Olga Makarova

Olga is a Moscow University graduate, having an MA in Linguistics and also an MPhil in the Russian Language from the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In Britain, she has been teaching Russian to speakers of other languages since 1998. Employed full-time as Teaching and Research Fellow at Queen Mary College, University of London, Olga teaches Russian at all levels and has developed her own teaching materials for courses in Russian Word-Formation, Syntax, and Stylistics.

Olga teaches not only language, but also translation technique. Being a professional translator from English into Russian, Olga has published in Moscow a number of translations - some book length, including Changing Places (2000) and Small World (2004) by David Lodge (Changing Places received a George Soros Award), Anton Chekhov: A Life by Donald Rayfield (which since 2005 has gone through 6 reprints).

Olga holds a PhD degree from Queen Mary for a thesis about the life and works of the publishing tycoon Aleksei Suvorin in late 19th-century Russia. Since 2003, Olga has been teaching Russian language at all levels on the UCL SSEES Evening Course programme.