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. 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. Lindsay has a Bachelor of Arts from Flinders University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Children's Literature from Macquarie University. She has a Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from Australian Catholic University. She also has a Master of Public Policy, Master of Arts , and PhD from University of Sydney. Her thesis was published as "Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction" (2000). Career. Lindsay began her career as a radio producer, announcer and interviewer. From 1974 to 1978, Lindsay worked as a broadcaster on Radio 5UV, with a focus on topics related to arts and literature. In 1978, she became the Senior Project Officer for the Literature Board of the Australia Council, a role she held until 1994. Lindsay taught English Literature at Australian Catholic University between 1996 and 1997. Between 1997 to 2009, she was a program manager for Literature  and History for Arts NSW. From 2009, she was an Executive Officer at the Australian Catholic University (ACU). In 2011, she became the Research Development Coordinator for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at ACU. In 2016, she was appointer as Senior Lecturer in Literature. Lindsay taught feminist theology at the University of Sydney. Lindsay was co-editor of the "Women-Church Journal" from 1992 to 2007. 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. The book has been described as inspiring, a well-presented and significant collection, as well as well-researched and substantiated. Lindsay is praised personally for her introductory chapter which honours Patricia Brennan, the first president of the Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW). Lindsay developed the AustLit service reselling books from publishers that were not stocked in bookstores.