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Maxim D. Shrayer, an author, scholar and translator, is a professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College. 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 twenty-five 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� and "Kinship: Poems." Shrayer鈥檚 works have been translated into eleven 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, Holocaust, and literary translation.

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