Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies Faculty

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’s 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 “The World of Nabokov’s Stories,” “Genrikh Sapgir: An Avant-Garde Classic” (with David Shrayer-Petrov; in Russian), “Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story,” “Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories,” and "Kinship: Poems." Shrayer’s works have been translated into eleven languages. His “Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature” 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.