Nataliya (Natasha) Karageorgos specializes in 20th-21st-century Russian  and Russophone literature and links between Russian and Anglo-American poetry. Currently, she is working on a book titled Forbidden Attraction: Russian Poets Read T. S. Eliot during the Cold War. She is also a coordinator of a project dedicated to the preservation of the legacy of the Mariupol Greeks. Her scholarly interests include poetry, modernism and postmodernism, Cold War studies, and post-colonial studies. 

She earned her BA in English and her kandidatskaya degree in Russian literature from Tomsk State University. In 2019, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center, CUNY. Before coming to Wesleyan, she taught at Queens College, Baruch College, and Middlebury College.