Natalie Kononenko is Professor and Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta. She is the author of Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing (1998) and Slavic Folklore: A Handbook (2007). Her interests include folk narrative, digital humanities, folklore and film, and Diasporic communities. She has conducted fieldwork in the Ukraine and Turkey as well as among the Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and Kazakhstan.