Natalia Volvach — The Association Specialists

Natalia Volvach

Stockholm University, , Sweden

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Natalia Volvach is a Ukrainian scholar and writer currently based in Stockholm. She works at the intersection of semiotic landscapes, critical sociolinguistics, and linguistic ethnography. She earned her Ph.D. at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Stockholm University in 2023. Her dissertation entitled “From Words to Voids: Absencing and Haunting in Crimean Semiotic Landscapes” has been distinguished by the Stockholm University Association’s prize in 2023. After her Ph.D., she held a Junior Research Fellowship within Ukraine in European Dialogue program at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria (Sept-Dec 2023). Currently, Natalia is working on her postdoctoral project entitled “Countering Voicelessness? Lived experiences of language among Ukrainians in Sweden” generously funded by the Anna Ahlströms och Ellen Terserus stiftelse. Natalia's work has been featured in Language in Society, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and Linguistic Landscapes.