in the Social Media Economy, cluster in ASAP/J, August 27, 2024.