Staff

Natalie KONONENKO

Professor: Ukrainian Folklore

BA (Radcliffe College, 1967) Slavic Languages and Literatures
MA (Harvard University, 1969) Slavic Languages and Literatures
PhD (Harvard University, 1976) Slavic and Turkic Folklore

Office: 441-C Arts Building
Telephone: 780-492-6810
Fax: c/o 780-492-9106
E-mail: natalie.kononenko@ualberta.ca
Web Site: www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/

Principal Teaching Areas: Folklore, Ethnography, Performance Studies, Narrative, Ritual

Research Areas: Ukrainian minstrelsy, Ritual and Ritual Theory, Folktales and Legends

Selected Publications:
Slavic Folklore Handbook, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2007.

“Folk Orthodoxy: Popular Religion in Contemporary Ukraine,” in Letters from Heaven, Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine, ed. by John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk, Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2006, pp.
46-75.

“Go I Know not Where; Bring Back I Know not What: Fifty Years of Slavic Folklore in North America,” Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 50, No.1, Spring 2006, pp. 159-171.

“Goddess Figures in Ukrainian Folk Art,” The Tree of Life, The Sun, The Goddess: Symbolic Motifs in Ukrainian Folk Art (Exhibition catalogue, ed. by Lubow Wolynetz), Ukrainian Museum, New York, 2005, pp. 54-71.

Encyclopedia entry on Ukrainian Folklore for the Encyclopedia of World Folklore, Edited by William M. Clements, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, Vol. 3, Europe, 2006, pp. 437-449.

"Using Digital Technology in the Field: Report on Folklore Research in Ukraine," co-authored with Peter Holloway, Folklorica, Vol. X, No. 2 (Fall, 2005), pp. 62-70.

"Karaoke Ivan Kupalo: Ritual in Post-Soviet Ukraine," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 48, No. 2, Summer 2004, pp. 177-202.

"The Teaching Portfolio," NewsNet, Vol. 44, No. 5 (October, 2004), pp. 11-13.

"Teaching Folklore," NewsNet, Vol. 42, No. 4 (September, 2002), pp. 27-31.

"Living in the Virtual Material World," with Peter W. Holloway, Slavic and East European Folklore Journal, Vol. VII, No. 2 (Fall 2002), pp. 78-88.

Preface to From Chantre to Diak: Cantorial Traditions in Canada, ed. by Robert B. Klymasz, Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2000, pp. 5-13.

Other:
Peter and Doris Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
Winner of Kovaliv and American Association book prizes for Ukrainian Studies.
Editor of Folklorica, Journal of the Slavic and East European Folklore Association.
Head, Slavic and East European section of MLCS.