Vera Tsareva-Brauner is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of
Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages where she
teaches and examines a number of language tripos, including Translation
from and into Russian. Vera is Director of Studies for Russian at Queens'
College, Cambridge.
Vera is also a Coordinator of Cambridge University Russian Language
Programmes (CULP) where she teaches a variety of levels from Ab Initio to
Advanced and Russian Through Film and Culture to Cambridge undergraduates,
post-graduates and post-doctoral students.
Her academic research focuses on issues of Russian identity through studies
of the legacy of Russian emigration in France in 1920-1940s with the
emphasis on the aspect of memory in Russian and Soviet discourse. Vera's
book 'Autographs Don't Burn - Letters to the Bunins' is published by
Academic Studies Press (Boston) in September 2020. Vera is also engaged in
translation studies - she has edited a number of translations and is also
an editor of 'Lost and Found in Translation' (to be published by Academic
Studies Press in 2021).
She graduated from St Petersburg University with BA (Hons) and MA, and
later did her post-graduate degree at Manchester University.