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linguistics
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at the
University of Toronto
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B.A.
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(Russian and comparative literature Retrieved on May 28, 2007),
Beloit College
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, Beloit, Wisconsin
* 1980:
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(Slavic Languages and Literatures),
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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* 1983:
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, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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
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faculty. She was promoted to full professor in May 2001.
Scholarly work
Kramer is a specialist on Balkan languages and semantics, specifically on South Slavic languages. Her research focus on synchronic linguistics,
sociolinguistics
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, verbal categories, language and politics.
Kramer
author
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ed ''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, receiving a Literature Translation Fellowship from the NEA in 2018.
Kramer co-invented the language "Lavinian" for Nicolas Billon's play ''Butcher''.
Key publications
* 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.
* 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).
* Eran Fraenkel (Author), Christina Kramer (Editor) (1993): ''Language Contact-Language Conflict (Balkan Studies).'' Peter Lang Publishing.
* Christina E. Kramer (1986): ''Analytic Modality in Macedonian.'' (Slavistische Beiträge) Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner.
* Christina Kramer (1985): ''Makedonsko-Angliski Razgovornik''. Skopje: Seminar za makedonksi jazik.
Translations
Christina E. Kramer's translations of several Bulgarian and Macedonian novels (by Luan Starova, Goce Smilevski, Lidija Dimkovska, and
Aleko Konstantinov
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) have been published by the
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and
Penguin Books
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In 2014, Kramer was awarded a
National Endowment for the Arts
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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''). This was the first time ever a NEA grant was awarded to support a translation from Macedonian to English. 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
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