Graduate Studies in Slavic at FSU

[Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya]

Graduate Studies in Slavic at Florida State University

The Department of Modern Languages and 
Linguistics at Florida State University offers an 
innovative and interdisciplinary MA curriculum in 
Slavic, with emphases in (1) Russian literature 
and critical theory, and (2) Russian language pedagogy and SLA.

Our MA program emphasizes literary-critical and 
SLA methodologies and theory within a core 
curriculum that includes comprehensive coursework 
in nineteenth- and twentieth-century and contemporary Russian literature.

The Slavic Division offers distinctive seminars including:
  • Transnationalism
  • Critical Approaches to Vladimir Nabokov
  • Gogol and (Lacanian) Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Hermeneutics and Rhetoric of Old Rus' Literature
  • Movements and Genres: Contemporary and 
Traditional Approaches (required capstone)

Our colleagues in the Linguistics Division offer such seminars as:
  • Language Pedagogy and Second Language 
Acquisition (required for all incoming TAs)
  • Theories of Second Language Acquisition
  • Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics

Students may also take graduate seminars such as 
Introduction to Critical Theory and Queer Theory 
while working with faculty in Arabic, East Asian, 
French, German, Italian or Spanish to gain 
expertise in comparative literary and cultural 
studies. Our graduate instructor TAs teach 
courses ranging from Russian language to Russian 
Grammar and Popular Culture to Multicultural Cinema.

Our MA students have been accepted to some of the 
leading PhD programs in Slavic and English in 
North America. With their strong linguistic and 
cultural proficiency, our graduates have gone on 
to careers and internships with the US State 
Department, Department of Defense, Defense 
Language Institute (Monterey), human rights organizations and private firms.

Application deadline:
February 15, 2011: To be considered for admission 
in the fall semester, and to be eligible for 
enhancement funds that would supplement a TAship.

For further information, please consult our 
website at 
http://www.fsu.edu/~modlang/divisions/russian/graduate.html 
or contact Prof. Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya at lwakamiya at fsu.edu.

Thank you for sharing this information with interested students and colleagues.



Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya
Associate Professor of Slavic
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL  32306-1540
phone: 850/644-8391
fax:  850/644-0524 

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