Educated at Harvard and Stanford, Bernadette Waterman Ward is Associate Professor of English at the University of Dallas. She is the author of Eliot’s Angels
George Eliot, René Girard, and Mimetic Desire (forthcoming, University of Notre Dame Press) and World as Word: Philosophical Theology in Gerard Manley Hopkins. President of the St. John Henry Newman Association, and a board member for more than two decades, she has written numerous articles on Newman; on the board of scholars for the Hopkins Quarterly, she writes frequently on Hopkins. She is president of Phi Beta Kappa, Eta of Texas. She is also on the board of University Faculty for Life, and in that capacity has published on more recent literature. She has published one drama, The Crack in the Door.
