Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies Faculty
Maxim D. Shrayer (МАКСИМ Д. ШРАЕР)
Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies; Director, East European Studies Minor
Maxim D. Shrayer (МАКСИМ Д. ШРАЕР)
Ph.D.
Contact
Lyons Hall 210
Telephone: 617-552-3911
Email: maxim.shrayer@bc.edu
Education
Research Interests
Jews of Russia and USSR; Shoah in the USSR; émigré and translingual literature; Vladimir Nabokov; Ivan Bunin; Soviet poetry; refuseniks
Specialization
Russian, Jewish, and Anglo-American literature; Shoah literature; comparative literature; literary translation; creative writing.
Biography
Maxim D. Shrayer, an author, scholar and translator, is a professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College. Born 1967 to a writer’s family, Shrayer grew up in Moscow and emigrated to the United States in 1987. He has authored and edited twenty books of scholarship, 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” and “Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories.” Shrayer’s works have been translated into nine languages. His “Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature” won a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, and in 2012 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
RECENT BOOKS
- Immigrant Baggage: Mortificians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile. Boston: Cherry Orchard Books, 2023.
- Stikhi iz aipada [Poems from the iPad]. Tel Aviv: Babel Bookstore and Publishing, 2022.
- Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant. Boston: M-Graphics Publishers, 2020.
- Antisemitizm i upadok russkoi derevenskoi prozy: Astaf’ev, Belov, Rasputin [Antisemitism and the Decline of Russian Village Prose: Astaf’ev, Belov, Rasputin]. St. Petersburg: Academic Studies Press/BiblioRossica, 2020.
- Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature: An Anthology. Edited, with introductory essays,translations and notes by Maxim D. Shrayer. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018.
- Bunin i Nabokov: Istoriia sopernichestva (Bunin and Nabokov: A History of Rivalry). 3nd ed. Moscow: Alpina non-fiction, 2019.
- Doctor Levitin, a novel by David Shrayer-Petrov. Edited and with notes by Maxim D. Shrayer. Cotranslated by Arna B. Bronstein, Aleksandra I. Fleszar, and Maxim D. Shrayer. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018.