Natalia Petrovskaia is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (MA, MPhil, PhD), where she had also held a research fellowship at Clare Hall (2012-14). She has also held a Humboldt Research Fellowship at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Her research interests include medieval geographical traditions, translation and transmission of texts, literary and scientific, in medieval and early modern Europe, as well as Arthurian literature. Her monographs include Medieval Welsh Perceptions of the Orient (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), Delw y Byd. A Medieval Welsh Encyclopedia (Cambridge: MHRA, 2020) and This is Not a Grail Romance. Understanding Historia Peredur vab Efrawc (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2023). She is the winner of the 2021 Journal of the International Arthurian Society Essay Prize, for her article on the legal aspects of the medieval Welsh prose narrative Historia Peredur vab Efrawc. She is currently preparing a monograph on the development of the medieval European geographical tradition, based on her study of the vernacular translations and adaptations of the encyclopedia known as the Imago mundi. This research was funded by the Dutch Research Council VENI grant (https://www.nwo.nl/projecten/275-50-015-0).