Laura Garcia
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Boston College
Laura Garcia is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College. She received her B.A. from Westmont and her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1983. She has taught previously at St. Mary's College, Calvin College, University of St. Thomas, University of Notre Dame, Catholic University of America, Georgetown University, and Rutgers University. Her scholarly work has focused on distinctively Christian approaches to contemporary issues in ethics and metaphysics. She has also lectured widely on issues related to marriage and the family as well as Catholic feminism. Among her recent papers is "Sex and Conversation," her interpretive study of Pope John Paul II's views on gender, marriage and the body. She is the author of "Edith Stein on Feminism and the Cross," Crisis; "A Personalist Understanding of Marriage," forthcoming in Logos; and "St. John of the Cross on the Necessity of Divine Hiddenness," in the collection, "Divine Hiddenness," edited by Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul Moser, Cambridge.
Professor Garcia has been an invited speaker for our "Culture of Death," "Culture of Life," "From Death to Life," "Formation and Renewal," and "Epiphanies of Beauty" conferences. In April 2003 she delivered a lecture, "On the Virtue of Hope," at our "The Good Life: Secular and Theological Perspectives" series.
