Contact Info
- Philosophy Department
- Email: phildept@udallas.edu
- Phone: 972-721-5161
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 鈥 3:00 p.m. or by Appointment
About
Sister Elinor Gardner is a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia. Before arriving at 911爆料网, 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.
鈥淲hat Makes Persons Persons?鈥 (Translation of Robert Spaemann鈥檚 鈥淲as macht Personen zu Personen?鈥) Communio: International Catholic Review. Vol. XLV, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2018): 613-628.
鈥溞⌒惭徰傂感 孝芯屑邪 袗泻胁褨薪褋褜泻懈泄 褨 锌械褉械谐谢褟写 2267-谐芯 邪褉褌懈泻褍谢褍 袣邪褌械褏懈蟹屑褍 袣邪褌芯谢懈褑褜泻芯褩 笑械褉泻胁懈鈥 (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).
鈥淭he woman physician as antidote to the ills of modern medicine.鈥 The Linacre Quarterly, vol. 84 (2017), no. 4: 393-402.
鈥淔aith is the Light of the Soul.鈥 Quaestiones Disputatae vol. 5, no. 1 (Fall 2014): 138-147.
Book Chapter
鈥淣ature and Rights: The Meaning of a Universal Agreement on Human Rights.鈥 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
鈥淎辫辫别迟颈迟别.鈥 New Catholic Encyclopedia 鈥 Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy. Gale-Cenage Learning, 2013. (co-authored)
鈥淓迟丑颈肠蝉.鈥 New Catholic Encyclopedia 鈥 Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy. Gale-Cenage Learning, 2013. (co-authored)