Christina Askounis
Lecturer Emerita of English
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.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Lecturer Emerita of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
Contact Information
- Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
- Trent Building, Durham, NC 27708
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askounis@duke.edu
(919) 684-3094
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