

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies
Director, East European Studies Minor
Lyons Hall 210
Telephone: 617-552-3911
Email: maxim.shrayer@bc.edu
Jews of Russia and USSR; Shoah in the USSR;聽茅migr茅 and translingual literature; Vladimir Nabokov; Ivan Bunin; Soviet poetry; refuseniks
Russian, Jewish, and Anglo-American literature; Shoah literature; comparative literature; literary translation; creative writing.
Maxim D. Shrayer, bilingual author, scholar and translator, is a professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, where he has been teaching since 1996 and co-founded the Jewish Studies Program. 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 over thirty 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 "Kinship: Poems" and 鈥淧arallel Letters/Parallel鈥檔oe pis鈥檓o.鈥 Shrayer鈥檚 works have been translated into thirteen 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, Shoah (Holocaust), and literary translation.