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About Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University

NBN Episodes hosted by Nataliya:

Eastern European Studies October 27, 2021

The Frontline

Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present

Serhii Plokhy

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Serhii Plokhy’s The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2021) includes discussions that focus on the major milestones of the history of Ukraine, ranging from …
Literary Studies August 13, 2021

Disharmony and Other Plays

Translated by George Mihaychuk

Volodymyr Vynnychenko

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Volodymyr Vynnychenko is one of the most ambiguous and controversial Ukrainian writers of the twentieth century. In an intricate and highly entangled way, his persona combines an artist and a …
Eastern European Studies August 13, 2021

Russian Energy Chains

The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union

Margarita M. Balmaceda

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Margarita Balmaceda’s Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union (Columbia University Press, 2021) is a meticulous exploration of a complex system of …
Literary Studies August 9, 2021

Kin

Translated by Russell Scott Valentino

Miljenko Jergovic

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Kin by Miljenko Jergović (Archipelago Books, 2021) is a family story that covers more than a century; it takes readers to various geographical places and introduces them to a kaleidoscope …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
Eastern European Studies 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 …