Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University, holding a courtesy appointment as Associate Professor of English. She coordinates the Slavic Program and serves as its graduate adviser. Her academic background includes a PhD from UCLA's Slavic Languages and Literatures program.

Her research focuses on 20th/21st-century Russian culture, exile narratives, translation theory, critical theory, and material approaches to narrative. Notable projects include 'Collecting Objects, Materializing Ethics' (exploring object-narrative relationships) and work on Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Sokurov, and post-Soviet trauma studies. Her scholarship has been supported by prestigious fellowships including the Davis Center Senior Fellowship at Harvard and Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.

Publications span monographs like Locating Exiled Writers in Contemporary Russian Literature to edited volumes such as A Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Reader. Teaching awards include FSU's Undergraduate Teaching Award. Wakamiya has advised graduate students in Slavic studies and maintains active editorial roles in academic publishing.

Her academic service includes roles in curriculum development and graduate mentoring. Research trends emphasize transnational cultural intersections, material culture studies, and re-evaluating canonical texts through modern critical lenses.