Imre Salusinszky

Imre Salusinszky (born 1955) in an Australian journalist and English literature academic^[1] with a strong literary interest in Northrop Frye, a Canadian poet.^[2]

Background and career

Born in Budapest, Salusinszky was educated at Melbourne High School, the University of Melbourne, and Oxford University.^[3] He lectured at Yale University in the USA and at the University of Melbourne,^[4] prior to taking up tenure as an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Newcastle. He started writing for The Australian Financial Review in 1994, and featured for several years on the Coodabeen Champions, on ABC Radio, as well as on Life Matters.^[3]

He was an editorial advisor for Quadrant, a conservative literary and cultural journal, and is currently a political reporter and columnist for The Australian, a conservative newspaper. In 2006, he was appointed Chairman of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for a three-year term, amid criticism of right-wing political bias from former Australia Council Chair, Hilary McPhee.^[5]

Bibliography

Literary cricitism and literary non-fiction

• Davies, J. M. Q., ed. (1994), "Deconstruction in the Classroom: Jane Austen's Persuasion", Bridging the gap: literary theory in the classroom, Locust Hill Press, ISBN 0933951604 

Northrop Frye

• co-authored with Derrida, Jacques (1987(x2) & 2003), Criticism in society: interviews with Jacques Derrida, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Frank Kermode, Edward Said, Barbara Johnson, Frank Lentricchia, and J. Hillis Miller, Routledge, pp. 244, ISBN 0416922805 
• "Visionary Frye", Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, vol. 23 no. 2, June 1996, pp. 590–593, ISSN 0319-051X 
• co-authored with Boyd, David (c. 1999), Rereading Frye: the published and unpublished works, University of Toronto Press, pp. 163, ISBN 080204252X 
• (editor) (c. 2005), Northrop Frye's writings on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, University of Toronto Press, pp. 415, ISBN 0802038247 
• Donaldson, Jeffery; Mendelson, Alan, eds. (2004), "In the Climates of the Mind': Frye's Career as a Spiral Curriculum", Frye and the word: religious contexts in the writings of Northrop Frye, University of Toronto Press, pp. 43–58, ISBN 0802088139 
• Womack, Kenneth; et al., eds. (2002), "Northrop Frye (1912-1991)", The Continuum encyclopedia of modern criticism and theory, Continuum, ISBN 0826414141 

Australian literature

• Gerald Murnane, Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 109, ISBN 0195534220 
• (editor) (1997 & 1999), The Oxford book of Australian essays, Oxford University Press, pp. 295, ISBN 0195537394 

Other non-fiction

• co-edited with Melleuish, Gregory (2002), Blaming ourselves: September 11 and the agony of the left, Duffy &​ Snellgrove, pp. 265, ISBN 1876631376 
• co-reviewed with Melleuish, Gregory (June/July 2008), "Battle of September 11 by John Carroll (2002). "September 11 and the Agony of the Left"", Australian Book Review, no. 242, pp. 15–16, ISSN 0155-2864 

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