Maxim Shrayer's profile

Affiliation: Boston College
Full title: Professor of Russian, English and Jewish Studies
Address: Department of Slavic and EasternLanguages and Literatures, Lyons Hall 201,BostonCollege - 02467 - Chestnut Hill, MA - USA
Tel.: 617 552 3911
Fax: 617 552 3913
E-mail: shrayerm@bc.edu

 

Main scientific activities

• Maxim D. Shrayer(www.shrayer.com) was born in 1967 in Moscow, immigrated to the United Statesin 1987, and holds a Ph.D. from Yale University."The World of Nabokov’s Stories" and "Russian Poet/SovietJew."
• "Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration"
• "Yom Kippur in Amsterdam."

Books and other main pubblications

• Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories. Syracuse: Syracuse UniversityPress, 2009.
• Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration. Syracuse: SyracuseUniversity Press, 2007.
• Selected books of criticism andbiography:
• Genrikh Sapgir: Avant-garde Classic (with David Shrayer-Petrov).St. Petersburg: Dmitrij Bulanin, 2004 [in Russian]
• Nabokov: Themes and Variations. St. Petersburg: Academic Project,2000 [in Russian]
• Russian Poet/Soviet Jew: The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii. Lanham,MA and London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
• The World of Nabokov's Stories. Austin, TX: University of TexasPress, 1998.
• Anthologies:
• An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of DualIdentity in Prose and Poetry, 1801-2001. 2 vols. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2007.

Edited Books

• Autumn in Yalta: A Novel andThree Stories, by David Shrayer-Petrov. Edited, cotranslated,             withnotes and an afterword by Maxim D. Shrayer. Syracuse: Syracuse University      Press,2006.
• Stikhotvoreniia i poemy (Shorter and Longer Poems), by GenrikhSapgir.  Introduction, editorialpreparation of the text, commentary by Maxim D. Shrayer and DavidShrayer-Petrov.  St. Petersburg:Akademicheskii proekt [Academic Project], 2004 [Novaia biblioteka poeta, Malaiaseriia.
• Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Storiesof Russia and America, by David Shrayer-Petrov.Edited, cotranslated, and withan afterword by Maxim D. Shrayer. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003 (Series: Library of ModernJewish Literature.)

Main recent articles

• 2008): 345-353.“In Search of Jewish-RussianLiterature: A Historical Overview. ”Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 61(2008): 5-30.