Natalie Kononenko is a professor of folklore currently with the University of Alberta. Kononenko is a major contributor to the study of Ukrainian Blind Minstrels as well as in the area of witchcraft in Slavic cultures. She currently holds the Peter and Doris Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography and is the head of the Slavic and East European section of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. She attended Radcliffe College and Harvard University.
Publications
Books
Kononenko, N. (1990) The Turkish Minstrel Tale Tradition. Garland Publishing Inc. Kononenko, N. (1997) Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing. M.E. Sharpe. Suwyn, B. (1997) The Magic Egg and Other Tales from Ukraine. Edited and with an introduction by N. Kononenko. Libraries Unlimited, Inc. Kononenko, N. (2007) Slavic Folklore: A Handbook. Greenwood Press. Holloway, P., & Kukharenko, S. (2012). The Paths of Folklore: Essays in Honor of Natalie Kononeko. Kononenko, N. (2019). Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song: Folklore in Context. University of Toronto Press. Kononenko, N. (2023). Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity.
Journals and Periodicals
Natalie Kononenko; The Politics of innocence: Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation on Folklore topics. Journal of American Folklore 1 October 2011; 124 (494): 272–294. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.124.494.0272
See also
Blind musicians
Bandurist
Duma (epic) Ukrainian fairy tale History of Ukrainian Animation
References
External links
Natalie Kononenko: Instructor Page at University of Alberta
List of papers on Academia: https://ualberta.academia.edu/NatalieKononenko
Folklore Ukraine: https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/folkloreukraine/
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academic staff of the University of Alberta Radcliffe College alumni