Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies Faculty

Maxim D. Shrayer (袦袗袣小袠袦 袛. 楔袪袗袝袪)

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies

Director, East European Studies Minor

Profile

Maxim D. Shrayer, an author, scholar and translator, is a professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College. Born 1967 to a Jewish writer鈥檚 family, Shrayer grew up in Moscow, spent almost nine years as a refusenik, and emigrated to the United States in 1987. He has authored and edited twenty-five books of scholarship, biography, nonfiction, fiction, poetry and translation in English and Russian, among them 鈥淭he World of Nabokov鈥檚 Stories,鈥 鈥淕enrikh Sapgir: An Avant-Garde Classic鈥 (with David Shrayer-Petrov; in Russian), 鈥淟eaving Russia: A Jewish Story,鈥 鈥淵om Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories,鈥 and "Kinship: Poems." Shrayer鈥檚 works have been translated into eleven languages. His 鈥淎nthology of Jewish-Russian Literature鈥 won a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, and in 2012 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. At Boston College Shrayer teaches courses on Russian, Anglo-American and comparative literature, Jewish literature and culture, Holocaust, and literary translation.