Bernadette Waterman Ward earned her PhD from Stanford University. Her research interests
include Gerard Manley Hopkins and John Henry Newman.
She was tenured at the State University of New York before admiration for the Core
Curriculum brought her to the 吃瓜网 in 2000. She has written World as Word: Philosophical Theology in Gerard Manley Hopkins (Catholic University of America, 2002) and Eliot鈥檚 Angels: George Eliot, Rene Girard, and Mimetic Desire (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022) and dozens of articles on both nineteenth-century
British writers and twentieth-century Americans. She is on the editorial board of
The Hopkins Quarterly. She is a member of the board of directors for both the St John Henry Newman Association
and University Faculty for Life. She also enjoys hiking and mountaineering with her
husband and children.
Education
- A.B. Harvard University
- PhD Stanford University
Courses Taught
- Literary Tradition I, II, III, IV
- English Romanticism
- Hopkins and Philosophy
- Literary Study II: Prose Fiction
- Newman and His Circle
- Hopkins and His Circle
- Introduction to Literary Study
- Romantic and Victorian Literature
- George Eliot
Publications
鈥沦补肠谤补尘别苍迟补濒颈迟测,鈥� Hopkins in Context, ed. Martin DuBois, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Pending 鈥淪ong at Nightfall: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Holy Hope鈥� ch. 21 in The Imagination鈥檚 Journey to God: A Handbook of Literary Apologetics forthcoming from De Gruyter Press.
鈥淣urture and the Machine: Willful Delusion in Klara and the Sun,鈥� Life and Learning XXXII, Proceedings of the Thirty-Second University Faculty for Life Conference (2023), ed. J.D. Flanagan, 97-107.
鈥淐atholic Bishops Fail in Defending Conscience,鈥� lead article in Public Discourse, March 15, 2022 https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/03/81159/.
鈥淧oet of Pregnancy: Anna Laetitia Barbauld鈥� Life and Learning XXXI Proceedings of the Thirty-first University Faculty for Life Conference, ed. Joseph Koterski (2021) 113-130.
鈥淎 Word on 鈥楢 Word in Season,鈥欌�� A Word in Season 1:1. December 2020, 8-15.
鈥淟ife and Truth in Ishiguro鈥檚 Never Let Me Go,鈥� Life and Learning XXX, (2020) ed. Joseph Koterski, 139-156.
鈥淛ohn Henry Newman (1801-90 CE) at the Palazzo di Propaganda Fide, Basilica de Sant鈥橝ndrea delle Fratte, and the Chiesa de S. Giorgio in Velabro.鈥� People and Places of the Roman Past: the Educated Traveller鈥檚 Guide, ed. Peter Hatlie (Kalamazoo and London: ARC Humanities Press, 2018) 159-172.
鈥樷赌�Them there sort:鈥� The Disabled in the Fiction of Flannery O鈥機onnor, Life and Learning XXIX, Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth University Faculty for Life Conference, ed. Joseph Koterski, 253-261.
鈥淕erard Manley Hopkins and Ruskin鈥檚 Idea of the Christian Artist,鈥� Religion and the Arts 22 (2018) 445-467.
" 'Crimes of Inaction:' Death by Neglect in George Eliot's Novels," Life and Learning XXVI: Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth University Faculty for Life Conference. 2017, 107-116.
"Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Blessed Virgin Mary," St Austin Review, July-August 2018.
鈥淪uicide, Shakespeare and Sloth,鈥� Life and Learning XXV, 2017, 229-241.
鈥淓vang茅lisation et assentiment vivant chez John Henry Newman鈥�, Etudes Newmaniennes, Paris: Association Fran莽aise des Amis de Newman, 31 (2015), pp. 179-193.
鈥淛ocasta and the Sin of Thebes,鈥� Life and Learning XXIII (2013), 101-112 (copyright 2017).
鈥淗opkins鈥檚 Heroic Women,鈥� The Hopkins Quarterly XXXIX, 1-2 (Winter-Spring, 2012) 26-36.
鈥淐补濒濒颈蝉迟补 and the Hunger for God in the Empire,鈥� Louvain Studies 35 (2011) 367-383.
鈥淲ord, Sacrament and the Divine Lover: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Emily Dickinson鈥� in The Prospect of Lyric, ed. Bainard Cowan, intr. Louise Cowan (Dallas: The Dallas Institute Press, 2011) 171-198.
鈥淣ewman e quel III secolo cosi e simile a oggi: Una riletura del romanzo Callista鈥� L鈥橭sservatore Romano, Edizione Quotidiana (31 Diciember 2010) 4. (Translation and condensation of 鈥淣ewman the Novelist: Callista and the Hunger for God in the Empire鈥�).
鈥淣ewman the Novelist: Callista and the Hunger for God in the Empire鈥� L鈥橭sservatore Romano, 2010 Weekly Edition in English 49 ( 8 December 2010) 14-15.
Performance and Readings of Dramatic and Poetic Works
Upon the Children, full length drama (92 minutes) dramatic reading at the 33rd University Faculty for Life Conference, Post 鈥揜oe: Policy Considerations, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Minnesota, June 3, 2023.
鈥淭he Cryosphere,鈥濃�� 鈥淎thabasca Valley 1: Insides鈥�; 鈥淯pon a Rock,鈥濃�� 鈥淭he Physicist,鈥� For Every Time, a Season, Eighth Annual Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts, 吃瓜网, March 4, 2022.
鈥淒ecember Invitation,鈥� 鈥淧lague of Crickets,鈥� at The Dead Poets鈥� Laureate, The Writer鈥檚 Guild of St. John, November 18, 2019.
鈥淧lague of Crickets,鈥� 鈥淭wenty Below at Table Mountain,鈥� 鈥淎 Cattlewoman Speaks of Animal Rights,鈥� 鈥淪huksan: Betrothal,鈥� 鈥淩ider on a White Horse,鈥� Poetry reading at Sixth Annual Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts, The World is Bare Now: Nature and Human Flourishing, 吃瓜网, November 15, 2019.
鈥淯pon a Rock,鈥� 鈥淎thabasca Valley 1: Insides鈥�; 鈥淭wenty Below at Table Mountain,鈥� 鈥淭he Cryosphere鈥� and 鈥淭he Physicist鈥� performed at Bones Risen: A Poetry Reading at the Conference on Christianity and Literature, 吃瓜网, September 14, 2019.
A Time of Fire, revival, full production, dir. Hope Waterman, 吃瓜网, March 23, 2018.
The Crack in the Door, staged reading of full-length play, University Faculty for Life Conference, June8-9 , 2018, 吃瓜网
Lecture and Conference Papers
Respondent to a paper on Thomas Carlyle and Rene Girard, Braniff Conference on the Liberal Arts, October 27, 2023.
鈥淭he 吃瓜网 Core Curriculum,鈥� invited presentation to an intercollegiate study group of Jesuits, St. Rita鈥檚 campus, Dallas, Texas, October 1, 2023.
鈥淚nternal Exiles: One Poor Scruple, a Neglected Victorian Women鈥檚 Novel,鈥� at Aliens and Allies: 2023 Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, September 21, 2023.
鈥淭he Context of the Bishops鈥� Unease about Newman鈥檚 University,鈥� Victorian Religion in England and Ireland, Keogh-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, September 8, 2023
鈥淣ewman鈥檚 Ideal Mentor, St. Cyprian,鈥� Integrity, Authenticity and Mentorship: St. John Henry Newman, In Honor of Fr. John T. Ford, CSC, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC August 3-5, 2023.
鈥淪ongs at Nightfall: Hopkins and Holy Hope,鈥� Literary Apologetics Online Conference, June 7-8, 2023.
鈥淔rom Hegel to Google by way of Callista,鈥� Newman & Literary Studies Symposium, February 20-21, 2023, Institute of Theology and Liberal Arts, St. Mary鈥檚 University, Twickenham, England.
鈥�Eliot鈥檚 Angels鈥� Book Launch lecture at the 吃瓜网, Irving, Texas, October 3, 2022.
鈥淣ewman against Nineteenth-Century Distortions of the Idea of Conscience,鈥� Newman and the Interior Life, St. John Henry Newman Association Conference, Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, Indiana, Aug. 6, 2022.
鈥淣urture and the Machine: Wilful Delusion in Klara and the Sun,鈥� at Attacks on Human Life: Recent Crises and the Long View, Thirty-Second Conference of the University Faculty for Life, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame Indiana, June 11, 2022
鈥淟essons from Katsuo Ishiguro on Nurture and Machinery,鈥� Opening Address at Second
Annual Old Mill Symposium, Irving, Texas, April 8, 2022.
鈥淒ante, Newman and the Way out of Hell,鈥� keynote address at The Good Life, Braniff Undergraduate Conference, 吃瓜网, February 5, 2022.
鈥淕irard, Ishiguro and the Mimetic Crisis in Education,鈥� invited lecture at Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute: Christianity and Scholarship, Southern Methodist University, Nov. 30, 2021
鈥淎rtistic Integrity in 鈥淸The times are nightfall]鈥� and the Terrible Sonnets,鈥� Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Northeastern State University, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, October 16, 2021.
鈥淣ewman Now,鈥� Presidential Address at St. John Henry Newman Association Conference, The Hour of the Laity, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, July 29, 2021.
鈥淗uman Freedom in Mimesis as Revealed in George Eliot鈥� at COVR Online Conference Sponsored by Purdue University, July 7-12, 2021.
鈥淕erontius in Time of Plague,鈥� Newman Association of America Online Conference, August 2020.
鈥淕erard Manley Hopkins and Aesthetics,鈥� Guest lecture in Cindy Nielson 鈥榮 course in Aesthetics, 吃瓜网 Philosophy department, Irving, TX Feb. 14, 2020
鈥溾�橧 am Near to Death鈥�: The Dream of Gerontius,鈥� Institute of Catholic Culture Webinar,
April 6, 2020, Zoom presentation
鈥淟ife and Truth in Ishiguro鈥檚 Never Let Me Go, 鈥淯niversity Faculty for Life online Conference, June 2020
鈥淗ow Newman Learned to Consult the Faithful,鈥� at A Celebration of St. John Henry Newman, 吃瓜网, November 19, 2019.
鈥淣ewman and the Problem of Academic Freedom,鈥� Ideas of a University: Newman Association of America Conference, Holy Cross University, New Orleans Aug1-4, 2019.
鈥溾�橳hem there sort鈥�: The Disabled in the Fiction of Flannery O鈥機onnor.鈥� University Faculty for Life Conference, June 6-7 2019, Mundelein, IL
鈥淐harged with the Grandeur of God: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Ecological Subsidiarity,鈥� Earth Day Lecture sponsored by Environmental Conservation Organization, Gupta College of Business, April 23, 2019.
"Against Irrationalism: Newman and C.S. Lewis,鈥� Newman Association of America Conference, Newman and Twentieth Century Thinkers, Benedictine College, Atchison Kansas, July 31, 2018.