Hypatia Vourloumis

Hypatia Vourloumis is a performance theorist working across experimental writing, anticolonial, feminist, critical race theory, and queer studies; music, poetics, philosophies of language; sound studies and popular culture. She received her Ph.D in performance studies at New York University, conducted postdoctoral research at the Interweaving Performance Cultures Research Centre at Free University in Berlin (2012-14), and was a 2016 fellow at the Research Center for the Humanities in Athens. She is co-editor of the Performance Research journal On Institutions and has published in journals, art catalogues and edited volumes including Women & Performance, Ephemera, and Theatre Journal. She is the author, with Sandra Ruiz, of Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of this World (Minor Compositions, 2021), and currently working on Paralinguistic Insurgencies, a monograph on postcolonial Indonesian performance, and a book on minor contemporary Greek art entitled Bad Athena.