Mary Aquinas Devlin

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. In 1912, she received her BA at Saint Clara College. 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). She was also head of the College's Department of English some time in 1930.

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.