Christina Kramer


Christina Elizabeth Kramer is Professor Emerita of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto and a literary translator.

Education and career

Kramer worked as a translator for Berlitz Translation Service for some time, translating documents from Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish.
Early in her career Kramer taught Russian and Spanish at Murray State University in Kentucky.
Kramer joined the University of Toronto faculty in 1986. She was promoted to full professor in May 2001 and retired in June 2019.

Scholarly work

Kramer is a specialist on Balkan languages, specifically on South Slavic languages, with a particular focus on Macedonian. Her research has focused on synchronic linguistics, sociolinguistics, verbal categories, language and politics.
Kramer authored . The book – first published in 1999, was revised and expanded in 2003 and 2011. The second edition won the 2006 AATSEEL book prize: Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy.
She is a noted translator of literature from Bulgarian and Macedonian, receiving a Literature Translation Fellowship from the NEA in 2013 and 2018. Information on her translations is available at http://www.christinakramertranslator.ca.
Kramer co-invented the language "Lavinian" for Nicolas Billon's play Butcher.

Publications

  • Christina E. Kramer
  • Christina E. Kramer ' and Revised and expanded third edition. University of Wisconsin Press. September 2011.
  • Christina E. Kramer/Brian Cook Guard the Word Well Bound: Proceedings of the Third North American-Macedonian Conference on Macedonian Studies. Slavica Pub: Indiana Slavic Papers, vol. 10.
  • Eran Fraenkel, Christina Kramer : ' Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Christina E. Kramer Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner.
  • Christina Kramer 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, Petar Andonovski, Aco Šopov, and Aleko Konstantinov have been published by the University of Wisconsin Press, Parthian Books, Autumn Hill Books, Deep Vellum, Istros Books, Two Lines Press and Penguin Books.