Directory
Gloria Falcão Dodd
Research Professor
Adjunct
College of Arts and Sciences: IMRI, Religious Studies
Degrees
- B.A., Christendom College
- M.Div., Dominican House of Studies
- S.T.L., Dominican House of Studies
- Doctor of Sacred Theology, International Marian Research Institute, University of Dayton
Courses taught
- REL 250: Special Topics: Why Mary?
- REL 250: Special Topics: Marian Prayer and Devotion
- REL 566: Marian Dogmas
Professional activities
- Mariological Society of America, Secretary, 2021-present
- Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
- Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis
Research interests
- Mary's mediation of grace
- The Legion of Mary
Selected publications and presentations
- Presentation: "Mother and Mediatrix of Grace, Mass 30 in the Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary." Mariological Society of America. Cullman, Alabama. May 24, 2023.
- Presentation: "Bibliography 2022." Mariological Society of America. Cullman, Alabama. May 24, 2023.
- Presentation: "Why Catholics Venerate Mary." Catholic Life Group, University of Dayton. Dayton, Ohio. April 14, 2023.
- Presentation: "The Healing Power of Love: Our Lady of Lourdes." Marian Conference. Centerville, OH. Feb. 11, 2023.
- Jesus' earthly dad, St. Joseph - often overlooked - is honored by Father's Day in many Catholic nations. The Conversation. June 16, 2022. https://theconversation.com/
jesus-earthly-dad-st-joseph- often-overlooked-is-honored- by-fathers-day-in-many- catholic-nations-184524. - Presentation: Co-author with Fr. Johann Roten. "Bibliography 2021." Mariological Society of America. May 18, 2022.
- Presentation: "Mary in English-speaking Cultures." 25th Mariological-Marian International Congress. Sept. 9, 2021.
- Presentation: Co-author with Fr. Thomas Thompson. "The Mariological Society of America: A History and a Future." Mariological Society of America. May 13, 2020.
- "The Presentation of Mary: An Historical Event?" Missio Immaculata International Vol. 15, No. 4 July/August 2019, pages 6-11.
- Presentation: "Mary in the Latin Rite Liturgy of Matrimony in the USA: Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms." Mariological Society of America. May 18, 2018.
- "Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner on the Coredemption and Mediation of the Blessed Virgin Mary" Chapter 8 in The Spirit and the Church: Peter Damian Fehlner's Franciscan Development of Vatican II on the Themes of the Holy Spirit, Mary, and the Church-Festschrift, edited by J. Isaac Goff, Christian W. Kappes, Edward J. Ondrako. Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Publications, 2018.
- "A Marian Respect for the Clergy." Missio Immaculatae International Vol. 14, no. 1 (January-February 2018): 15-20.
- "2015 Bibliography" (2015). Marian Bibliographies
- Presentation: Sursum Actio Symposium, "Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner on the coredemption and mediation of the Blessed Virgin Mary," University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind. June 8, 2015.
- "Feminist and New Feminist Perspectives on Mary: Renewal or Retrieval?," Marian Studies: Vol. 65 (2014), Article 11, pages 277-328.
- "2014 Bibliography" (2014). Marian Bibliographies.
- Queen of Purgatory. Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute. Oct. 28, 2013.
- Presentation: Marian Symposium, "Mary as Mediatrix in Lumen Gentium 62 in continuity with the past," Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Oct. 12, 2013.
- "2013 Bibliography" (2013). Marian Bibliographies.
- "2012 Bibliography" (2012). Marian Bibliographies.
- The Virgin Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace: History and Theology of the Movement for a Dogmatic Definition from 1896 to 1964. New Bedford, Mass.: Academy of the Immaculate, 2012.
- "The Legion of Mary in the United States of America: Historical Highlights from 1931 to 2004."Marian Studies 63 (2012): 45-85.
- "2011 Bibliography" (2011). With Johann G. Roten. Marian Bibliographies.
- “A Pre-Vatican II Theology of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces: From Mercier to Vatican II” in Mary at the Foot of the Cross VII: Coredemptrix, therefore Mediatrix of All Graces: Acts of the Seventh International Symposium on Marian Coredemption (New Bedford, Mass.: Academy of the Immaculate, 2008).
- “Mother of the Church: An Examination of the 1964 Declaration,” Marian Studies 57 (2006): 322-335.
- “The Nuptial Meaning of the Body in the Marriage of Mary and Joseph,” in The Virgin Mary and Theology of the Body (Stockbridge, Mass.: Marian Press, 2005).