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; Department Chair

Director, East European and Eurasian Studies Minor

Profile

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. Shrayer is Chair of the Department of Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies, and Director of the East European and Eurasian Studies Program. Born 1967 to a Jewish writer 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 淭he World of Nabokov Stories, 淕enrikh Sapgir: An Avant-Garde Classic (with David Shrayer-Petrov; in Russian), 淟eaving Russia: A Jewish Story, 淵om Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories, "Kinship: Poems" and 淧arallel Letters/Parallel檔oe pis檓o. Shrayer works have been translated into thirteen languages. His 淎nthology 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, Shoah (Holocaust), and literary translation.

RECENT BOOKS

  • . Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2025.
  • . Ed. Maxim D. Shrayer. Boston: Academic Studies Press 2025.
  • . Zug, Switzerland: Sandermoen Publishing, 2025.
  • . Tr. by Rita Filanti. Afterword by Stefano Garzonio. Rome: WriteUp Books, 2024.
  • (Bunin and Nabokov: Apprenticeship擬astery擱ivalry, 1917-1977). Moscow: Alpina non-fiction, 2023.
  • . Boston: Cherry Orchard Books, 2023.
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