Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College - Hardcover

by Maxim D. Shrayer (Editor)

Since 1997, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer has been offering seminars on Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian American immigrant writer, at Boston College. This volume features essays by undergraduate and graduate students, which originated in the Nabokov seminar, as well as scholarship by Boston College faculty who work on Nabokov. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov scholarship and criticism. The topics include but are not limited to: translingualism, sexuality, Cold War politics, food studies, Nabokov and the visual arts, religion and metaphysics, urban studies, immigration studies, and modernist poetics. The collection will be of great interest to students and scholars, as well as to the broad audience of Nabokovians.

Author Biography

Maxim D. Shrayer is a bilingual author and 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 the author and editor of over thirty books of nonfiction, biography, fiction, poetry, and translations, most recently the memoir Immigrant Baggage and the collection of poetry Conductor from Zion Square. Shrayer has published four books about Vladimir Nabokov and regularly teaches Nabokov seminars at Boston College. His works have been translated into thirteen languages. For more information, visit www.shrayer.com