Elaine Padilla

Dr. Elaine Padilla is a Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies, as well as a faculty member in Latinx/Latin American Studies at the University of La Verne's College of Arts and Sciences. Her research interweaves philosophical discourse with Christianity, Latin American and Latino/a religious thought, aesthetics, ecology, gender, and race. She has authored Divine Enjoyment: A Theology of Passion and Exuberance (2015) and co-edited three volumes: Theology and Migration in World Christianity (2013–2015), and Ecological Solidarities (2019). Her current manuscript, The Luminous Darkening of Her, explores decolonized perspectives on indigenous and Afro women's interiority and spiritualities.

• Member, Caribbean Philosophical Association
• Member, American Academy of Religion
• Member, Catholic Theological Society of America