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Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Associate Professor

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000 (Slavic Languages and Literatures)

Professor Wakamiya’s research interests include the literature of exile, 20th and 21st-century Russian literature, transnationalism, critical theory, and translation.

Her book The Location of Exiled Writers in Contemporary Russian Literature: Exiles at Home (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) examines the work of exiles from the Soviet Union who returned to a reformed post-Soviet Russia. It demonstrates how narratives of return variously reorganize the poetics of exilic writing and engage the reader in the project of rhetorically constructing stable identities within a heterogeneous and changing national imaginary.

Other representative recent publications include "Rhetorical Constructions of Repatriation in the Work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (Ritoricheskie konstruktsii repatriatsii v proizvedeniakh Aleksandra Solzhenitsyna) in New Literary Review (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie; forthcoming in January 2010); "Humbert's Appeals to the Jury Not of his Peers" (Approaches to Teaching Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, New York: MLA, 2008); and "Literature and Cultural Institutions by and for Soviet and Post-Soviet Youth" (Soviet and Post-Soviet Childrens' Literature and Culture, Marina Balina and Larissa Rudova, eds. New York: Routledge, 2007).

Office Hours

• E-mail: lwakamiy@fsu.edu
  
• Courses - current
  • SLL3510-1 Slavic Vampire
  • RUS4930-2 Critical Approaches to Nabokov
    
• Courses - previous
• RUS2200-1 Intermediate Russian
• RUS5940-1 Teaching Practicum
• RUS5906-1