Dr. Bogi Perelmutter

Bogi Takács Perelmutter (they/them or e/em) is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant to Kansas who received their PhD from KU in 2021. They are a recent winner of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Jewish Gender Studies Research Award for their work on gender nonconformity in Hungarian Jewish woman writer Zsuzsa Kántor's oeuvre. Their interests include various linguistic and societal aspects of Hungarian and Jewish cultures, their wider historical-political context, and their interactions (including Translation Studies). Dr. Perelmutter is also a health scientist who has conducted laboratory research in atypical language acquisition in both Hungarian and American English. They have taught a range of courses at KU from Introduction to Slavic Folklore to Jewish Mysticism, and has also been active at the KU Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.