Sister Annie Killian, OP, made her perpetual profession of vows as a member of the Dominican Sisters of Peace on Sunday, Aug. 3 in the chapel of the congregation’s Columbus motherhouse.
Her discernment began in 2014. She entered the congregation as a candidate in 2017, joined the novitiate in 2020 and made temporary vows in 2022.
She recently was appointed as an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and will be instructing undergraduate and graduate classes this semester in medieval poetry and drama. She had been an assistant professor of English at Ohio Dominican University (ODU).
Her profession ceremony featured musicians, including Emily Strand, ODU director of campus ministries, and students from Salt and Light, the ODU campus ministry Organization.
The university’s chaplain, Father Dan Millisor, presided at the liturgy, with concelebrants Father Carlos Quijano, OP, motherhouse chaplain, and Father Tony Davis of Columbus St. Josephine Bakhita Parish.
While at ODU, she also was the inaugural public humanities postdoctoral fellow for the Medieval Institute at Notre Dame. She has taught with the Inside Out prison exchange program and the Moreau College Initiative.
She is an elected national council member for Pax Christi USA and a leader and presenter at the Dominican Youth Movement USA’s “Preaching in Action” conferences. She is also a member of the futuring leadership team for the Dominican Sisters Conference and has volunteered with the Kolbe House Jail Ministry, an outreach for men and women after their release from incarceration.
She holds a doctorate and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English language and literature from Yale University and a Master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Oxford.
The Dominican Sisters of Peace have four women in formation for consecrated religious life; two made their temporary vows in late August.
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