Natalie Kononenko

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. ISBN 978-0-8240-2673-8
• Kononenko, N. (1997) Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-0144-5
• Suwyn, B. (1997) The Magic Egg and Other Tales from Ukraine. Edited and with an introduction by N. Kononenko. Libraries Unlimited, Inc. ISBN 1-56308-425-2
• Kononenko, N. (2007) Slavic Folklore: A Handbook. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33610-2
• Holloway, P., & Kukharenko, S. (2012). The Paths of Folklore: Essays in Honor of Natalie Kononeko. ISBN 978-0893573935
• Kononenko, N. (2019). Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song: Folklore in Context. University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-1487502638
• Kononenko, N. (2023). Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity. ISBN 978-0228016816

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

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/