Adam Eitel is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Dallas, where he teaches broadly in Catholic moral theology and social thought. A specialist in medieval scholasticism, his scholarship centers on Thomas Aquinas and the history of Thomistic thought. His forthcoming English–Latin facing translation of Aquinas’s Contra impugnantes Dei cultum et religionem (Catholic University of America Press) situates the work within the tradition of Christian apologia, revealing its rhetorical, ecclesiological, and political dimensions. His first book, Heroic Virtue, draws on previously unexamined manuscripts to clarify Aquinas’s account of virtue and law in relation to the gifts of the Holy Spirit; a second book in progress, The Invention of the Preacher, explores the ideal of ‘the preacher’ in early Dominican literature, tracing its civic and spiritual dimensions in Aquinas, his contemporaries, and later collections of exempla and Thomistic commentary.
Professor Eitel is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship at the Université de Fribourg and, more recently, a McDonald Fellowship at the Dominican House of Studies. Before joining the University of Dallas in 2023, he taught for eight years at Yale University, where he held appointments in the Divinity School, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Humanities Program. He resides with his wife and their three children in Dallas.