Sr. Elinor Gardner, OP
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Phone: (972) 721-5338
Email: srelinor@udallas.edu
Office: Braniff Graduate Building #330
Office Hours: MWF 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. or by Appointment
About
Sister Elinor Gardner is a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia. Before arriving at University of Dallas, she taught at Aquinas College in Nashville, TN and at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Her doctoral work (Boston College) was on the ethics of Thomas Aquinas ("St Thomas Aquinas on the Death Penalty").
- PhD, Philosophy, Boston College, 2009
- Cert. E. Ed., Aquinas College, 2007
- B.A. summa cum laude, Philosophy, St. Anselm College, 1999
Articles
"Punishment as Medicine in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas." The Thomist 87, 1 (Jan. 2023): 1-42.
"Unpacking Robert Spaemann's Philosophical Contribution to the Brain Death Debate." Linacre Quarterly, vol. 86.4 (Nov. 2019): 381-393.
“What Makes Persons Persons?” (Translation of Robert Spaemann’s “Was macht Personen zu Personen?”) Communio: International Catholic Review. Vol. XLV, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2018): 613-628.
“Святий Тома Аквінський і перегляд 2267-го артикулу Катехизму Католицької Церкви” (St. Thomas Aquinas and the Revision of Article 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church). Verbum (Online Journal of the Superior Institute of Religious Sciences of St. Thomas Aquinas, Kiev, Ukraine), no. 10 (Dec. 19, 2018).
“The woman physician as antidote to the ills of modern medicine.” The Linacre Quarterly, vol. 84 (2017), no. 4: 393-402.
“Faith is the Light of the Soul.” Quaestiones Disputatae vol. 5, no. 1 (Fall 2014): 138-147.
Book Chapter
“Nature and Rights: The Meaning of a Universal Agreement on Human Rights.” In Reading the Cosmos: Nature, Science, and Wisdom (American Maritain Association). Edited by Giuseppe Butera. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Appetite.” New Catholic Encyclopedia – Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy. Gale-Cenage Learning, 2013. (co-authored)
“Ethics.” New Catholic Encyclopedia – Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy. Gale-Cenage Learning, 2013. (co-authored)