Associate Professor Trisha Pender
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci (English and Writing)
- Email:patricia.j.pender@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 5369
Women, words and writing
Traversing the genteel palaces of 16th century England through to the supernatural Hellmouth of 21st century Sunnydale, Dr Trisha Pender is challenging assumptions regarding the roles of women as cultural influencers and producers.
Having published two books, co-edited a third, and close to finishing her fourth, Trisha is leading the charge in the expanding international field of research into early modern women’s writing, with a sideline interest in gender and popular culture.
In her latest book, I’m Buffy and You’re History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism (I. B. Tauris, 2016) Trisha explores one of the most widely analyzed texts of contemporary popular culture, particularly investigating its gender and feminist politics.
Trisha completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney, before a Fulbright scholarship took her to the USA, where she spent 12 years earning her doctorate at Stanford and teaching as an Assistant Professor at Pace University in New York City.
Upon returning to Australia to take up a five-year UON Research Fellowship in 2007, Trisha and Associate Professor Rosalind Smith initiated the Early Modern Women’s Research Network (EMWRN), which has continued to gain momentum and global recognition since its inception in 2007.
Trisha has matched her prodigious publication history with funding wins, having attracted more than $1 million in grants since arriving at Newcastle.
The Rhetoric of Modesty
Trisha explains that the term ‘early modern’ is preferable to ‘Renaissance’ to identify the era of focus in which she is a research leader.
Where the term ‘Renaissance’ has been used in the past to signal the ideological triumph of an elite group of Protestant men, ‘early modern’ places the period in a longer historical perspective, and includes the concerns of marginalised groups such as women, the working classes, and religious and racial minorities.
"Early modern takes away that triumphal rhetoric; it then becomes a more historicist perspective."
Assisted by funding from UON and the Australian Academy of Humanities, Trisha published her first book, Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Palgrave) in 2012.
“It was basically a book length argument against people reading early modern women writers too literally,” Trisha explains.
“Women in that period were constantly apologising for not being good enough, and not really being a poet or writer, just a woman.”
“We don't believe Milton when he says ‘I'm unworthy to write this poem!’ and then he writes Paradise Lost.”
“My argument is it that feminine modesty is just a trope.”
Material Cultures
Broadening scope to include the activity and influences surrounding early modern women’s writing, in 2012 Trisha and Rosalind Smith lead a group of international EMWRN scholars on an ARC Grant project to investigate Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing: Editing, Reception and Mediation.
By studying material cultures, the team focused not so much on the authors and their biographies but on what they wrote and how it was disseminated. Part of the project is researching the history of the book.
"We looked at the production, transmission and reception of the work. How was it produced in print? How was it circulated? How have these been received?"
Trisha explains that this project aimed to transform early modern book history by considering agents and forms of literary labour that have previously been deemed marginal to the discipline as a whole.
"In doing so, we challenge and refine categories of authorship that have been defined in almost exclusively masculine terms, providing a more complete and historically nuanced account of authorial institutions crucial to the future of early modern literary studies."
Institutions of Authorship
With the aid of another sizeable ARC Discovery grant, Trisha is investigating early modern women’s roles in publishing, extraneous to writing, in even greater depth. Her third book will focus on this topic, Early Modern Women and Institutions of Authorship.
“I am looking at women not so much as writers, but as patrons and translators and editors," Trisha says.
“It's all those, what I call, “extra-authorial” tasks. That has opened up to me this really interesting world of women who are cultural producers that influence the culture in interesting ways.”
Trisha explains that there is a surprising amount of preserved historical material relevant to this topic, and that she is even discovering resources that have not yet been subject to scholarly analysis.
Some of her findings challenge the assumptions of previous generations of feminist scholarship.
“I decided to focus on the early modern period because I didn't want to just reinforce my own ideas about gender; I wanted to challenge that with historical difference.”
Dissecting the Slayer
The fictional adventures of Buffy the Vampire Slayer began with the movie’s release in 1992. Director Joss Whedon resurrected, relocated, and remodelled Buffy for the television series of the same name, first airing in 1997 and continuing until 2003.
Trisha admits to being fascinated with all things Slayer from the outset.
“I think I first fell in love with the show because it was about the struggle to remain human when you are fighting the bad guys all the time.”
“I love Buffy because she is a fighter. My book is about how it is a feminist TV show, it is about fighting against injustice.”
“Watching Buffy kick ass is a very vicarious thrill because those of us who are fighting social injustice normally don't get such spectacular results,” Trisha says, laughing.
But this book is no fangirl tribute to Buffy. Trisha also identifies problematic elements within the show, such as, “a blonde middle class American white girl saying to the rest of the world this is how you become empowered.”
The essays within Trisha’s book examine the Slayer’s postmodern politics, her position as a third wave feminist icon, her placing of masculinity in extremis, and her fandom and legacy in popular culture.
Humanities for Humans
Challenging perspectives and reviewing traditional outcomes of the study of humanity and its cultures is the impetus behind Trisha’s involvement in the UON’s new Centre for 21st Century Humanities.
“I am interested in how the Centre might make humanities research accessible to the public, by trying to make research in the humanities relevant to real people.”
“I like to think of it as humanities for humans, rather than humanities for academics.”
“The Centre is obviously very academically rigorous and does fantastic work, but this is my particular interest in its potential.”
It is this interest in reaching, and empowering, regular humans that also fires Trisha’s passion for teaching.
“One of the reasons I wanted to go into academia is that giving people the tools to fight back against power is part of teaching.”
“It is that attitude of privilege and elitism that my work, both the early modern work and the postmodern work, is arguing against.”
Ever humble, Trisha credits her own success to consistency and good fortune more than talent.
“I work hard because I love it, and I think it is a privilege to be able to do what I do. That privilege is an onus on me to do it well.”
Women, words and writing
Dr Patricia Pender is a Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle, has active research interests in early modern literature, feminist literary history
Career Summary
Biography
Patricia Pender is a Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Palgrave 2012) and the co-editor, with Sarah C. E. Ross and Rosalind Smith, of Early Modern Women and the Apparatus of Authorship, a special issue of Parergon (December, 2012). She has previously published essays on Anne Askew, Mary Sidney, and Anne Bradstreet in journals such as Women’s Writing, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and Huntington Library Quarterly and currently coordinates, with Rosalind Smith, a three-year Australian Research Council project on the Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (2012-2014) Patricia has active research interests in early modern literature, feminist literary history and theory, and contemporary popular culture. In addition to her early modern scholarship, she has published monograph and a number of essays on the cult television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Qualifications
- PhD, Stanford University
Keywords
- Australian popular culture
- Early modern literature and culture
- Feminist theory
- Gender and popular culture
- Literature and adaptation
- Women writers 1500-1800
- Women's literary history
Fields of Research
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360505 | Screen media | 20 |
470504 | British and Irish literature | 80 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
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Associate Professor | University of Newcastle School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci Australia |
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/7/2007 - 2/7/2007 | Fellow UON | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (5 outputs)
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2018 | PENDER P, Bibliophilic, Slow Loris, Newcastle (2018) [J1] | ||||
2017 | Pender P, Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women s Collaboration, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, 291 (2017) | ||||
2016 | Pender P, I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism, I.B.Tauris, London, 256 (2016) [A1] | Nova | |||
2014 | Pender PJ, Smith R, Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, 232 (2014) [A3] | Nova | |||
2012 |
Pender PJ, Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 232 (2012) [A1]
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Chapter (19 outputs)
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2022 |
Pender P, 'GIFTS THAT MATTER: Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth, and the Prayers or Meditations (1545)', The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK 501-516 (2022) [B1]
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2019 |
Pender P, 'Patterns of print: women's textual patronage in the "early" early modern period', Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World, Routledge, London 88-103 (2019) [B1]
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2018 |
Pender PJ, 'The Critical Fortunes of the Tenth Muse: Canonicity and its Discontents', A History of Early Modern Women's Writing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 66-82 (2018) [B1]
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2017 |
Pender PJ, '"A veray patronesse": Margaret Beaufort and the early English printers', Gender, Authorship and Early Modern Women s Collaboration, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland 219-243 (2017) [B1]
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2017 |
Pender PJ, Day A, 'Introduction: Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women s Collaboration', Gender, Authorship and Early Modern Women s Collaboration, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland 1-19 (2017) [B1]
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2016 |
Smith RL, Pender P, 'Editing early modern women in the digital age', Editing Early Modern Women, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 255-269 (2016) [B1]
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2014 | Pender PJ, 'Dispensing Quails, Mincemeat, Leaven: Katherine Parr s Patronage of the Paraphrases of Erasmus', Material Cultures of Early Modern Women s Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 36-54 (2014) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
2014 | Pender PJ, Smith R, 'Introduction: Early Modern Women s Texts: Production, Transmission and Reception', Material Cultures of Early Modern Women s Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 1-13 (2014) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
2013 | Pender PJ, Smith R, 'Afterword: Reading early modern women and the poem', Early Modern Women and the Poem, Manchester University Press, Manchester 244-252 (2013) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
2013 | Pender PJ, 'Rethinking authorial reluctance in the paratexts to Anne Bradstreet's poetry', Early Modern Women and the Poem, Manchester University Press, Manchester 165-180 (2013) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
2010 | Pender PJ, 'Andrew and the homoerotics of evil', Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon. New Essays, McFarland & Company, Inc, Jefferson 93-105 (2010) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
2010 | Pender PJ, 'Between 'Sygne' and 'Substance': Rhetorics of figurality in the 'Examinations of Anne Askew'', Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women's Writing, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne 222-233 (2010) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
2009 | Pender PJ, 'The third wave feminism suite', The World is a Text: Writing, Reading and Thinking About Visual and Popular Culture, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 448-458 (2009) [B2] | Nova | ||||||
2007 |
Pender P, ''Kicking ass is comfort food' buffy as third wave feminist icon', Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration 224-236 (2007) [B1]
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2004 |
Pender P, ''Kicking ass is comfort food': Buffy as third wave feminist icon', Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration 164-174 (2004)
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Journal article (17 outputs)
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2023 |
Karageorgos E, Boyle A, Pender P, Cook J, 'Perpetration, victimhood and blame: Australian newspaper representations of domestic violence, 2000-2020', Violence Against Women: an international and interdisciplinary journal, (2023) [C1]
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2017 | Wilcox RV, Abbott S, Adams M, Bloustien G, Buckman AR, Burkhead C, et al., 'Buffy 20 years on', Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, 15 n.p.-n.p. (2017) | ||||||||||
2017 | Wilcox RV, Abbott S, Adams M, Bloustien G, Buckman AR, Burkhead C, et al., 'Buffy 20 years on', Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, 15 n.p.-n.p. (2017) | ||||||||||
2015 |
Pender P, 'Constructing a Canonical Colonial Poet: Abram E. Cutter's Bradstreetiana and the 1867 Works', PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 109 223-246 (2015)
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2014 |
Pender PJ, 'Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry, and Culture, 1640-1680', The Review of English Studies: the leading journal of English literature and language, 65 933-935 (2014) [C3]
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2014 |
Kinder E, Pender P, 'A copy of a copy of a copy: Framing the double in fight club', Literature-Film Quarterly, 42 541-556 (2014) [C1]
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2013 |
Pender PJ, 'Abram E. Cutter's Archive of Bradstreetiana in the Boston Public Library', Notes and Queries, 60 268-269 (2013) [C3]
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2012 |
Pender PJ, 'Framing the reformation woman writer: John Bale's prefaces to Anne Askew's Examinations', Parergon, 29 29-45 (2012) [C1]
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2012 |
Pender PJ, Smith RL, 'From paratext to epitext: Mapping the authorial apparatus in early modern women's writing', Parergon, 29 193-201 (2012) [C1]
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2012 | Ross SCE, Pender PJ, Smith RL, 'Guest editorial: Early modern women and the apparatus of authorship', Parergon, 29 (2012) [C6] | ||||||||||
2011 | Pender PJ, 'Remapping Early Modern Religious Literature [book review]', Huntington Library Quarterly, 74 353-358 (2011) [C3] | ||||||||||
2011 |
Pender PJ, 'The ghost and the machine in the Sidney family corpus', Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 51 65-85 (2011) [C1]
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2011 |
Pender P, 'Remapping Early Modern Religious Literature', HUNTINGTON LIBRARY QUARTERLY, 74 353-358 (2011)
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2010 |
Pender PJ, 'Reading Bale Reading Anne Askew: Contested Collaboration in The Examinations', Huntington Library Quarterly, 73 507-522 (2010) [C1]
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2009 |
Pender PJ, 'The perfect electrometer: Dorothy Wordsworth's Lover's discourse', Australian Humanities Review, 67-84 (2009) [C1]
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2001 |
Pender P, 'Competing conceptions: Rhetorics of representation in aphra behn's oroonoko', Women's Writing, 8 457-472 (2001) This article examines the gendered and racialised dimensions of Aphra Behn's rhetorics of representation. It argues that Behn's ambivalent deployment of colonial rhetori... [more] This article examines the gendered and racialised dimensions of Aphra Behn's rhetorics of representation. It argues that Behn's ambivalent deployment of colonial rhetoric, particularly the discourses of sexual and racial difference, provides an important context for understanding her text's negotiation of generic categories such as romance, realism and True History, and her narrator's professions of textual fidelity and authority. The ¿New World Woman¿ figures in this analysis as both a meta-critical abstraction against which Behn measures her text's achievement, and as a central character in the drama of the novel. The author compares the role played by Aphra Behn, as the white, educated, bourgeois narrator, with that played by Imoinda, Oroonoko's African bride and fellow slave in the Indian colony of Surinam. Exploring the implicit struggle that is staged between the two women over the possibilities of ¿reproducing¿ Oroonoko, it is suggested that Behn pits her miscegenated and marketable text against the reproductive capacities of Imoinda's body. © 2001 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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Conference (4 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2010 | Pender PJ, ''This triall of my slender skill': Aemilia Lanyer's Inexpressibility Topoi', Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2010, Venice, Italy (2010) [E3] | ||
2009 | Pender PJ, 'Anne Bradstreet's Rhetoric of reluctance in the prefatory apparatus to The tenth muse', Abstracts for Early Modern Women and Poetry Conference, London, UK (2009) [E3] | ||
2009 | Pender PJ, 'Reading Bale reading Askew: Framing and Interpretation in The Examinations', Sixteenth Century Society and Conference 2009: Program of Events, Geneva, Switzerland (2009) [E3] | ||
2008 | Pender PJ, 'Desperately seeking Dorothy: The 'Perfect Electrometer'', The Art of the Real: National Creative Non-Fiction Conference. Program, Newcastle, NSW (2008) [E3] | ||
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Creative Work (7 outputs)
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2019 | Pender P, Crush, Garden Suburb (2019) | |||
2019 | Pender P, Bath, Garden Suburb (2019) | |||
2019 | Pender P, Tent (2019) | |||
2014 | Pender PJ, From Isabella with contempt; Crosses, Buladelah, NSW (2014) [J2] | |||
2011 | Pender PJ, Australia, Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2011) [J2] | |||
2009 |
Pender PJ, Using shite gifts for academics, OL Society, Melbourne, VIC (2009) [J2]
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Media (1 outputs)
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2017 | Pender P, 'Anne Bradstreet Digital Archive', (2017) |
Other (3 outputs)
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2021 |
Pender P, Cooper S, Harrison L, Joel E, Whittard J, 'Allies of UON overturn Mark Vaile's appointment as Chancellor', NTEU Advocate Magazine ( issue.2 pp.8-8): National Tertiary Education Union (2021)
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2019 | Pender P, '"That is some crafty bite": Trisha Pender Interviews Melinda Bufton', That is some crafty bite : Trisha Pender Interviews Melinda Bufton: Cordite Publishing Inc (2019) | ||||
2017 |
Smith R, Pender P, Pascoe WD, 'Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing Digital Archive', . Newcastle: Center For 21st Century Humanities (2017)
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Thesis / Dissertation (1 outputs)
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2015 |
Pascoe WD, The Strange Potential Of Ordinary Things, University of Newcastle (2015)
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 34 |
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Total funding | $1,699,523 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20222 grants / $5,008
Transforming the early modern archive: the Emmerson Collection at SLV$2,508
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | CHSF - Cash Support |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2022 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Strategic Proposal Support$2,500
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | CHSF - Strategic Proposal Support Scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2022 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20212 grants / $34,265
Transforming the early modern archive: the Emmerson Collection at SLV$31,765
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender, Professor Paul Salzman, Professor Paul Salzman, Prof Ros Smith, Dr Sarah Ross, A/Prof Mitchell Whitelaw, Dr Anna Welch |
Scheme | Linkage Projects |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2021 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
GNo | G2100359 |
Type Of Funding | C1200 - Aust Competitive - ARC |
Category | 1200 |
UON | Y |
City Lights for Social Change$2,500
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | CHSF - Strategic Proposal Support Scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2021 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20205 grants / $181,780
City Lights for Social Change$87,280
Funding body: Newcastle City Council
Funding body | Newcastle City Council |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender, Doctor Kathleen McPhillips, Doctor Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, Doctor Effie Karageorgos, Doctor Jessica Ford, Doctor Kcasey McLoughlin |
Scheme | Special Business Rate – City Centre/Darby Street Program |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2021 |
GNo | G2001185 |
Type Of Funding | C2300 – Aust StateTerritoryLocal – Own Purpose |
Category | 2300 |
UON | Y |
Gender-Based Violence Program (GBVP)$70,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia |
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Project Team | A/Prof Patricia Pender (Lead); Dr Kath McPhillips; Dr Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan; Dr Effie Karageorgos; Dr Kcasy McLoughlin. |
Scheme | Research Programs Pilot Scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2021 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
2020 NEWstar Program$20,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | 2020 NEWstar Program |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | G1901167 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
2020 FEDUA 'Finish that Output' scheme funding$2,500
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | A/Prof T Pender |
Scheme | FEDUA 'Finish that Output' scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Gender Research Network$2,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | A/Prof Patricia Pender (Lead), Dr Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, Dr Xanthe Mallet, Dr Jessica Ford, Dr Kcasey McLoughlin and A/Prof Sara Motta |
Scheme | Strategic Network and Pilot Project Grants Scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20195 grants / $136,246
Faculty matching funding for UON PRC Scheme 2019 - Centre for 21st Century Humanities$100,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr G Arrighi; Dr H Askland; Prof H Craig; Prof Philip Dwyer; A/Prof J Gulddal; A/Prof M Harvey; Prof V Haskins (Director); Prof M Johnson; A/Prof B Palmer; A/Prof T Pender; Prof L Ryan. |
Scheme | Faculty funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2019 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Transforming the early modern archive: the Emmerson Collection at SLV$19,258
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Professor Rosalind Smith, Professor Paul Salzman, Associate Professor Trisha Pender, Mitchell Whitelaw, Anna Welch , Dr Sarah Ross |
Scheme | Linkage Projects |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
GNo | G1800921 |
Type Of Funding | C1200 - Aust Competitive - ARC |
Category | 1200 |
UON | Y |
(i) Hunter Women's Financial Literacy and (ii) 16 days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence$9,988
Funding body: Janet Copley Bequest
Funding body | Janet Copley Bequest |
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Project Team | A/Professor Trisha Pender and Dr Tamara Blakemore |
Scheme | School of Humanities and Social Science - Copley Bequest Pilot Research Fund |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2019 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
Faculty of Education and Arts New Start Grant$5,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | New Start Grants |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2019 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, London, 6 - 7 July 2019$2,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | FEDUA Conference Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2019 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20181 grants / $100,000
Faculty matching funding for UON PRC Scheme - Centre for 21st Century Humanities$100,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr G Arrighi; Dr H Askland; Prof H Craig (Director); Prof P Dwyer; A/Prof J Gulddal; A/Prof M Harvey; Prof V Haskins; Prof M Johnson; Dr B Palmer; A/Prof T Pender; Prof L Ryan; Prof R Smith (Deputy Director). |
Scheme | Faculty funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2018 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20171 grants / $7,954
The Emmerson Collection at State Library Victoria: Australia’s new early modern archive Stage 2$7,954
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Professor Rosalind Smith, Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Linkage Pilot Research Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2017 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | G1701288 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20162 grants / $214,500
Faulty matching funding for UON PRC Scheme 2016/17 - Centre for 21st Century Humanities$200,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Prof Hugh Craig; Prof Lisa Adkins; A/Prof Ros Smith; Prof Roland Boer; Prof Philip Dwyer; Dr Bill Palmer; A/Prof Mark Harvey; Prof Victoria Haskins; Prof Lyndall Ryan; Dr Trisha Pender. |
Scheme | Faulty funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Early Modern Women's Research Network (EMWRN)$14,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | A Prof Ros Smith; Dr Trisha Pender; Ms Alexandra Day; E Prof Paul Salzman; A Prof Kate Lilley; Dr Sarah Ross; Prof Michelle O'Callaghan; Prof Lorna Hutson |
Scheme | FEDUA Strategic Networks and Pilot Projects Scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20151 grants / $9,706
The Emmerson Collection at the State Library of Victoria: the early modern book in Australia$9,706
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Professor Rosalind Smith, Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Linkage Pilot Research Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | G1501167 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20144 grants / $184,309
Early Modern Women and the Institutions of Authorship: Publication, Collaboration, Translation$157,309
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Discovery Projects |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | G1300324 |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | Y |
The Early Modern Wonem's Research Network (EMWRN)$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
---|---|
Project Team | Professor Rosalind Smith, Associate Professor Trisha Pender, Ms Wendy Alexander |
Scheme | Strategic Networks Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2014 |
GNo | G1400958 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
2013 Vice Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence$10,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Award for Research Excellence |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2014 |
GNo | G1301446 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Love's Victory Conference, Penshurst Place, UK, 7-9 June 2014$2,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2014 |
GNo | G1400525 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20131 grants / $20,000
Early Modern Women and the Institutions of Authorship$20,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Near Miss Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2013 |
Funding Finish | 2013 |
GNo | G1300464 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20121 grants / $210,000
The Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing: Editing, Reception and Mediation$210,000
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
---|---|
Project Team | Professor Rosalind Smith, Associate Professor Trisha Pender, Prof Paul Salzman, Dr Kate Lilley, Professor Michelle O'Callaghan, Dr Sarah Ross, Professor Susan Wiseman |
Scheme | Discovery Projects |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2012 |
Funding Finish | 2014 |
GNo | G1100291 |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | Y |
20101 grants / $1,000
Renaissance Society of America, Venice, Italy, 8 - 10 April 2010$1,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2010 |
Funding Finish | 2011 |
GNo | G1000140 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20094 grants / $15,480
Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty$10,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Early Career Researcher Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2009 |
GNo | G0189648 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Early Modern Women's Writing and Rhetoric of Modesty$2,500
Funding body: Australian Academy of the Humanities
Funding body | Australian Academy of the Humanities |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Travelling Fellowship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2010 |
GNo | G0189644 |
Type Of Funding | Grant - Aust Non Government |
Category | 3AFG |
UON | Y |
NEER Research Cluster - Early Modern Womens Writers$1,980
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender, Professor Rosalind Smith |
Scheme | Research Networks |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2009 |
GNo | G0189725 |
Type Of Funding | Scheme excluded from IGS |
Category | EXCL |
UON | Y |
Sixteenth Century Studies conference, Geneva, 28-30 May 2009$1,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2009 |
GNo | G0190237 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20082 grants / $3,700
NEER Research Cluster: Early Modern Women Writers$2,000
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
---|---|
Project Team | Professor Rosalind Smith, Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Research Networks |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0188553 |
Type Of Funding | Scheme excluded from IGS |
Category | EXCL |
UON | Y |
PCACA , San Francisco, USA, 19/3/2008 - 22/3/2008$1,700
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0188598 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20072 grants / $575,575
2007 Research Fellowship$560,575
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Research Fellowship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2007 |
Funding Finish | 2012 |
GNo | G0187114 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
2007 Research Fellowship Project grant$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Trisha Pender |
Scheme | Fellowship Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2007 |
Funding Finish | 2007 |
GNo | G0188108 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | PhD | The Myth of Barbarism: A Creative Deconstruction of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | What's Bella got to do with it? Exploring Representations of, and Motivations for, Love in Stephenie Myer's Twilight Series. | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | Voyeurs in the Flames: A Novella and Exegesis | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | Place of Sea Ferns, River of Coal: An Eco-Memoir of Mulubinba Newcastle | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | The Female Rake - Enlightenment Wits to Contemporary Mavericks | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | A Feminist Thriller? | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | Haunted Housewives, Brides of Terror: The Modern Gothic Romance and the Commodification of Fear | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | PhD | Masculinity and the Representations of Men in Kate Chopin’s Fiction | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | Anne Boleyn's Literary Remains: Attribution, Circulation, Reception | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | Posthuman Others in Twenty-First Century Women's Science Fiction | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | ‘“We reportin you for racism, man, you going down”’: Representing Male Youth in Contemporary British Asian Novels | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | Collaboration and the Early Modern Woman Writer: Materiality, Authorship, Performance | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | The Valentine Wars | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2016 | PhD | Harry Potter and the Specular Selves: the Life and After-life of the Image | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | The Strange Potential of Ordinary Things | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | The Pleasure Narrative: Sexual Agency and Teen Feminism in Young Adult Fiction | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | Trends, Regimes, Collocations, Co-Expressions and Trees: New Methods for Analysing Sequential Aspects of Literacy Language and Literary Data | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2013 | Masters | Unruly Women | M Philosophy (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2013 | PhD | Computational Stylistics, Cognitive Grammar, and the Tragedy of Mariam: Combining Formal and Contextual Approaches in a Computational Study of Early Modern Tragedy | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
News
News • 25 Nov 2021
NUspace and Civic Park light up orange to start 16 Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women
The University of Newcastle’s NUspace building and Civic Park will light up in orange this Thursday to mark the start of the 16 Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women.
News • 20 Nov 2020
EVENT: Newcastle turns orange to challenge violence against women
Civic Park and the University of Newcastle’s NUspace building will light up orange on 25 November as Novocastrians join the international community to confront violence against women in our communities.
News • 6 Mar 2020
Discover the stories behind the stories: Newcastle Writers Festival 2020
With another amazing line up of authors, academics, commentators and journalists, including a wealth from our University, tickets to this year’s Newcastle Writers Festival, on April 3-5, will be in hot demand!
News • 22 Oct 2019
Future research leaders receive funding boost
The inaugural Research Advantage NEWstar program will support 13 aspiring University of Newcastle mid-career researchers to further develop their research leadership skills.
News • 2 Aug 2019
Investing in Women grant to fund financial literacy workshops for Newcastle women
$25,000 funding will help Faculty of Education and Arts researchers develop financial literacy programs for women.
News • 9 Oct 2018
Newcastle’s thriving poetry scene has a brand new publishing series
University of Newcastle researcher and member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities Dr Trisha Pender will publish her first book of poetry this month.
News • 6 Oct 2017
Software success for UoN’s Early Modern Women Research Network
In an acknowledgment of UoN’s research leadership in the field of early modern women’s writing, the Early Modern Women Research Network (EMWRN) has been asked to share their digital archive software with leading Renaissance literature academics at Northwestern University, USA.
News • 4 Jul 2017
Researcher talks Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism
Early modern women’s writing researcher, and author of I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism, Dr Trisha Pender, recently spoke at the Supanova Comic Con and Gaming Expo at the Sydney Showground Olympic Park on June 17.
News • 5 Apr 2017
New network creates cross-disciplinary fusion of gender, generation and culture
The Gender, Generation and Culture research network is a new initiative of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities at the University of Newcastle, led by Centre member Dr Patricia Pender (pictured - English and Writing) with Dr Akane Kanai (Sociology) and Dr Sara Motta (Politics). The new network, which was established in January is designed to link scholars actively engaged with issues of gender, generation, and culture across the university.
News • 22 Mar 2017
Walking through the history of Newcastle's Women
University of Newcastle researchers have uncovered fascinating historical stories highlighting how key female personalities have shaped Newcastle’s history and have shared those stories in an informative and entertaining walk through Newcastle East.
Local historian and University of Newcastle PhD candidate, Jude Conway, led the curated walking tour around Newcastle’s historical East to uncover the rich heritage of women activists, artists and workers.
News • 10 Mar 2017
Leading Shakespeare Scholar wows audience in public lecture
Researchers from the University of Newcastle’s The Centre for 21st Century Humanities and The Early Modern Women’s Research Network were recently treated to an exciting talk by Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor of English Literature, Oxford University.
News • 10 Aug 2016
Buffy and Contemporary Feminism - New book Making News
Dr Trisha Pender's new book, I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism, has been attracting plenty of media attention following its recent UK release.
News • 2 Dec 2013
Research and Supervision Excellence
The winners of the 2013 'Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence' and the 'Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Supervision Excellence' were announced on Monday 2 December. These awards recognise and reward the outstanding calibre of researchers and supervisors we have at the University.
News • 21 Nov 2013
A rising literary star
Dr Patricia Pender, from the Faculty of Education and Arts, is a rising star within the University of Newcastle having recently won a range of grants and awards.
Associate Professor Trisha Pender
Position
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
English and Writing
Contact Details
patricia.j.pender@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4921 5369 |
Office
Room | .143 |
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Building | McMullin Building |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |