Imre Salusinszky

Imre Salusinszky (born 1955) is an Australian journalist, former spokesmodel for discount Australian clothes brand Lowes, and English literature academic^[1] with a strong literary interest in the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye.^[2]

Background and career

Born in Budapest, Salusinszky was educated at Melbourne High School, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Oxford.^[3] He lectured at Yale University 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 a well respected 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. He was known around the Sydney establishment for spruiking $99 dinner suits from discount brand Lowes to several former premiers and prime ministers. He was chief spinner to New South Wales Premier Mike Baird, but never managed to force him to wear a $99 Lowes suit. Since retiring from politics In 2017, he is now a stay at home father to a cavoodle called Honey.^[5]

Bibliography

• Salusinszky, Imre (1987). 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. London: Methuen.
• Gerald Murnane, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 109, ISBN 0-19-553422-0
• 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 0-933951-60-4
• Salusinszky, Imre (Oct 1995). "Thomas Keneally : my part in his downfall". Quadrant. 39 (10): 23–26.
• "Visionary Frye", Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, vol. 23 no. 2, June 1996, pp. 590–593, ISSN 0319-051X
• (editor) (1999) [1997], The Oxford book of Australian essays, Oxford University Press, p. 295, ISBN 0-19-553739-4CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
• co-authored with Boyd, David (c. 1999), Rereading Frye: the published and unpublished works, University of Toronto Press, p. 163, ISBN 0-8020-4252-X
• Womack, Kenneth; et al., eds. (2002), "Northrop Frye (1912-1991)", The Continuum encyclopedia of modern criticism and theory, Continuum, ISBN 0-8264-1414-1
• co-edited with Melleuish, Gregory (2002), Blaming ourselves: September 11 and the agony of the left, Duffy & Snellgrove, p. 265, ISBN 1-876631-37-6
• (editor) (c. 2005), Northrop Frye's writings on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, University of Toronto Press, p. 415, ISBN 0-8020-3824-7CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
• 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 0-8020-8813-9
• 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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