A few of Dr. Axelrod's
Publications

Mark Axelrod - Professor of English
Department of English - Chapman University
1990 - present

Wilkinson Hall, Chapman University, 1 University Dr., Orange, CA 92866
(714) 997-6586
axelrod@chapman.edu
B.A., M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
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Curriculum Vitae 2009

Mark Axelrod is a graduate of both Indiana University (BA and MA) and the University of Minnesota (PhD). He is the Director of the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing, and has received numerous writing awards including two United Kingdom Leverhulme Fellowships for Creative Writing as well as awards from the Sundance Institute. He has published four novels, Capital Castles (Pacific Writers Press, 2000), Cloud Castles (Pacific Writers Press, 1998), Cardboard Castles (Pacific Writers Press, 1996), Bombay California (Pacific Writers Press, 1994), and has recently completed a novel in three books titled, The Posthumous Memoirs of Blase Kubash. He has also written several collections of short stories, including Dante's Foil & Other Sporting Tales, The Apotheosis of Aaron, and Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage, the last recently published by the Fiction Collective 2 and a prequel to Balzac Coffee, Leonardo’s Suites. He has published two books on screenwriting, Aspects of the Screenplay (Heinemann) and Character & Conflict: Cornerstones of Screenwriting (Heinemann), and has recently completed a book on adaptation titled, I Read It At The Movies. He recently assumed the position of co-editor of the literary journal The New Novel Review, and is a regular reviewer for The Review of Contemporary Fiction. He has been published in numerous journals in the United States and Europe, including the Iowa Review and the New York Quarterly.

Education

• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  Comparative Literature, 1988, Ph.D.
• Indiana University, Bloomington
  Comparative Literature, M.A.
• Indiana University, Bloomington
  Zoology, Spanish, B.A. 
  

Recent Book Publications

• The Scene & How to Write it (screenwriting) Focus Publishing (Forthcoming, 2011).
• Borges' Viajes Hemingway's Talleres (short stories), Editorial Thule, Barcelona, Spain (October, 2009).
• "Fiction at War: FC2 1999-2009". Three short stories from Borges' Travel. (March, 2009).
• I Read it at the Movies (screenwriting/adaptation) Heinemann Publishing (November, 2006).  

See Dr. Axelrod's CV (above) for more of his book publications.

Recent Anthologies Published/To Be Published

• Golden Handcuffs Review Winter-Spring 2009; Vol. 1, No. 12 Guest Editor
• Golden Handcuffs Review Winter-Spring 2009; Vol. 1, No. 9 Guest Editor
• Golden Handcuffs Review Winter-Spring 2008; Vol. 1, No. 8 Guest Editor

See Dr. Axelrod's CV (above) for more of his anthologies published.

Recent Film Work

• Hoosiers: 25th Silver Anniversary Edition. Collaborating with film director, David Anspaugh and screenwriter, Angelo Pizzo, on publishing a book devoted to the making of the film, Hoosiers.
•  Working with Chilean film director, Edgardo Viereck, on two films: Seven Days in Santiago and Buenos Aires, Argentina.  

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 Recent Short Stories/Novel Excerpts

• Golden Handcuffs Review #13 Seattle, WA (Fall 2009; Vol. 1, No. 13, 2009
• Golden Handcuffs Review #7, Seattle, WA (Summer, Fall 2007; Vol. 1, No. 7, 2007)
• Artful Dodge, College of Wooster, Woosters, OH (Winter, 2005)

See Dr. Axelrod's CV (above) for more of his short stories/novel excerpts.

Recent Creative Non-Fiction

• "Bits and Pieces with Coffey"; An Epistolary Meeting with Brian Coffey Irish American Magazine, New York, (October-November, 2009).
• "The End of it: The End. A Last Meeting with Samuel Beckett" Irish American Magazine, New York, (June-July, 2009).

Note: Dr. Axelrod is a regular blogger on huffingtonpost.com

Recent Literary and Film Reviews

(Literary)

• Axelrod, M., It Might Do Well With Strawberries, David Matlin, American Book Review, New York, NY (Summer, 2009).
• Axelrod, M., The Philosophers' Madonna, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Normal, IL (Spring 2009).
• Axelrod, M., Obieru, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Normal, IL (Fall, 2007).

(See Dr. Axelrod's CV (above) for more of his literary and film reviews.