Mary Aquinas Devlin | |
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Born | (1891-01-27)January 27, 1891 Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
Died | May 14, 1966(1966-05-14) (aged 75) Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. |
Occupation | Religious studies scholar |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | The date of the C-version of Piers the Plowman (1925) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Religious studies |
Sub-discipline | Thomas Brinton |
Institutions | |
Mary Aquinas Devlin OP (January 27, 1891 – May 14, 1966) was an American Dominican academic who was Professor of English at Rosary College from 1928 until her death. A Guggenheim Fellow, she was a scholar on medieval Bishop of Rochester Thomas Brinton.
Biography
Devlin was born on January 27, 1891, in Denver, Colorado. She was the daughter of James and Ellen Devlin, both born in Wisconsin to Irish-born parents. In 1912, she received her BA at Saint Clara College. She later moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin, and she received her MA at University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1914 and worked as a teacher at Sacred Heart Academy (1912–14, 1915–18) and at St. Clara Female Academy (1918–21).
After briefly returning to Saint Clara College to work as an instructor in English (1921–1922), Devlin returned to the Midwest to work at Rosary College; there, she was Associate Professor of English until 1928, when she was promoted to Professor, serving until her death. She was also head of the College's Department of English some time in 1930. In 1925, while working at Rosary College, she received her PhD at the nearby University of Chicago. Her dissertation was titled The date of the C-version of Piers the Plowman.
In 1930, Devlin was appointed as a Guggenheim Fellow to spend twelve months in England studying Thomas Brinton's life and legacy and editing his sermons. She published two academic articles on Brinton's sermons. She was the editor of both of Camden Series volumes of The Sermons of Thomas Brinton, Bishop of Rochester, 1373-1389 (volumes 85 and 86), published in 1954.
Devlin died on May 14, 1966, in Dubuque, Iowa. Her mass was held at the Sinsinawa Motherhouse in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, on May 17.
References
- ^ "Sister Mary Aquinas Devlin, O.P." John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 7, 2023.
- ^ "Former Kenoshan is Accorded Honor". Kenosha News. March 28, 1930. Retrieved December 7, 2023.
- "1900 United States Federal Census: Roll 119; Page 1; Enumeration District 0102". Ancestry.com. Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com LLC. 1900. Retrieved December 7, 2023.
- ^ "Sister Mary Aquinas". Chicago Tribune. May 16, 1966. Retrieved December 7, 2023.
- Register of Doctors of Philosophy of the University of Chicago, June 1893-June 1927. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1927. p. 51. Retrieved December 7, 2023.
- Devlin, Mary Aquinas (1939). "Bishop Thomas Brunton and His Sermons". Speculum. 14 (3): 324–344. doi:10.2307/2848600. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2848600. S2CID 163899918.
- Devlin, Mary Aquinas (1936). "The Chronology of Bishop Brunton's Sermons". PMLA. 51 (1): 300–302. doi:10.2307/458328. ISSN 0030-8129. JSTOR 458328. S2CID 163823383.
- "CAMDEN THIRD SERIES (1900 – 1963)" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. p. 8. Retrieved December 7, 2023.
- 1891 births
- 1966 deaths
- Santa Clara University alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- University of Chicago alumni
- Writers from Denver
- People from Kenosha, Wisconsin
- American Dominicans
- Dominican University (Illinois) faculty
- American literary editors
- American women editors
- American writers of Irish descent
- American medievalists
- American women medievalists
- Historians of the Catholic Church