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About Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed is a PhD student in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures.

NBN Episodes hosted by Nataliya:

Literature June 9, 2021

Lilacs in the Dust Bowl

Diana Stevan

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl (Peregrin Publishing, 2021),  an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during …
Eastern European Studies May 27, 2021

From "the Ukraine" to Ukraine

A Contemporary History of 1991-2021

Georgiy Kasianov, Matthew Rojansky, and Mykhailo Minakov

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
In 2021, Ukraine celebrates its thirty-year independence anniversary. During this relatively short period of time—when considered in historical terms—Ukraine underwent a number of drastic changes that have so far shaped …
Literary Studies May 5, 2021

Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul

Mykola (Nik) Bazhan's Early Experimental Poetry

Mykola Bazhan

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry (Academic Studies Press, 2020) presents a collection of early works by Mykola Bazhan, one of the most enigmatic …
Literary Studies April 26, 2021

The Orphanage

A Novel

Serhiy Zhadan

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
The Ukrainian literary scene today is particularly vibrant. The voice of Serhiy Zhadan is distinct, well-known, and easily-recognizable. In 2021, Yale University Press published his novel titled The Orphanage (Yale …
Eastern European Studies April 14, 2021

Survival As Victory

Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

Oksana Kis

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Oksana Kis’s Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Press, 2021) fundamentally contributes to the Gulag studies through its essential intervention …
Eastern European Studies March 18, 2021

The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe

Marina Zaloznaya

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Using a mix of ethnographic, survey, and comparative historical methodologies, Marina Zaloznaya's The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe (Cambridge UP, 2017) offers an unprecedented insight into the corruption …
Eastern European Studies March 5, 2021

Normalizing Corruption

Failures of Accountability in Ukraine

Erik S. Herron

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Erik S. Herron’s Normalizing Corruption: Failures of Accountability in Ukraine (University of Michigan Press, 2020) zeroes in on the mechanisms that sustain corruption and minimize accountability: aspects that play a …
Eastern European Studies January 12, 2021

Ukraine

What Everyone Needs to Know

Serhy Yekelchyk

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
In 2020, Oxford University Press published a second edition of Serhy Yekelchyk’s Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford UP, 2020). This series is based on the reference format that …
Eastern European Studies January 8, 2021

Making Ukraine Soviet

Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin

Olena Palko

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Olena Palko’s Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic Press 2020) offers an intriguing investigation that zeroes in on the intersection of history and …
Literary Studies January 8, 2021

Radical Animism

Reading for the End of the World

Jemma Deer

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Jemma Deer’s Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020) invites the reader to take a moment and to ponder on the way of reading …
Literary Studies December 30, 2020

Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930

Contested Memory

Myroslav Shkandrij

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Myroslav Shkandrij’s Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory (Academic Studies Press, 2019) offers an insight into the development of the Ukrainian avant-garde, a topic which still remains unjustifiably understudied …
Eastern European Studies December 3, 2020

Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes

Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn

Alessandro Achilli, Serhy Yekelchyk and Dmytro Yesypenko

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in honor of Marko Pavlyshyn (Academic Studies Press, 2020) is an impressive volume of essays on a variety of topics and issues …
Russian and Eurasian Studies December 2, 2020

Conspiracy Culture

Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination

Keith A. Livers

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Conspiracy theories prove to be popular and widely-spread. As a rule, we do not tend to take them seriously, but it would be wrong to suggest that audiences are not …
Eastern European Studies November 19, 2020

War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

Tatiana Zhurzhenko

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) analyzes the shaping of the commemorative space in the three post-Soviet countries that used to share commemorative practices and …
Literary Studies November 12, 2020

Writing Across the Color Line

U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920

Lucas A. Dietrich

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
In Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), Lucas A. Dietrich investigates how ethnic literatures took shape …
Literary Studies November 10, 2020

Extraterritorial

A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction

Matthew Hart

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2020) explores how texts—literary and visual—help us engage with the space that goes beyond the limits of visible geographical borders …
Literary Studies October 19, 2020

Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century

Consuming Commemoration

Katherine Grenier and Amanda Mushal

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century: Consuming Commemoration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) explores commemorative practices as they developed in the nineteenth century. The editors of the volume, Katherine Grenier and …
Eastern European Studies October 19, 2020

Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict

The Case of Ukraine

Hanna Shelest and Maryna Rabinovych

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
The articles presented in Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict: The Case of Ukraine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) aim to explore the current political and administrative challenges that Ukraine is facing. The …
General History October 16, 2020

The Burden of the Past

History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

Anna Wylegała and Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine (Indiana UP, 2020), edited by Anna Wylegała and Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, (Indiana University Press, 2020) is an important contribution …
Literary Studies September 16, 2020

World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time

Filippo Menozzi

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
In World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time (Palgrave Macmillan) Filippo Menozzi offers to look at literature and literary processes through the prism of non-synchronism. The book details the …
Eastern European Studies September 2, 2020

Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian

Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics

Marco Puleri

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Marco Puleri’s Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics (Peter Lang, 2020) examines a complex process of identity formation in the context of exposure …
Literary Studies July 24, 2020

Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity

Ari Linden

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
In Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity (Northwestern University Press, 2020), Ari Linden analyzes Karl Kraus’s oeuvre while engaging in the conversation about modernism and modernity, which is shaped …
Eastern European Studies June 17, 2020

Ukraine and Russia

From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War

Paul D’Anieri

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Paul D’Anieri’s Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War (Cambridge University Press, 2019) documents in a nuanced way the development of the current military conflict between Russia and …
General History June 5, 2020

The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine

An Anatomy of the Holodomor

Stanislav Kulchytsky

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Stanislav Kulchytsky’s The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor (CIUS Press, 2018) presents a meticulous research that unveils the mechanism of the Holodomor as a man-made …