Christina Kramer

• 1975: B.A. (Russian and comparative literature{{cite web |url=http://server1.fandm.edu/departments/CollegeRelations/PressReleases/2000-01/PR149.html |title=Kramer Discussion April 12 |accessdate=May 28, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807033133/http://server1.fandm.edu/departments/CollegeRelations/PressReleases/2000-01/PR149.html |archivedate=August 7, 2007 }} Retrieved on May 28, 2007), Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin
• 1980: M.A. (Slavic Languages and Literatures), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 1983: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill{{cite web |url=https://www.utoronto.ca/ceres/faculty.html |title=CERES::Faculty |accessdate=May 28, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070525172844/http://www.utoronto.ca/ceres/faculty.html |archivedate=May 25, 2007 }} Retrieved on May 28, 2007

Kramer worked as a translator for Berlitz Translation Service for some time, translating documents from Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish.

Since 1986 Kramer has been a member of the University of Toronto faculty. She was promoted to full professor in May 2001.{{cite news |url=https://www.ualberta.ca/~csp/cas/nletters/nletter_fall_2001.pdf |title=Reports |journal=The CAS Newsletter |issue=97 |page=19 |access-date=May 28, 2007}}

Kramer is a specialist on Balkan languages and semantics, specifically on South Slavic languages. Her research focus on synchronic linguistics, sociolinguistics, verbal categories, language and politics.

Kramer authored Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students. The book – first published in 1999, revised and expanded in 2003 and 2011 – is the most recent English-Macedonian textbook. She is a noted translator of literature from Bulgarian and Macedonian,{{Cite web|title=Translating Skopje: An Interview with Christina Kramer - World Literature in Translation {{!}} Center for the Art of Translation|url=https://www.catranslation.org/blog-post/translating-skopje-an-interview-with-christina-kramer/|access-date=March 11, 2018|website=www.catranslation.org|date=April 3, 2017 |language=en-US}} receiving a Literature Translation Fellowship from the NEA in 2018.{{Cite web|date=September 17, 2018|title=Christina E. Kramer Receives Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts|url=https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/christina-e-kramer-receives-literature-translation-fellowship-national-endowment-arts|access-date=2022-02-21|website=Faculty of Arts & Science|first=Christine|last=Elias|language=en}}

Kramer co-invented the language "Lavinian" for Nicolas Billon's play Butcher.{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Elaine|date=October 29, 2014|title=Learning Lavinian: professors create a new Slavic language|url=http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/newsitems/learning-lavinian-professors-create-new-slavic-language|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914165135/http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/newsitems/learning-lavinian-professors-create-new-slavic-language|archive-date=September 14, 2015|website=University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science}}

• Christina E. Kramer (2003): Macedonian (= Makedonski jazik): A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students. Revised and expanded third edition. University of Wisconsin Press. September 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-299-24764-5}}
• Christina E. Kramer/Brian Cook (1999): Guard the Word Well Bound: Proceedings of the Third North American-Macedonian Conference on Macedonian Studies. Slavica Pub: Indiana Slavic Papers, vol. 10 (1999). {{ISBN|978-9991972534}}
• Eran Fraenkel (Author), Christina Kramer (Editor) (1993): Language Contact-Language Conflict (Balkan Studies). Peter Lang Publishing. {{ISBN|978-0-8204-1652-6}}
• Christina E. Kramer (1986): Analytic Modality in Macedonian. (Slavistische Beiträge) Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner. {{ISBN|978-3-87690-343-9}}
• Christina Kramer (1985): Makedonsko-Angliski Razgovornik. Skopje: Seminar za makedonksi jazik.

Christina E. Kramer's translations of several Bulgarian and Macedonian novels (by Luan Starova, Goce Smilevski, Lidija Dimkovska, and Aleko Konstantinov) have been published by the University of Wisconsin Press and Penguin Books.{{cite web |url=http://sites.utoronto.ca/slavic/kramer/Translations.html |title=Translations by Christina E. Kramer, with links to publishers' pages for individual books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150720213708/http://sites.utoronto.ca/slavic/kramer/Translations.html |archive-date=2015-07-20 |url-status=dead}}

Kramer received the 2006 Book Award from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages for best contribution to language pedagogy for her book Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students.{{cite web |url=http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/briefly/awardsFeb07.asp |title=awards and honours archives (from the U of T Bulletin) February 2007 |website=www.news.utoronto.ca |access-date=May 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070530230120/http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/briefly/awardsFeb07.asp |archive-date=2007-05-30 |url-status=dead}}

In 2014, Kramer was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant to fund her work on translating a novel from Luan Starova's Balkan Saga cycle, The Path of the Eels (or the Pyramid of Water).{{cite web |url=http://arts.gov/writers-corner/bio/christina-e-kramer |title=Christina E. Kramer: 2014 Translation Projects |website=National Endowment for the Arts |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721044926/http://arts.gov/writers-corner/bio/christina-e-kramer |archive-date=2015-07-21 |url-status=dead}} This was the first time ever a NEA grant was awarded to support a translation from Macedonian to English.{{Cite news|url=https://news.artsci.utoronto.ca/all-news/christina-e-kramer-honoured-translating-macedonian-writers/|title=Christina E. Kramer honoured for translating Macedonian writers|date=December 18, 2013|work=Arts & Science News|first=Jessica|last=Lewis|access-date=March 11, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227101206/https://news.artsci.utoronto.ca/all-news/christina-e-kramer-honoured-translating-macedonian-writers/|archive-date=2015-12-27|url-status=dead}} Her translation of Lidija Dimkovska's "A Spare Life" made the long list for the Best Translated Book of 2017 Award.

In 2022, Kramer's translation of The Summer You Weren’t There by Petar Andonovski, from Macedonian to English, won a PEN Translates Award from English PEN.{{Cite web |title=PEN Translates winners announced |url=https://www.englishpen.org/posts/news/pen-translates-winners-announced/ |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=English Pen |language=en-GB}}

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• [http://sites.utoronto.ca/slavic/people/faculty/Kramer.shtml Personal Website]
• [https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4799.htm Macedonian: A course for beginning and intermediate students]
• [https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/macedonian/en/audiotrack/interview-professor-christina-kramer Interview with Christina Kramer on SBS]

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