A/Prof Anne Pender
Associate Professor, 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 joined the academic staff at UNE in 2003 after a two-year period lecturing at King’s College London. She completed her PhD at the UNSW Australian Defence Force Academy, and holds a Master of Education from Harvard University and a BA (First Class Honours) from the ANU. Anne also has extensive experience in publishing.
Affiliations
Australian Research Council Future Fellow
Areas of Teaching
English, Theatre and Performance, and Writing
Research interests
Contemporary Australian literature, theatre and performance; Twentieth century Australian literature, theatre and performance; Writing for television; British modernism
Current Research Project
Anne is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow 2011-2015 and is working on a project on Australian actors ‘Players: The Lives and Work of the Actors Who Created the National Theatre of Australia 1950-2012’.
Recent Projects
Anne was DEEWR Visiting Distinguished Professor in Australian Studies at the University of Copenhagen in 2011-12.
Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2008-2010 ‘Reverse Diaspora: Australian Expatriate Writers in Britain since the 1830’s’
Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2007-2009 ‘A Study of Australia’s most popular internationally-known comedian, Barry Humphries’
Australian Television Drama
Recent Publications
From a Distant Shore: Australian writers in Britain 1820-2012, by Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender, Monash University Publishing January 2013.
One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries, ABC Books, 2010.
Nick Enright: An Actor’s Playwright, co-edited with Susan Lever, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, 2008.
Christina Stead Satirist, Common Ground, Melbourne, 2002.
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,