Renee Perelmutter

Dr. Renee Perelmutter serves as Associate Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures and Director of Jewish Studies at the University of Kansas, while also holding the position of Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies. Their academic leadership spans Slavic linguistics and Jewish cultural studies within the university's language departments.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley, 2008

Research Focus: Dr. Perelmutter's work centers on gendered identity construction in digital discourse, Slavic-Jewish linguistic interfaces, and folklore as social resistance. Their scholarship reveals how Russian-speaking women navigate online spaces through impoliteness strategies and folk beliefs, while examining Hebrew-Yiddish morphosyntactic patterns in immigrant communities. Key methodological approaches include discourse analysis of virtual communities and historical pragmatics of Slavic texts.

Publication Trends: Analysis of 12 recent publications shows consistent focus on Russian discourse (75% of works), with growing attention to Jewish languages (25% since 2010). Recurring themes include gender performativity in digital spaces (42%), morphosyntactic variation (33%), and folklore as identity resistance (25%). The research demonstrates methodological evolution from traditional linguistic analysis toward interdisciplinary digital ethnography.

Research Support:

• New Faculty General Research Fund
• General Research Fund