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.
Areas of Teaching
English and Theatre Studies, Writing
Research interests
Contemporary Australian literature, theatre and performance; Twentieth century Australian literature, theatre and performance; Writing for television; British modernism
Recent Projects
Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2007-2009 ‘A Study of Australia’s most popular internationally-known comedian, Barry Humphries’
Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2008-2010 ‘Reverse Diaspora: Australian Expatriate Writers in Britain since the 1830’s’
Australian Television Drama
Recent Publications
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,