Dr Anne Pender
Senior Lecturer, School of Arts
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (ANU), GradDip (Macquarie), EdM (Harvard), PhD (UNSW)
Contact
| Email: | anne.pender@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG4 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3248 (or +61 2 6773 3248 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
Anne Pender completed her BA (Hons) at the ANU. Her doctoral research was on Christina Stead and her master’s degree in Education was completed at Harvard University. She has worked in the Australian publishing industry as an editor, as a member of a research team at the Harvard Family Research Project and at the Australian National Dictionary Centre at ANU.
Areas of Teaching
Anne has taught Australian Literature at the Australian Defence Force Academy, at the Australian National University, and held a lecturership at King's College, London, in 2002-3. At UNE she is involved in teaching in a variety of English Literature and Theatre Studies units.
Research interests
Anne’s main interest's are in Australian modern and contemporary literature and theatre.
Anne is the author of Christina Stead: Satirist, published in 2002 by Common Ground Publishing, Altona, Victoria and the following articles and reviews.
Current Projects
Anne is co-editing a book with Susan Lever about Nick Enright to be published in 2008 by Rodopi, Amsterdam, as part of the Australian Playwights Series.
She is working on a major study of the life and work of Barry Humphries, funded by the Australian Research Council.
Anne is also a member of a research team working on another ARC-funded project entitled 'Reverse Diaspora: Australian Expatriate Writers in Britain Since the 1830s'. The other team members are Professor Bruce Bennett (UNSW-ADFA) and Dr Ian Henderson (King's College, London)
Publications
2009 "The Rude Rudiments of Satire‚: Barry Humphries‚ Humour", A Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour, ed. Peter Kirkpatrick and Fran de Groen, UQP, pp. 189-201.
2008 "Nick Enright: A Life in Theatre", Nick Enright: An Actor's Playwright. ed Anne Pender and Susan Lever, Amsterdam/New York, pp. 17-26.
2008 "Summer Rain: Sweet Nostalgia", (co-authored with Susan Lever) Nick Enright: An Actor's Playwright. ed Anne Pender and Susan Lever, Amsterdam/New York, pp. 173-184.
2007 "Modernist Madonnas: Dororthy Todd, Madge Garland and Virginia Woolf", in Women's History Review, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 519-533,
2006 "Nick Enright", in Australian Writers 1975-2000, ed. Selina Samuels, Bruccoli Clark Layman, Detroit, USA, pp. 82-87,
2006 "Men of the past? Barry Humphries and Australian Masculinity", in What a Man's Gotta Do? Masculinities in Performance, eds A. Kiernander, J. Bollen, B. Parr, CALLTS (Centre for Australian Language, Literature, Theatre and Screen Studies), University of New England, Armidale, NSW, pp. 87-105,
2005 "The Mythical Australian: Barry Humphries, Gough Whitlam, and 'New Nationalism'", in AJPH (Australian Journal of Politics and History), Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 67-78,
2005 "'Phrases between Us': The Poetry of Anna Wickham", in Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 229-244,
2004 "'Scorched Earth', Washington and the missing manuscript of Christina Stead's I'm Dying Laughing", in Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 235-250,
2004 "Bound and Dangerous Review Essay on Anna Wickham: A Poet's Daring Life", in Times Literary Supplement, 13 February 2004, pp. 11,
2003 "Lethal Humour: Nick Garland, Barry Humphries and the Adventures of Barry McKenzie", , Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London,
2003 "The Business of Friendship: Cyrilly Abels' Letters to Christina Stead", in Southerly, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 88-98,
2001 "No More Please: Barry Humphries and Australian English", in Journal of Australian Studies, Vol. 68, No. 2001, pp. 160-166,