Iuliia Bentia holds a PhD in Art Studies; is a Senior Research Fellow at the Modern Art Research Institute, the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine; and Executive Editor at Krytyka journal. She is a member of the expert group of the Ukrainian Theater Festival and Award GRA. In 2022, she was awarded a non-resident scholarship for Ukrainian scholars, cultural figures, and public intellectuals from the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna, Austria) and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (United States) to implement the special topic Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Krytyka website (krytyka.com). She is a co-editor of the essay project "War is... Ukrainian Writers on Living through Catastrophe", which Krytyka published in 2023 with the support of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE).