Professor of Theology
Sr. Albert Marie Surmanski, OP is member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. She is Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston where she also teaches at St. Mary’s Seminary. Her main area of research is medieval sacramental theology with a focus on Albert the Great and Aquinas. She has published a translation of Albert the Great’s work On the Body of the Lord, in the CUA Fathers of the Church Medieval Continuation series as well as a translation of Aquinas’s Commentary on the Psalms for the Aquinas Institute. She has published articles in various journals including Logos, Antiphon, Nova et Vetera, and Franciscan Studies.
Ph.D. in Theology, Ave Maria University
M.A. in Theology, Ave Maria University
B.Phil. in Classical Languages and Early Christian Literature, Ave Maria College
Selected Publications:
Albert the Great’s On the Sacraments. Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation series, The Catholic University of America Press. (Manuscript being edited for publication).
“Rejecting in Remedium Tantum: Albert and Aquinas on Marriage as Source of Grace and Occasion of Merit” in Nova et Vetera. Vol 24, No. 2 (2026): 571-586.
“Eucharist” in T&T Clark Handbook of Biblical Thomism. Ed. Matthew Levering, Piotr Roszak and Jörgen Vijen. Oxford: T&T Clark, February 2026.
“Signified but Not Contained: The (Limited) Power of the Sacraments in the Thought of St. Albert the Great” in New Ressourcement, 2 no. 3 (Fall 2025): 609-31.
“Looking Through the Lattices: Albert and Aquinas on the Sacramental Significance of the Eucharist” in Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist ed. Michael Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer OP, and Roger W. Nutt. Sapientia 2025. 177-191.
“Sacramental Wisdom: Humilitatio, Eruditio, Exercitatio in the
Scholastics and Today,” Nova et Vetera. Vol. 21.4. (2023), 1391-1413.
“The Experience of Eucharistic Beauty in Albert the Great’s De Corpore Domini,” Nova et Vetera. Vol. 17.3. (2019), 735-756.
“St. Therese of Lisieux, Feminism, and Eternity: In Conversation with Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, vol 22.1 (2019), 80-106.
Albert the Great’s On the Body of the Lord. Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation series, vol 17.The Catholic University of America Press. 2017.
“Adoring and Eating: Reception of the Eucharist in the Theology of Albert the Great,” Antiphon Journal. Vol 20.3 (2016), 213-240.