In 2006, Rennes was appointed as a lecturer at the Institute of Communication of the
Lumière University Lyon 2, where she taught courses on discourse theory, media
semiology, and
history of journalism. In 2009, she joined a Russian-speaking
research network on gender, taught a master's degree on gender at
European Humanities University, in
Vilnius, Lithuania, in collaboration with Belarusian researchers. In 2010, she was elected to the EHESS, her research program focuses on the history of controversies related to equal rights. Since October 2010, she is co-director with Rose-Marie Lagrave and Éric Fassin of the research program at EHESS entitled " genre, politique et sexualité". In 2016, she directed the
Encyclopédie critique du genre. She is a statutory member of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at EHESS. ==Selected works==