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Maxim Shrayer
Professor, Slavic and Eastern Languages Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Brown University; M.A. Rutgers University; M.A., M.Phil. Yale University;
Ph.D. Yale University
Modern Russian literature and culture, including cinema; the Jewish theme in modern literature; emigration and identity. A contemporary Russian-American poet, prosaist, critic, and translator, he is author of the books Nabokov: Themes and Variations: Russian Poet/Soviet Jew: The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii and Against Commonsense: The World of Nabokov's Short Stories. Has also published three collections of verse, Herd Above the Meadow and An American Romance and New Haven Sonnets. Author of numerous articles, including "Mapping Narrative Space in Vladimir Nabokov's Stories" and "Death, Immortality, and Nabokov's Jewish Theme." Courses include: "Desire and Death in Literature"; "Tolstoy and Dostoevsky"; "Russian & Soviet Cinema"; "Nabokov"; "Jewish Writers in Russia and America"; "Romantizm (Romanticism in Russian Literature)"; "Advanced Russian Writing and Translation."
617.552.3911
shrayerm@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html
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