Natalie KONONENKO (1946) Folklorist and ethnographer. Degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1976. Employment: University of Virginia, USA, Asst. Prof. (1974 -80); Assoc. Prof. (1980-98); Prof. (1998-2004), Asst. Dean (1975-1979) Slavic Languages and Literatures Dept. Head (1993-96), University of Alberta, Canada, Professor and Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography (2004-2019). Retired 2019: professor emerita. Areas of specialization: Ukraine, Canada, Kazakhstan, Turkey; epic poetry, performance studies, immigration studies, narrative studies, vernacular religion. Participation in International Congresses of Slavists: Ohrid 2008, Minsk 2013, Belgrade 2018. Fieldwork: Ukraine: 1987-2013, Kazakhstan: 2011; Canada 2008-2019: Turkey: 1972-1976
Publications (books): Ukrainian Dumy and Historical Songs: Folklore in Context, Univ. of Toronto Press, 2019; winner Barbara Heldt best translation award, Association of Women in Slavic Studies. Slavic Folklore: A Handbook. Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2007. Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing. Armonk, New York and London, England: M.E. Sharpe, 1998; winner Kovaliv and American Association for Ukrainian Studies best book prizes. The Turkish Minstrel Tale Tradition., New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1990. Folklore collections: The Magic Egg and Other Tales from Ukraine, Libraries Unlimited, 1997. Ukrainian Dumy. Toronto and Cambridge: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies/Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1979. Journal articles and book chapters (last two years only): “Громадське життя церков: п'єси на фольклорні теми в Канадських преріях,” Народна творчість на етнологія, 2019, No. 2, pp. 28-40. “Vernacular Religion on the Prairies: Negotiating a Place for the Unquiet Dead,” Canadian Slavonic Papers. Vol. 60, issue 1-2 (2018), pp. 108-35. “Children of Stone: Performing Self-Memorialization.” Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings: Heavenly Acts, ed. by Andrey Rosowsky. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018, pp. 29-53. “From Ukrainian Studies to the Folklore of the Prairies: The Kule Center for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore,” Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Zumwalt, eds. History of North American Folkloristics. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2020. “Ukrainian Etiquette and Taboos,” Etiquette and Taboos around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Customs. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara CA; “Manners and Customs: Ukraine.” Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe, ed. by Joep Leerssen, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, Vol. II, pp. 1454-55. http://romanticnationalism.net/viewer.p/21//object/122-160416. Editorships and Editorial board memberships: Editor, Folklorica, Journal of the Slavic and East European Folklore Assoc. (2006-12). Editorial board: Slavic and East European Journal, East/West Journal; Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia, A Journal in Translation, Journal of Eurasian Studies;Народна творчість та етнологія
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http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/folkloreukraine/
http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/UkraineAudio/
http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/KazakhstanAudio/
http://livingcultures.ualberta.ca/ShkolaZhyva/
http://ukrainealive.ualberta.ca