Lecturer
Office Location: 015 Social Sci
Office Phone: 919-684-3094
Email Address: askounis@duke.edu
- Education and Interests:
- BA, University of Virginia
MA, Johns Hopkins University
- Writing1
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Christina Askounis holds a B.A. from Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia and an M.A.from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars.
Her writing experience encompasses newspaper journalism, television and film scriptwriting, poetry and fiction; her short stories have appeared in popular magazines and in Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion. A novel, The Dream of the Stone, originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1993, will be reissued in simultaneous hardcover and trade paperback by Simon and Schuster in Spring 2007. A screenplay,"Enchantment," was a finalist in the 2000 Moondance International Film Festival.
Her current research interests include creative process, writing and healing, and the essays of Michel de Montaigne.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- The Dream of the Stone. Simon and Schuster, Spring, 2007. (Reissue in simultaneous hardcover and trade paperback.)
- C. Askounis. ""The Novice"." Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion. Ed. Geoffrey Wolfe. (Geoffrey Wolfe, Fall, 2005).
- ""Exaggerated Self-Portrait"." Unpleasant Event Schedule (online journal) (Fall, 2003). [htm] [author's comments]
- "Enchantment (screenplay)." (2000). finalist for Best Screenplay, Moondance International Film Festival [author's comments]
- The Dream of the Stone. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993. (Book of the Year, Bank Street College; Parents' Choice Foundation Award; North Carolina Literary and Historical Society's AAUW Award for Excellence in Juvenile Literature; nominee, Best Books for Young Adults, ALA. "First-rate fantasy in the tradition of Charles Williams and Madeleine L'Engle...merits re-reading."--Publishers Weekly) [author's comments]
