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Dr Patricia ( Trisha ) Pender

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Position Research Fellow
School of Humanities and Social Science
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Office 143, McMullin Building

Qualifications

  • PhD, Stanford University, 2004

Research

Research keywords

  • Gender and popular culture
  • Intersections of genre and gender
  • The history and theory of rhetoric

Research expertise

Patricia Pender is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle. She earned her BA (Hons.) from the University of Sydney, and her Ph.D. in English from Stanford University. Her research interests span early modern literature, feminist literary history and theory, and contemporary popular culture. She has published essays on the early modern women writers Aphra Behn and Anne Bradstreet, as well as two essays on Buffy. She is particularly interested in cinematic representations of girls and girlhood and the phenomenon of “third wave” feminism.

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
200599 Literary Studies Not Elsewhere Classified 85
190499 Performing Arts And Creative Writing Not Elsewhere Classified 15

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Teaching

Teaching keywords

  • Early modern literature and culture
  • Feminist literary history and theory
  • Women writers 1500-1800

Teaching interests

Courses Taught

  • Early Modern Women's Writing
  • Seventeenth Century Literature
  • Women in Literature: Jane Austin and Adaptation
  • Bibliomania: Books that Transform You
  • Reacting to the Past: Conflict and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
  • Critical Thinking: Reading Popular Culture
  • Girls on Film: Cultural Studies in Third Wave Feminism
  • Men and Masculinities
  • Clueless and the Classics: Popular Culture and Literary Tradition

Teaching interests

  • Early modern literature and culture
  • Women writers 1500-1800
  • Feminist literary history and theory
  • Early modern book history
  • The history and theory of rhetoric
  • Canon formation
  • Poetry (particularly the Sidney circle)
  • Prose (particularly the discourse of discovery)
  • Intersections of genre and gender
  • Feminist cultural studies
  • Gender and popular culture
  • Gender and popular culture
  • Cinema studies
  • "Girls on Film"
  • Representations of girls and girlhood
  • Contemporary feminist theory
  • "Third wave" feminism
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