Advising

College Advisors

Aley Pennington
Aley Pennington
  • Graduate Academic Advisor
  • Slavic, German, and Eurasian Studies
  • East Asian Languages & Cultures
  • French, Francophone, and Italian Studies
  • Spanish & Portuguese; Philosophy; Classics

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Renee Perelmutter
Dr. RB Perelmutter
  • Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Professor
  • Morphosyntax and Pragmatics of Slavic and Jewish Languages | Gendered Practices and Identities in Multiparticipant Discourse | Jewish Culture | General and Jewish Folklore

Director of Graduate Studies

Oleksandra Wallo
Dr. Oleksandra Wallo
  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Director of the KU Summer Language Institute in Lviv, Ukraine
  • 20th- and 21st- c. Ukrainian Women’s Writing | Nationalism Studies | Women’s Studies | Post-Colonial Approaches in Post-Soviet Studies | Second Language Studies (Slavic Languages Pedagogy, Acquisition of The Ukrainian Case Systems, Processing Instruction

Advisor for the Peace and Conflict Studies Minor

Language Coordinators

Razi Ahmad
Dr. Razi Ahmad
  • Lecturer
  • Language Coordinator, Persian
  • Advisor, Peace and Conflict Studies Minor
  • Persian Language Acquisition | Iranian and Muslim Studies | Nationalism
Biljana Konatar
Biljana Konatar
  • Multi-Term Lecturer
  • Lanugage Coordinator, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian
  • Linguistic Anthropology | Sociolinguistics | Language Pedagogy | Heritage Language Learning | Syntax | Translation and Interpretation
Esra Predolac
Dr. Esra Predolac
  • Multi-Term Lecturer
  • Language Coordinator, Turkish
  • Assistant Director CREES
  • Syntax and its interfaces | Clausal complements | Nominalizations | Embedded root phenomena | Extraposition | Second Language Acquisition