Lecturer
Office Location: 110 Bell Tower Trailers
Office Phone: (919) 684-3094
Email Address: askounis@duke.edu
Teaching (Fall, 2009):
- English 103s.01, Writing: short stories
Synopsis
- Perkins 2-059, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- English 109s.03, Special topics writing
Synopsis
- Allen 304i, W 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- Office Hours:
- Tuesday and Friday 3-5pm
- Education and Interests:
- BA, University of Virginia
MA, Johns Hopkins University
- Creative Writing
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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, was 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 fiction and creative nonfiction, creative process, spiritual autobiography, humor, travel literature, literary criticism by creative writers and the essays of Michel de Montaigne.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- "Lies and Consequences." Duke Magazine Ed. Robert Bliwise. 94.3Duke University, (May-June 2008) [html] [author's comments]
- 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). [christina-askounis]
- ""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]
