Jeanne Knoerle

Sister Jeanne Knoerle, S.P., is an author, educator and theologian. A Roman Catholic Religious Sister, she is a member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana from 1968-1983. Other posts have been with the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (board chair, 1979-80) and with the Lilly Endowment.

Knoerle has participated in projects with Monastic Interreligious Dialogue^[1] and initiated the Brookland Commission, an inquiry beginning in 1988 into the place of intellectual life among communities of women religious.^[2]

Works

• The Dream of the Red Chamber: A Critical Study (1972)

As contributor

• National Congress on Church-Related Colleges and Universities, Church and College: A Vital Partnership: Volume 4: Exchange (1980)
• Deedy, John, ed. The Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century: Renewing and Reimaging the City of God (2001)
• Schier, Tracy, ed. and Cynthia Russet, ed. Catholic Women's Colleges in America (2002)
• Sisters of Providence, Love, Mercy, and Justice: A Book of Practices of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana (2006)

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