Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed is a preceptor in Ukrainian at Harvard's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She holds a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures (Indiana University, 2022) and in American literature (Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2007). Her research interests include contested memory, with a focus on Ukraine and Russia. She is a review editor of H-Ukraine. Since 2016, she has been a host on the New Books Network (Ukrainian Studies, East European Studies, and Literary Studies channels).