Annie Killian, OP, PhD, is Assistant Professor of English at ODU and a Dominican Sister
of Peace. She holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford and PhD from Yale University.
Between 2021-23, she was the inaugural Public Humanities Fellow for the Medieval Institute
at the University of Notre Dame. Her scholarship focuses on poetry and theology in
fifteenth-century England as well as spirituality and theological education today.
She has published in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, Speculum: A Journal
of Medieval Studies, and Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Dr. Killian serves on the
National Council of Pax Christi USA, the national Catholic peace movement.
At ODU, she teaches college writing and seminars in the Core curriculum.
Killian, Ann. 鈥淓xperiencing Theological Education in Vowed Religious Life鈥� in At This Time: Dialogues
in Theological Education (TEBT), edited by Corwin Malcolm Davis and Ted A. Smith.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2025 (forthcoming).
Killian, Ann. 鈥淐aring for Creation in Julian of Norwich鈥檚 Parable of the Lord and Servant.鈥� Spiritus:
A Journal of Christian Spirituality 24, no. 2 (Fall 2024): 232-48.
Killian, Ann. 鈥淟yric Anonymity: Songs of Love and Pastoral Care in Lambeth 853.鈥� Speculum: A Journal
of Medieval Studies 99, no. 4 (Oct. 2024): 1097-1115.
Killian, Ann. 鈥淧rison Reform and COVID-19.鈥� Messy Jesus Business, Sept. 28, 2022. <>.
Killian, Annie. 鈥淣ew Light in Old Darkness: Why the Middle Ages matter more than ever.鈥� Notre Dame Magazine, July 19, 2022. <>.
Killian, Ann. 鈥淪isters on the Move.鈥� Commonweal Magazine, Nov. 13, 2021. <>.
Killian, Ann. 鈥淣o Justice, No Peace.鈥� Commonweal Magazine, June 17, 2020. <>.
Killian, Ann. 鈥淟istening for Lyric Voice in Sermon Verses and The Book of Margery Kempe.鈥� Studies
in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 221-47.
Killian, Ann. 鈥淢enacing Books: The Prick of Conscience and the Rhetoric of Reproof.鈥� The Yearbook
of Langland Studies 31 (2017): 1-37.
