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.
Kononenko is notable because she is a multi-published academic engaged in active non-trivial research.
Publications
- Kononenko, N. (1997) Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-0144-5
- Kononenko, N. (1990) The Turkish Minstrel Tale Tradition. Garland Publishing Inc. ISBN 978-0-8240-2673-8
- Kononenko, N. (2007) Slavic Folklore: A Handbook. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33610-2