Sonya Merutka

M.A. '21

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Sonya Merutka is a New York-based writer and scholar. Their research explores queer weighted time and movement in contemporary performance art, dance, sound, and poetic practice. They are an editorial member of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory and the co-founder and organizer of Queer Theory Reading Group, a community-based education forum for critical queer studies.

Areas of concentration/study:

art and poetics, disability and animacy studies, queer and trans theory

Study Abroad Site(s):

Accent Center Rome, Italy; Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Education:

Whitney Independent Study Program

Helena Rubenstein Fellow in Critical Studies

New York, New York

 

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

MASTER OF ARTS - PERFORMANCE STUDIES

New York, New York

 

Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie und Gestaltung

Certificate - Photography, Design and Theory

Berlin, Germany       

 

University of California, Santa Cruz

Bachelor of Arts - Feminist Philosophy and Visual Culture

Santa Cruz, California

Awards & Distinctions

  • Helena Rubinstein Fellowship, Whitney Independent Study Program, 2022 
  • Performance Studies Emerging Scholar Award, NYU, 2021 
  • Leigh George Odom Memorial Award for Distinguished MA Student, NYU, 2021 
  • Performance Studies Focus Group Emerging Scholar, Association of Theater in Higher Education, 2021 
  • Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Scholarship, NYU, 2020 
  • Paulette Goddard Graduate Scholarship, NYU, 2020 
  • Lew Wasserman Graduate Scholarship, NYU, 2020 
  • Iris & Gerard Cantor Graduate Scholarship, NYU, 2020