Elaine Padilla is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Latinx/Latin American Studies at the University of La Verne. Padilla constructively interweaves current philosophical discourse with Christianity, Latin American and Latino/a religious thought and aesthetics, ecology, gender, and race. She is the author of Divine Enjoyment: A Theology of Passion and Exuberance published by Fordham University Press (2015), co-editor of a three-volume project with Peter C. Phan, Theology and Migration in World Christianity published by Palgrave MacMillan (2013-2015), and co-editor with Krista E. Hughes and Dhawn B. Martin of the book Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Ecological World published by The Pennsylvania State University Press (2019). She has also published numerous articles and chapters, and is currently writing a manuscript provisionally titled, Darkness of Being, in which she explores views on the soul and interiority with implications for artistic performances of self-authenticity in society. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion and of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Dr. Padilla’s scholarly work can be found at ResearchGate.
