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 md传媒国产剧 College, where he has been teaching since 1996 and co-founded the Jewish Studies Program. Shrayer is Chair of theDepartment of Eastern. Slavic, and German Studies, and Director of the EastEuropean and Eurasian 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 md传媒国产剧 College Shrayer teaches courses on Russian, Anglo-American and comparative literature, Jewish literature and culture, Shoah (Holocaust), and literary translation.

RECENT BOOKS

  • . md传媒国产剧:聽Cherry Orchard Books, 2023.
  • 听摆Poems from the iPad]. Tel Aviv: Babel Bookstore and Publishing, 2022.
  • md传媒国产剧: M-Graphics Publishers, 2020.
  • 听摆础苍迟颈蝉别尘颈迟颈蝉尘听and the Decline of Russian Village Prose: Astaf鈥檈v, Belov, Rasputin]. St. Petersburg: Academic Studies Press/BiblioRossica, 2020.
  • . Edited, with introductory essays,translations and notes by Maxim D. Shrayer. md传媒国产剧: Academic Studies Press, 2018.
  • 3nd聽ed. Moscow: Alpina non-fiction, 2019.
  • , a novel by David Shrayer-Petrov. Edited and with notes by Maxim D. Shrayer. Cotranslated by Arna B. Bronstein, Aleksandra I. Fleszar, and Maxim D. Shrayer. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018.聽
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