The Language CentreVera Tsareva-Brauner
Position:
- CULP Russian Coordinator and Senior Teaching Associate
- CULP Greek (Modern) Coordinator
Contact Information
Email: vt220@cam.ac.uk
Profile
Vera is Coordinator and Teaching Associate for Russian and Modern Greek language programmes at CULP and a Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, where she teaches, supervises and examines a number of Russian language papers.
Vera is also Director of Studies (Russian/Slavic Studies) at Queens’ College, Cambridge and External Examiner for Russian post-graduate students at Oxford University.
She was educated in St Petersburg and Manchester Universities.
Vera's particular interests include language acquisition through media, film studies and within a cultural context.
Research interests:
- Translation studies
- Attribution and commentary in historic discourse (RAL Archive work)
Recent published works:
- Unknown Autograph of Ivan Bunin, Vernadsky State University, 2017.
- Yuri Tynianov’s ‘Death of the Vaizr Mukhtar’ (Translation Editor), Look Multimedia, London, 2018.
- Editing in the Absence of Translator, BASSES paper, 2018.
- Autographs Don’t Burn, Academic Studies Press, Boston, 2020.
- Lost and Found in Translation: Translating from and into Slavic Languages, Academic Studies Press – scheduled for publication in 2021. Editor.
Ioulia Ignatievskaia
Profile
Ioulia is a Teaching Associate of Russian for CULP. Her teaching experience is wide-ranging and includes teaching Russian language and culture at the Universities of Oxford, Westminster, and Surrey, as well as teaching and examining GCSE and A-level students. She is an EDEXEL Assessor for Russian and has been an External Examiner for a number of UK universities.
Ioulia was educated at Moscow Linguistic University (BA, Hons), and the University of Hull (MA).
Ioulia currently teaches on the postgraduate Russian and Eastern European Studies programme at the University of Oxford, where she is also an assessor, and conducts supervisions at the Department of Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, at the University of Cambridge.
Her interests are in the areas of distance and blended learning, using technology in language learning, and cross-cultural communication.
