Julianne schultz biography
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Julianne Schultz
Australian academic and literary editor
Julianne SchultzAMFAHA (born 1956) is an Australian academic, media manager, author and editor. She was the founding editor of the Australian literary and current affairs journal Griffith Review. She is currently a professor at Griffith University's Centre for Social and Cultural Research.
Early years and education
[edit]Schultz was born on 2 January 1956 in Hamilton, Victoria. Her father, Dr Noel Schultz, was born and brought up in the Darling Downs in Queensland and married Dr Cynthia Weiss in Adelaide in 1955 after he graduated from Concordia Lutheran College. Cynthia was a deaconess of the Lutheran Church in South Australia. Noel Schultz was appointed the Lutheran pastor at Hamilton, Victoria, and was subsequently appointed pastor at Gilgandra, New South Wales, Tabor in Victoria and Brisbane, before joining the Uniting Church in Melbourne. Cynthia Schultz trained as a psychologist at the University of Queens
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About the Author
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Emeritus Professor Julianne Schultz AM
Julianne Schultz AM FAHA is the publisher and founding editor of Griffith Review and Professor of Media and Culture in the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University. She is a non-executive director of The Conversation and chairs its editorial advisory board, and is also an acclaimed author of several books, including Reviving the Fourth Estate (Cambridge) and Steel City Blues (Penguin), and the librettos to the award-winning operas Black River and Going Into Shadows, as well as The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation, which inspired the conference theme for 2023.
Julianne became a Member of the Order of Australia for services to journalism and the community in 2009 and an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities the following year. She is a thought leader on media and culture and an accomplished public speaker and facilitator. She has served on the board of di