Professor Anne Pender

Professor Anne Pender

Kidman Chair in Australian Studies

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2024 Pender, A. (2024). Biography, History and Democracy: Contemporary Writing about Australian Lives. Journal of Australian Studies, 48(2), 165-178.
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    2022 Pender, A. (2022). Denise Varney, Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–2018. Modern Drama, 65(3), 466-469.
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    2022 Pender, A. (2022). Australia and China at 50: The New Wave Theatre and the Drama of Cultural Exchange. Journal of Australian Studies, 46(4), 482-495.
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    2021 Pender, A. (2021). Sustained personal contact: Recent Australian productions on tour in China. Australasian Drama Studies, 2021(78), 195-223.
    2020 Pender, J. (2020). Geraldine Brooks, Historical Fiction and Australian Writers in the US. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 20(2), 1-12.
    2019 Pender, A. (2019). The Internationalists: Australian writers and contemporary Greece. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 19(1), 11729-1-11729-11.
    2019 Pender, A. (2019). John Clarke: the man, the mask and the problem of acting. Comedy Studies, 10(1), 8-20.
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    2019 Pender, A. (2019). Courage: On the Record with Geraldine Brooks. Harvard Review Online.
    2017 Pender, A. (2017). Robyn Nevin, Patrick White and the Art of the Modern in Australian Theatre. Australasian Drama Studies, 71(71), 68-78.
    2016 Pender, A. (2016). Learning to Act: Tony Sheldon’s Emotional Training in Australian Theatre. Humanities, 5(3), 1-10.
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    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Theatre Animals: Sumner Locke Elliott's Invisible Circus. Australasian Drama Studies, 2016-April(68), 54-74.
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    2016 Pender, J. (2016). 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), 1-12.
    2015 Pender, A. (2015). Portraits of actors: Elspeth Ballantyne, Julia Blake and the challenges of biography.. About Performance, 13, 211-230.
    2007 Pender, A. (2007). 'Modernist Madonnas': Dorothy Todd, Madge Garland and Virginia Woolf. Women's History Review, 16(4), 519-533.
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    2005 Pender, A. (2005). 'Phrases between us': The poetry of Anna Wickham. Australian Literary Studies, 22(2), 229-244.
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    2005 Pender, A. (2005). The mythical Australian: Barry Humphries, Gough Whitlam and "new nationalism". Australian Journal of Politics and History, 51(1), 67-68.
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    2004 Pender, A. (2004). 'Scorched earth', Washington and the missing manuscript of Christina Stead's I'm dying laughing. Australian Literary Studies, 21(3), 235-250.
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    2004 Pender, A. (2004). Bound and dangerous. TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, (5263), 12.
    2001 Pender, A. (2001). No more please: Barry humphries and Australian English. Journal of Australian Studies, 25(68), 160-166.
    DOI Scopus2

  • Books
    Year Citation
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film. K. Kilner (Ed.), Australia: AustLit.

  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2023 Pender, A., Knight, T., Peters, S., & Seton, M. (2023). Wellbeing for Student Actors: #MeToo and New Initiatives in the Australian Tertiary Drama Curriculum. In M. White, F. McCallum, & C. Boyle (Eds.), New Research and Possibilities in Wellbeing Education (pp. 91-112). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
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    2017 Pender, J. (2017). A Tribute to John Clarke. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-5). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Introduction. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. n/a, 1 ed., pp. 1-4). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
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    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Carol Raye: Living on Champagne. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-10). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Helmut Bakaitis: The Art of the Theatre. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-8). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Elspeth Ballantyne: Strindberg for Breakfast. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-9). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Wendy Blacklock: The Transformation of Australian Theatre. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-8). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Julia Blake: I am a Camera. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-10). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Noeline Brown: Possum Magic, 'Queen of Comedy'. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-10). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). John Clarke: New Zealand Boy. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-10). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Barry Creyton: The Barry Creyton Show. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-10). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Max Cullen: Max's Method. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-12). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Mags: The Magic and Mesmerising Maggie Dence. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-9). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Alan Hopgood: The Boy's Sheer Poetry. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-9). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Denise Scott: An Extraordinary Woman. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-10). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Tony Sheldon: Child of the Theatre, Broadway Star. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-9). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Henry Szeps: 'It's my Party', Acting for Life. In K. Kerry (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-9). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Nick Tate: Strong Actor. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-10). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.
    2016 Pender, J. (2016). Jacki Weaver: 'I'm very Stella'. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-10). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource 2004-.

  • Report for External Bodies
    Year Citation
    2018 Pender, J. (2018). The Writing of Nick Enright.

  • Original Creative Works
    Year Citation
    2019 Authors: Pender A. Title: Seven Big Australians Adventures with Comic Actors. Description: N/A. Extent: 256 pages.

  • Internet Publications
    Year Citation
    2023 Pender, J. (2023). Long, Joan Dorothy (1925-1999). National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
    2022 Pender, J. (2022). Review of Horse by Geraldine Brooks. The Conversation.
  • Position: Kidman Chair in Australian Studies
  • Phone: 83134563
  • Email: anne.pender@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Napier, floor 3
  • Org Unit: School of Humanities
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