Quinn, Mary Bernetta

Sister Bernetta Quinn was born on 19 September 1915 in Lake Geneva, Wisc. She received a B.A degree from the College of St. Teresa in 1942, an M.A. from the Catholic University of America in 1944, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1952. She has taught on the elementary and high school levels, as well as at colleges, including the College of Saint Teresa, Allen University, Norfolk State University, and Saint Andrews Presbyterian College.

An accomplished poet in her own right, Sister Bernetta's two primary areas of scholarship are the Catholic Church and modernist poetry, especially the life and work of Ezra Pound and Randall Jarrell. Among her publications are Ezra Pound: An Introduction to the Poetry; Give Me Souls: A Life of Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val; The Metamorphic Tradition in Modern Poetry; To God Alone the Glory: A Life of Saint Bonaventure; Randall Jarrell; and Dancing in Stillness, a book of poems. Her scholarly articles and poems have appeared in the PMLA, Shenandoah; Contemporary Literature; College English ; and the Sewanee Review .

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