September 2018
Dr. habil., General Linguistics and Theory of Translation, Kyiv National University, Ukraine

March 2008
Ph.D., Social Theory, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

June 2003
M.A. (Hons), Second Language Pedagogy (English, German) and World Literature, Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
 

January 2022–present  
Professor, Department of Translation and Slavic Studies, Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University 

September 2019–December 2021  
Professor, Department of Translation, Kherson National Technical University

September 2009–August 2019  
Associate Professor, Department of Translation, Kherson National Technical University

September 2008–August 2009 
Assistant Professor, Department of Translation, Kherson National Technical University

September 2003–August 2008  
Lecturer in English, Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University 
 

• Ukrainian (native)
• Russian (native)
• English (C2)
• German (A2)
• Spanish (A1)

Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) (since 2021)

February–May 2026
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA)

June 2024
University of Greifswald (Germany), Staff Mobility for Training within Erasmus+ 

November 2023–July 2024  
Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (Sofia, Bulgaria)

October 2023
School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS/CERCEC) (Paris, France)

October 2022–May 2023  
Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) (Delmenhorst, Germany)

May 2022–September 2022
Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study (Greifswald, Germany)

August–September 2013  
University of Cambridge, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Cambridge, UK)

September–December 2009
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Kennan Institute (Washington, DC, USA

September 2024–December 2025  
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway), “Multilingual Teaching Materials” www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/research/projects/hugin-munin/index.html 

July 2017–December 2020  
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) “Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies” www.meits.org/ 

Kudriavtseva, Natalia, and Debra A. Friedman, eds. Language and Power in Ukraine and Kazakhstan: Essays on Education, Ideology, Literature, Practice, and the Media. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2024. 

Kudriavtseva, Natalia. English Sentence: Structure and Translation. Kryvyi Rih: Kryvyi Rih U Press, 2022.

Kudriavtseva, Natalia. Linhvistychna vidnosnist i problemy perekladu filosofskoi terminolohii [Linguistic relativity and the problems of translating philosophic terms]. Kyiv: Dmytro Buraho Publishers, 2017. 

Kudriavtseva, Natalia. “Research on Language in Wartime: A Critical Ethnographic Sociolinguistic Approach.” Post-Soviet Affairs 42, no. 2 (2026): 140–149. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2025.2562874  

Kudriavtseva, Natalia. “Ukraine’s Wartime Classrooms: Shifting Ideologies of Bilingualism.” Sociolinguistic Studies 19, no. 3–4 (2025): 283–303. https://doi.org/10.3138/SS-19-3-4-0003 

Kudriavtseva, Natalia. “‘Safe Spaces’ amidst War: Ideologies in Ukraine’s Language Volunteering.” Heritage Language Journal 23, no. 2 (2025): 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10042 

Soroka, Yuliia, Natalia Kudriavtseva, and Igor Danylenko. “Language and Social Inequalities in Ukraine: Monolingual and Bilingual Practices. Ideology and Politics Journal 2, no. 24 (2023): 58–85. https://doi.org/10.36169/2227-6068.2023.02.00003 

Kudriavtseva, Natalia, and Debra A. Friedman. “Critical Perspectives on Language and Power in Ukraine and Kazakhstan: An Introduction.” Ideology and Politics Journal 2, no. 24 (2023): 3–11.

Kudriavtseva, Natalia. “Standard Ukrainian in the Multilingual Context: Language Ideologies and Current Educational Practices.” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 42, no. 2 (2021): 156–164. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1715990
 
Kudriavtseva, Natalia. “Reconfiguring Identities within the Cityscape: Ideologies of Decommunization Renaming in Ukraine.” Ideology and Politics Journal 1, no. 15 (2020): 63–82. https://doi.org/10.36169/2227-6068.2020.01.00004 
 
Kudriavtseva, Natalia, and Mykola Homanyuk. “Contested Names in the Toponymic Landscapes of Post-Soviet Space: Introduction.” Ideology and Politics Journal 1, no. 15 (2020): 4–10. https://doi.org/10.36169/2227-6068.2020.01.00001 

Kudriavtseva, Natalia. “Between ‘Ideal’ and ‘Living’ Language: Ideologies of the Ukrainian Language Revival in Independent Ukraine.” In Living the Independence Dream: Ukraine and Ukrainians in Contemporary Socio-Political Context, ed. Lada Kolomiyets, 87–109. Malaga: Vernon Press, 2024.

Kudriavtseva, Natalia. “Ukrainian Language Revitalization Online: Targeting Ukraine’s Russian Speakers.” In Teaching and Learning Resources for Endangered Languages, ed. Riitta Valijärvi and Lily Kahn (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2023), pp. 203–223.

“Sprache im Krieg: Hinwendung zum Ukrainischen.” Forum: Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, April 2026.

“Reclaiming Surzhyk – Ukraine’s Linguistic Decolonization.” E-International Relations, 18 March 2024 (with Olga Maxwell and Iryna Skubii)

“Motivations for Embracing the Ukrainian Language in Wartime Ukraine.” Ukrainian Analytical Digest, September 2023.

“Fierce Resistance in Kherson Disrupts the Russian ‘Liberation’ Scenario.” Kennan Focus Ukraine, 25 May 2022.

“Rollout of the 2019 Language Law: Grassroot Efforts Advance while Parliament Dithers.” Kennan Focus Ukraine, 23 July 2021.

“Ukraine’s Russian-Language Secondary Schools Switch to Ukrainian-Language Instruction: A Challenge?” Forum for Ukrainian Studies, 1 August 2020.

“Ukraine’s Language Law: Whose Rights are Protected?” Kennan Focus Ukraine, 8 July 2019.

“Ukraine’s Language Agenda: When Aspiration Meets Practice.” Kennan Focus Ukraine, 23 April 2018.

“Ukraine: What’s a Language for?” Kennan Cable, 16 March 2016.

“New Speakers, New Identities: Ideologies of Conversion in Wartime Ukraine.” Guest lecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, 22 April 2026.

“New Speakers of Ukrainian: Ideologies of Linguistic Conversion.” Guest lecture within PhD course “Researching Multilingualism in Education” (UV9365), University of Oslo, Norway, 26–28 January 2026.

“Grassroots Ukrainianisation: Language Popularisation Initiatives in Ukraine since 2014” Public guest lecture in the series “Understanding Ukraine,” Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 13 April 2023.

“Turbulent Classrooms: Switching to Ukrainian from Russian in Wartime” Online guest lecture in the series “LinguEASTics,” University of Greifswald, European University Viadrina, University of Rostock, Germany, 31 January 2023.

“Living under, with and against Occupation: Experiences and Strategies of Accommodation in War-time Ukraine from the Russian Annexation of Crimea until Today (2014–22).” Presentation in round-table discussion, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany, 4 July 2022.

“Ukraine Lives: Lived Experience and Academic Solidarity.” Presentation in public panel discussion, Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study, Greifswald, Germany, 7 June 2022.

“Thirty Years of the Ukrainian Language Revival: Challenges and Prospects.” Guest lecture in virtual lecture series on Ukraine, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, 5 November 2021.

“The Current Language Reform in Ukraine.” Guest lecture within the German initiative “Ukraine Calling,” Kyiv, Ukraine, 15 June 2019.
“Languages in Conflict and Reconciliation.” Intervention at the international conference, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, 25 January 2019.

“Engaging Multilinguality: Language, Identity and National Cohesion in Ukraine.” Invited talk at the international conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 19 October 2018.

Interview with Dr. Manuel Ferez, “Ideologías del lenguaje y la identidad en la Ucrania de tiempos de Guerra,” 2026 (in Spanish). https://manuelferez.com/ideologias-del-lenguaje-y-la-identidad-en-la-ucrania-de-tiempos-de-guerra-entrevista-a-natalia-kudriavtseva/ 

The Secret Life of Language podcast, episode 11, “The Politics of Language in Wartime Ukraine,” University of Melbourne (with Olga Maxwell and Iryna Skubii), 2024. https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-languages-and-linguistics/news/the-secret-life-of-language/episodes/episode-11-the-politics-of-language-in-wartime-ukraine 

Interview with ORF.at, “Ukrainisch als „geistige Waffe“”, 2023 (in German). https://orf.at/stories/3330898/

Interview with Prof. Marko Pavlyshyn for the University of Melbourne’s special event With Ukraine: One Year On, https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/with-ukraine-one-year-on-tickets-5367690296172023 

Interview on SBS Radio Australia “Ukrainian scientists continue to work for the future of their land,” 2022 (in Ukrainian). https://www.sbs.com.au/language/ukrainian/en/podcast-episode/ukrainian-scientists-continue-to-work-for-the-future-of-their-land/0rs9ov6e2 

Interview for the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study “2 Minutes with Professor Dr. Natalia Kudriavtseva”, 2022. https://www.wiko-greifswald.de/mediathek/beitrag/n/2-minutes-with-professor-dr-natalia-kudriavtseva-122879/