# Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures (Ukrainian language program) ![ShpylovaSaeed_Nataliya](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/slavic/files/shpylovasaeed_nataliya.jpg?itok=pOyoSxa7) location\_on Barker Center 322, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [(617) 998-2488]() email [nataliya\_shpylova-saeed@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:nataliya_shpylova-saeed@fas.harvard.edu) Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed is interested in memory studies, particularly in contested memory focusing on Ukraine and Russia. Contested memory offers insights into identity construction and negotiation, ways to explore options for conflict resolution, venues to establish complex networks of freedom and resilience, guilt and responsibility, censorship and self-censorship, oppression and coercion, protest and resistance. Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed studies the formation, circulation, and repercussions of mnemonic contestations woven into the texture of cultural memory in Ukraine from the period of the Russian Empire through the Soviet Union into the present. Her work has been published in journals and newspapers, including *The Ukrainian Weekly*, *Euromaidan Press*, *Times Higher Education*, *Small War Journal*, *PolitArena*, and *Forum for Ukrainian Studies*. Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed is the author of *Russia’s Denial of Ukraine: Letters and Contested Memory* (Lexington Books Press, 2024). Her current research project “Russia’s Memory of the Past: The War Against Ukraine and the Forgotten Future” focuses on the intricate mnemonic matrix utilized by the Kremlin since the early 2000s to shape the collective memory in Russia that comfortably accepts the denial of Ukraine’s sovereignty and justifies the eradication of Ukraine and Ukrainian identity as Russia’s self-defense measure. Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed is an H-Ukraine review editor and host on the New Books Network (Ukrainian, East European, and Literary Studies channels). As a series editor, she works with Arrowsmith Press on an anthology of contemporary Crimean Tatar literature forthcoming in 2025. Before completing a Ph.D. in Slavic studies, she received a Ph.D. in American literature. She studied the works by Richard Brautigan and the dynamics of American postmodernism, its subversive artistic expressions, political attitudes, and ideological underpinnings. Education: Ph.D. 2022 Indiana University M.A. 2016 University of Maine Ph.D. 2007 Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine M.A. 2002 Bohdan Khmelnytsky State University (Ukraine) B.A. 2001 Bohdan Khmelnytsky State University (Ukraine) - ## People [Faculty](/people-taxonomy/faculty) [Ukrainian Studies Affiliates](/people/ukrainian-studies-affiliates)