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. “Experiencing Theological Education in Vowed Religious Life” 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. “Caring for Creation in Julian of Norwich’s Parable of the Lord and Servant.” Spiritus:
A Journal of Christian Spirituality 24, no. 2 (Fall 2024): 232-48.
Killian, Ann. “Lyric Anonymity: Songs of Love and Pastoral Care in Lambeth 853.” Speculum: A Journal
of Medieval Studies 99, no. 4 (Oct. 2024): 1097-1115.
Killian, Ann. “Prison Reform and COVID-19.” Messy Jesus Business, Sept. 28, 2022. <https://messyjesusbusiness.com/2022/09/28/prison-reform-and-covid-19/>.
Killian, Annie. “New Light in Old Darkness: Why the Middle Ages matter more than ever.” Notre Dame Magazine, July 19, 2022. <https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/new-light-in-old-darkness/>.
Killian, Ann. “Sisters on the Move.” Commonweal Magazine, Nov. 13, 2021. <https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/sisters-move>.
Killian, Ann. “No Justice, No Peace.” Commonweal Magazine, June 17, 2020. <https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/no-justice-no-peace>.
Killian, Ann. “Listening for Lyric Voice in Sermon Verses and The Book of Margery Kempe.” Studies
in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 221-47.
Killian, Ann. “Menacing Books: The Prick of Conscience and the Rhetoric of Reproof.” The Yearbook
of Langland Studies 31 (2017): 1-37.
