Trisha Pender

About Trisha Pender

Trisha Pender studied Arts at the University of Sydney and completed her Ph.D. in English at Stanford University in 2004. A past recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, the Mabelle McLeod Lewis Fellowship, and the J. G. Lieberman Award, she is currently a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Newcastle. Her research interests include early modern English literature, women’s literary history, and Australian popular culture. She is a past winner of the Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year Award (1987) and won the Local Award in the 2011 Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in Cordite, Overland, The Bulletin, SMH, the Newcastle Poetry Prize 2011, and various literary anthologies. Her monograph, Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty, will be published by Palgrave in 2012.