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Christina Askounis

Christina Askounis, Lecturer

Contact Info:
Office Location:  015 Social Sci
Office Phone: +1 919 684 3094
E-mail Address:  send me a message

Education:

  • M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1969
  • BA, University of Virginia, 1968
Specialties:
Creative Writing
Writing

Research Interests:
Creative Writing

Current projects:
Novel in progress, preparation for two new courses.

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.



Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  • Askounis, C. "'Exaggerated Self-Portrait'."  February, 2014. [htm]
  • Askounis, C. "Lies and Consequences."  Ed. Bliwise, R Duke University, 2008. [html]  [author's comments]
  • Askounis, C. The Dream of the Stone.  Simon and Schuster, Spring, 2007 . (Reissue in simultaneous hardcover and trade paperback.)
  • Askounis, C. "The Novice."  Ed. Wolfe, G Geoffrey Wolfe, October, 2005. [christina-askounis]
  •  ""Exaggerated Self-Portrait"."  Fall, 2003. [htm]  [author's comments]

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