Department Leadership

Nina Vyatkina
Dr. Nina Vyatkina
  • Professor
  • Chair, Slavic, German, and Eurasian Studies
  • German Language | Applied Linguistics | Instructed Second Language Acquisition | Corpus-based Language Teaching
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
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