The Paths of Folklore: Essays in Honor of Natalie Kononenko

Contributors

The Paths of Folklore: Essays in Honor of Natalie Kononenko. Svitlana Kukharenko and Peter Holloway, eds. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2012, 251–55.       Contributors Robert  Bohdan  Klymasz—In  addition  to  formal  degrees  from  the  University  of   Toronto  (B.A.,  major  in  Russian),  the  University  of  Manitoba  (M.A.,  major   in   Slavic   Studies),   and   Indiana   University   (Ph.D.,   major   in   Folklore),   Dr.   Klymasz   also   pursued   graduate   studies   at   Harvard   University,   Charles   University   (Prague,   Czechoslovakia),   and   Middlebury   College   (Vermont,   USA).  Over  a  period  of  50  years,  he  undertook  field  investigations  (in  USA   and  Canada),  delivered  university  courses  (Manitoba,  Ottawa,  Alberta,  Me-­‐‑ morial,  Harvard,  University  of  California,  Los  Angeles),  worked  as  a  cur-­‐‑ ator  at  the  Canadian  Museum  of  Civilization,  and  published  books,  articles,   and  reviews.  Widely  cited  for  his  investigations  into  Ukrainian  folklore  in   Canada,   Dr.   Klymasz   has   received   awards   from   his   peers   in   Canada   and   Ukraine.  He  currently  works  as  an  instructor,  researcher,  and  consultant  at   the  University  of  Manitoba’s  Centre  for  Ukrainian  Canadian  Studies.     Bohdan   Medwidsky   obtained   his   Ph.D.   from   the   University   of   Toronto,   and   after   holding   teaching   positions   at   the   University   of   Toronto   and   Carlton   University,  he  moved  to  the  University  of  Alberta  in  Edmonton,  Canada  in   1971.   He   held   the   position   of   Assistant   Professor   in   the   Department   of   Slavic   and   East   European   Studies   and   was   promoted   to   Full   Professor   in   1991.   He   became   Professor   Emeritus   when   he   retired   in   2002   and   is   still   extremely   active   in   university   affairs.   He   initiated   the   Ukrainian   Folklore   Program  at  the  University  of  Alberta  by  teaching  his  first  folklore  class  in   1977.  That  same  year  he  also  founded  the  Ukrainian  Folklore  Archives  that   have   borne   his   name   since   2003   and   have   become   a   large   multimedia   repository  of  resources  on  Ukrainian  culture.  The  archives  are  part  of  the   Peter  and  Doris  Kule  Centre  for  Ukrainian  and  Canadian  Folklore,  which   came   into   being   in   2001.   Medwidsky’s   main   spheres   of   interest   are   oral   folklore   and   customary   traditions,   Ukrainian-­‐‑Canadian   folklore,   material   culture,   history   of   Ukrainian   folklore,   Ukrainian   literature,   and   Slavic   linguistics.     Oleksandra  Britsyna—Doctor  of  Philosophy,  Senior  Researcher  in  the  Depart-­‐‑ ment  of  Folkloristics  at  the  M.  T.  Rylsky  Institute  of  Art,  Folklore  Studies,   and  Ethnology  (Kyiv,  Ukraine).  Served  as  a  vice-­‐‑director  of  the  institute  in   1992–97.   Her   main   fields   of   interest   are   prose   folk   narratives,   textology,   performance  studies,  field  studies,  and  folklore  theory.  Her  major  publica-­‐‑ tions   include   Ukrains’ka   narodna   sotsial’no-­‐‑pobutova   kazka   (spetsyfika   ta   funk-­‐‑ 252 CONTRIBUTORS tsionuvannia,   1989;   Ukrains’ka   usna   tradytsiina   proza:   Pytannia   tekstolohii   ta   vykonavstva,  2006;  and  Prozovyi  fol’klor  sela  Ploske  na  Chernihivshchyni  (with   Inna  Golovakha),  2004.  Britsyna  is  a  member  of  the  Folklore  Commission  of   the   International   Society   of   Slavists   (since   1993)   and   of   the   International   Society  for  Folk  Narrative  Research  (since  1995).     Andrij  Hornjatkevyč—A  native  of  Ukraine,  he  studied  the  bandura  with  Volo-­‐‑ dymyr  Yurkevych  and  Zinoviy  Shtokalko  in  the  USA.  Later,  while  living  in   Canada,  Hornjatkevyč  edited  and  published  the  latter’s  A  Kobzar  Handbook   (in   both   English   and   Ukrainian)   and   Kobza,   a   collection   of   his   musical   scores.   He   has   performed   as   a   bandurist   in   Canada,   USA,   Ukraine,   and   Germany;  he  has  either  taught  the  instrument  or  given  lectures  about  it  in   those   countries.   In   1972,   Hornjatkevyč   obtained   a   doctorate   in   Slavic   lan-­‐‑ guages  and  literatures  from  the  University  of  California  in  Berkeley,  and  he   worked  in  those  fields  at  the  University  of  Alberta  until  his  retirement  in   2003.     Inna  Golovakha-­‐‑Hicks—Doctor  of  Philosophy,  a  Researcher  in  the  Department   of   Folkloristics   at   the   M.   T.   Rylsky   Institute   of   Art,   Folklore   Studies,   and   Ethnology  (Kyiv,  Ukraine).  Her  areas  of  interest  include  folk  demonology,   graffiti,  performance,  and  contemporary  folk  theories.  Golovakha-­‐‑Hicks  is   the  author  of  numerous  publications,  among  which  are  “Postfolklore”  (in   Folklore:   An   Encyclopedia   of   Beliefs,   Customs,   Tales,   Music,   and   Art,   vol.   3:   1015–1018   [2010]);   “The   Life   of   Traditional   Demonological   Legends   in   Contemporary   Urban   Ukrainian   Communities”   (Folklore:   Electronic   Journal   of   Folklore   40:   37–44   [2008]);   and   Prozovyi   fol’klor   sela   Ploske   na   Chernihiv-­‐‑ shchyni  (with  Oleksandra  Britsyna)  (2004).  Currently  she  is  working  on  her   book  American  Folk  Studies  of  the  Late  Twentieth  Century,  which  would  intro-­‐‑ duce  American  contemporary  approaches  in  folkloristics  to  Slavic  scholars.     Svitlana  Kukharenko  is  a  Joint  Postdoctoral  Fellow  (Department  of  German  and   Slavic  Studies  and  Centre  for  Ukrainian  Canadian  Studies)  at  the  University   of  Manitoba.  She  completed  her  Ph.D.  in  2010  in  the  Department  of  Modern   Languages  and  Cultural  Studies  of  the  University  of  Alberta,  Canada  with  a   dissertation  entitled  “Abnormal  Death...