Graduate Studies in Slavic at FSU: extended deadline

[Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya]

Graduate Studies in Slavic at FSU

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 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 TAs)
• Theories of Second Language Acquisition

Students may take courses with faculty in Arabic, 
East Asian, French, German, 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.

Recent speakers in our regular lecture series 
have included Ronelle Alexander (UC Berkeley), 
Rado Pribic (Lafayette), Tomislav Longinovic 
(UW-Madison), and Michael Heim (UCLA). Our 
SLA-focused students recently had the opportunity 
to share their research with Bill VanPatten (Texas Tech).

Our students have been accepted to some of the 
leading PhD programs in Slavic 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 deadlines:
February 28, 2010: To be considered for admission 
in the fall semester, and to be eligible for 
enhancement funds that would supplement a TAship.
March 15, 2010: Extended deadline for 
consideration for admission in the fall semester 
and to be eligible for a TAship.

For further information, please consult our 
website at 
<http://www.fsu.edu/~modlang/divisions/russian/graduate.html>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
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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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