Dr. Elaine Padilla

Elaine Padilla is Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Latinx/Latin American Studies. Padilla constructively interweaves current philosophical discourse with Christianity, Latin American and Latino/a religious thought, ecology, gender, and race. She is the author of Divine Enjoyment: A Theology of Passion and Exuberance published by Fordham University Press (2015), and co-editor of a three-volume project with Peter C. Phan, Theology and Migration in World Christianity published by Palgrave MacMillan: Contemporary Issues of Migration and Theology (2013), Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions (2014), and Christianities in Migration: The Global Perspective (2015). She has also published numerous articles and chapters, and her most recent manuscript provisionally titled, Colonial Erasure, Woman and Luminous Darkness being published by Lexington Books (forthcoming in 2024) decolonizes views on indigenous and Afro women’s interiority and spiritualities. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion and of the Catholic Theological Society of America, where she has served in various steering committees and consultations.