Dr. Michael Lindsay

Associate Professor of English and African American Studies

Office: Faculty Hall 128B
Interdisciplinary Studies
College of Arts & Sciences
MichaelLindsay@clayton.edu
Phone: (678) 466-4892

Biography

Dr. Michael Lindsay is an Associate Professor of English and African American Studies in the departments of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Clayton State University. He graduated with a B.A. in English and an M.A. in English and African American Literature from North Carolina Agricultural &Technical State University and a Ph.D. in English from Morgan State University. His research interests include African American Literature, religion, liberation theology, and race. He has published essays in the Journal of Black Studies, PsyArt Journal, and others, presented at various conferences, and is currently working on his manuscript on religion and the Black experience in America, titled, Real God Require Blood: The Religious Significance of Death in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain and If Beale Street Could Talk.

Education

BA, English, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, 2002

MA, English/ African American Literature, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, 2004

Ph D, English, Morgan State University, 2015

Intellectual Contributions

Michael Lindsay, "'A Bastard People. . . Singing and Crying in the Wilderness!': Ifá and the Chance at Legitimacy for Diasporic Africans in America", Lexington Press – January 2025

Michael Lindsay, The Feminine as Divine: The Unseen Power of Yemonja in James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk", Lexington Books – December 2020

Michael Lindsay, "'And They Knew That They Were Naked': The Mortification of the Black Body, Journal of Black Studies – May 2020

Presentations

Michael Lindsay, "The Indiscernibilty Between Wakandans and Namor in Their Fight Against White Supremacy", Beyond the Culture II, Department of Africana Studies at Georgia State University – February 10 2023

Khalilah Ali, Michael Lindsay, LaJuan E. Simpson, Redefining the Sacred: Offering African Traditional Religion as a Counter-Narrative to Christianity in James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk, University of West Georgia 33rd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, UWG Dept. of the Humanities – October 27 2018

Michael Lindsay, The Crucifixion of the Utopia: Intersections Between Christian Anathematic Rhetoric and James Baldwin's White Racism and World Community , South Atlantic Modern Langauge Association 88th Conference, South Atlantic Modern Langauge Association (SAMLA) – November 04 2016

Service to the University & University System of Georgia

University, Faculty Senate, Chairperson – August 2024 to Present

University, Policy Committee, Task Force Member – August 2024 to Present

University, University Hearing Panel, Task Force Member – August 2024 to Present

Teaching Interest

English Composition, American Literature, African American Literature, Caribbean Literature, African American Studies, African American Religion

Research Interest

African American Literature, American Literature, Psychology and Literature, Race, Politics, Religion