Elaine Lindsay

Elaine Stuart Lindsay is an Australian academic. She was instrumental in the development of the Women-Church journal which provided publishing opportunities in feminist theology for Australian women.

Elaine Lindsay
Born1948
NationalityAustralian
Occupationacademic, feminist theologian
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisRewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction (1996)
Academic work
DisciplineLiterature, Spirituality
Sub-disciplineAustralian literature
InstitutionsAustralian Catholic University
Main interestsAustralian literature, Spirituality, feminist theology

Early life and education

Elaine Stuart Lindsay was born in 1948 in Adelaide, South Australia. She studied at St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School in Adelaide.[1]

Lindsay has a Bachelor of Arts from Flinders University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Children's Literature from Macquarie University.[1] She has a Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from Australian Catholic University.[1]

She also has a Master of Public Policy, Master of Arts, and PhD from University of Sydney.[2] Her thesis was published as Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction (2000).[3][4]

Career

Lindsay began her career as a radio producer, announcer and interviewer.[1] From 1974 to 1978, Lindsay worked as a broadcaster on Radio 5UV, with a focus on topics related to arts and literature.[2] In 1978, she became the Senior Project Officer for the Literature Board of the Australia Council, a role she held until 1994.[2]

Lindsay taught English Literature at Australian Catholic University between 1996 and 1997.[1]

Between 1997 to 2009, she was a program manager for Literature and History for Arts NSW.[2]

From 2009, she was an Executive Officer at the Australian Catholic University (ACU).[2]

In 2011, she became the Research Development Coordinator for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at ACU.[1] In 2016, she was appointer as Senior Lecturer in Literature.[1]

Lindsay taught feminist theology at the University of Sydney.[2]

Lindsay was co-editor of the Women-Church Journal from 1992 to 2007.[4]

Lindsay was co-editor of Preachers, Prophets and Heretics which detailed the history of the movement for the ordination of women in the Australian Anglican church. The book was shortlisted for the Australian Christian Book of the Year Awards in 2013.[1] The book has been described as inspiring,[5] a well-presented and significant collection,[6] as well as well-researched and substantiated.[7] Lindsay is praised personally for her introductory chapter which honours Patricia Brennan, the first president of the Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW).[6]

Lindsay developed the AustLit service reselling books from publishers that were not stocked in bookstores.[8]

Publications
  • Lindsay, Elaine. Rewriting God: Spirituality in contemporary Australian women's fiction. No. 45. Rodopi, 2000. ISBN 9789042015821[9][10]
  • Lindsay, Elaine. "Figuring the Sacred Geography, Spirituality and Literature." Kunapipi 17, no. 2 (1995): 15.
  • Lindsay, Elaine. "Reading Thea Astley: from Catholicism to post/Christian feminism." Antipodes 9, no. 2 (1995): 119-122.

Co-written and edited
  • Lindsay, Elaine. "The Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan." (1998). ISBN 9780702228926[11]
  • Phillips, Debra and Lindsay, Elaine. (2017). Be-yond becoming: the shared features of art-making and constructing a narrative of the imagined future. Life Writing. doi:10.1080/14484528.2017.1296752
  • Phillips, Debra and Lindsay, Elaine. (2017). Using diary writing: a narrative of radical courage. TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs.
  • Lindsay, Elaine, and Janet Christine Scarfe. Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Anglican Women's Ministry. University of New South Wales Press Ltd, 2012. ISBN 9781742233376[7][6][5]

References
  1. Austlit. "Elaine Lindsay | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  2. "Profile of Elaine Stuart Lindsay". The Literary Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  3. Linday, Elaine. "Rewriting God : spirituality in contemporary Australian women's fiction". sydney.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  4. "Elaine Lindsay | MOWATCH Movement for the Ordination of Women in the Anglican Church". mowatch.com.au. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  5. Webster-Hawes, Anastasia. 2014. “Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Anglican Women’s Ministry.” St Mark’s Review 230 (December)
  6. Dawson, Jennifer. 2013. “Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Anglican Women’s Ministry.” Colloquium 45 (1): 107–10.
  7. Corfield, Tim (28 September 2015). "Elaine Lindsay and Janet Scarfe (eds.), Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Anglican Women's Ministry. New South Publishing, Sydney, 2012, pp. 400, ISBN: 978-1-74223337-6 (pbk)". Journal for the Academic Study of Religion. 28 (3): 344–345. doi:10.1558/jasr.v28i3.26163. ISSN 1031-2943.
  8. Lindsay, E. (1977). Austlit: A Cheap Book and Remainder Service. Media Information Australia, (3), 43.
  9. Haynes, Roslynn. 2002. “Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction.” Uniting Church Studies 8 (1): 63–65.
  10. Brady, Veronica. 2002. "Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction". Australian Literary Studies 20 (3). .
  11. Edelson, Phyllis Fahrie (1999). Lindsay, Elaine; Stewart, Annette M. (eds.). "Diaries and criticism reveal the inner life and the artistry". Antipodes. 13 (1): 65–66. ISSN 0893-5580. JSTOR 41956946.
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