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Maxim Shrayer's profile

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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.
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