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. 
 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