Professor Anne Pender

Professor Anne Pender
 Position Kidman Chair in Australian Studies
 Org Unit School of Humanities
 Email anne.pender@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone +61 8 8313 4563
 Location Floor/Room 3 ,  Napier ,   North Terrace

  • Biography/ Background

     

    Anne Pender holds the Kidman Chair in Australian Studies and is Director of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. Anne is currently a Chief Investigator on a large ARC Linkage Project entitled Comedy Country: Australian Performance Comedy as an Agent of Change. Anne was National Library of Australia Fellow, 2021, Fulbright Senior Fellow at Harvard University in 2018, and is a former Australian Research Council Future Fellow 2012-2016. A Menzies Scholar to Harvard and graduate of the Australian National University, the University of New South Wales and Harvard University, Anne was Visiting Distinguished Professor in Australian Studies at the University of Copenhagen in 2011-2012 and taught Australian Literature at King’s College London in 2002-2003. Anne’s books include Seven Big Australians: Adventures with Comic Actors (2019), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (2016), From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820-2012 (2013), One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries (2010), Nick Enright: An Actor’s Playwright (2008) and Christina Stead: Satirist (2002).


  • Qualifications

     

    Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales ADFA, 1998

     

    Master of Education, Harvard University, 1991

     

    Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing, Macquarie University, 1991

     

     Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours, English), Australian National University, 1986

     

  • Awards & Achievements

     

    ·      National Library of Australia Fellowship 2021

    ·      Fulbright Senior Fellowship Harvard University 2018

    ·      Australian Bicentennial Fellowship, King’s College London 2016

    ·      National Film and Sound Archive Scholar in Residence Fellowship 2013-2014 

    ·      Distinguished Visiting Chair, Australian Studies, University of Copenhagen 2011-2012

    ·      University of New England VC’s Award for Excellence in Research 2009

    ·      Australian Bicentennial Fellowship, King’s College London 2006 

    ·      Joan Rydon Fellowship, King’s College London 2003

    ·      Ria de Groot Prize and Australian Academy for the Humanities Grant 1998, 2001

     

     

  • Publications

    Selected Publications

    Biography, History and Democracy: Contemporary Writing about Australian Lives', Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 48, no 2, 2024, pp. 165-178.

    Anne Pender, Tiffany Knight, Sarah Peters and Mark Seton, Book Chapter ‘Wellbeing for Student Actors: #MeToo and New Initiatives in the Australian Tertiary Drama Curriculum’ in New Research and Possibilities in Wellbeing Education ed. Mathew White, Faye McCallum and Christopher Boyle, Springer, 2023, pp. 91-112.

     

     ‘Joan Dorothy Long’, Australian Dictionary of Biography. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/long-joan-dorothy-32555

    Australia and China at 50: The New Wave Theatre and the Drama of Cultural Exchange, Journal of Australian Studies, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2099951

    'Sustained Personal Contact: Recent Australian Productions on Tour in China', Australasian Drama Studies, 78, 2021, pp. 195-223. 

    'Geraldine Brooks, Historical Fiction and Australian Writers in the US', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Vol 20, No. 2, 2020, pp. 1-12.

    'Courage: On the Record with Geraldine Brooks', Harvard Review Online, 6 June 2019.

    Seven Big Australians: Adventures with Comic Actors, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2019.

    'John Clarke: The Man, the Mask and the Problem of Acting', Journal of Comedy Studies, Spring, 2019, pp. 1-13.

    'The Internationalists: Australian Writers, Expatriates and the Greek Experience', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 19, 1, 2019, pp. 1-11.

    Robyn Nevin, Patrick White and the Art of the Modern in Australian Theatre, Australasian Drama Studies, 71, October, pp. 68-88, 2017.

    Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film, A Series of Biographical Essays, AustLit Online, 2016.

    ‘Theatre Animals: Sumner Locke Elliott's Invisible Circus’, Australasian Drama Studies, 68, April, pp. 54-74, 2016.

    'Learning to Act: Tony Sheldon's Emotional Training in Australian Theatre', Humanities 2016, 5(3), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/h5030072

    Good Works: An Introduction, in Good Works, by Nick Enright, Currency Press, Sydney, pp. vii-xiii, 2015.

    The One Day of the Year, Essay, Reading Australia, 2015, https://readingaustralia.com.au/essays/the-one-day-of-the-year/

    ‘Worlds Within: Hayes Gordon, Zika Nester, Henri Szeps and the Transformations of Australian Theatre’, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 15, 3, pp. 1-12, 2015.

    Actors and Heroes: My Brother Jack and the Great War on Television, Metro Magazine, No 184, Autumn 2015, pp. 96-101.

    Portraits of Actors: Elspeth Ballantyne, Julia Blake and the Challenges of Biography, About Performance, No 13, 2015, pp.165-182, 2015.'

    Eat, Pray, Laugh    !': Barry Humphries, Reg Livermore and Cross-dressed Australian Burlesque, Australasian Drama Studies,Vol 63, October, pp. 69-83, 2013.

    From a Distant Shore: Australian writers in Britain 1820-2012, by Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender, Monash University Publishing, 2013.

    'Kerry Walker, Patrick White and the Faces of Australian Modernism', Coolabah (9), p. 75-87, 2012.

    One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries, ABC Books, 2010.

    "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, 2009.

    Nick Enright: An Actor's Playwright, co-edited with Susan Lever, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, 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, 2008.

    "Modernist Madonnas: Dorothy Todd, Madge Garland and Virginia Woolf", in Women's History Review, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 519-533, 2007.

    'The Mythical Australian: Barry Humphries, Gough Whitlam and "New Nationalism"', March 2005, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 51, 1, pp. 67-78.

    Christina Stead Satirist, Common Ground, Melbourne, 2002.

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