Stephanie R. Dvareckas is a Ph.D. student in Art History at Rutgers University where she studies modern and contemporary art with a focus on Eastern and Central Europe. Stephanie is a Dodge Avenir Fellow at the Zimmerli Art Museum in the Department of Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art. There, she works with the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Stephanie holds an MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the Art Institute of Chicago (2019).
Stephanie presented “The Multidimensionality of Self in the Pandrogeny Project” at Northwestern University’s “In Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders” conference. She has also curated numerous exhibitions that examine the social and unconscious including: Vibrations: A Sound Experience, Deep in the Dream, Grounded, and #Viral. Stephanie co-organized Reminiscing/Reinventing, a symposium that instigated discourse surrounding aesthetics and nostalgia and their mediation through technological apparatuses.
Stephanie is a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship recipient through the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She studied language, culture, and literature at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University.