Rate My Professor Trisha Pender

Pender's research focuses on early modern women’s writing, feminist literary history, material cultures of authorship, and gender representations in popular culture. She challenges traditional views by emphasizing women's roles as cultural producers through writing, patronage, translation, and editing, rather than solely authorship. Key publications include her monograph Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), which argues against literal interpretations of feminine modesty tropes; the co-edited collection Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism (I.B. Tauris, 2016); Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); and the poetry chapbook Bibliophilic (Puncher & Wattmann, 2018). With over 20 book chapters and numerous journal articles, her scholarship has transformed understandings of early modern literary history by incorporating marginalized perspectives. Pender teaches courses on literature, adaptation, and feminist theory, and contributes to the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, advocating for accessible humanities research. Her work bridges historical scholarship with contemporary cultural analysis, influencing both academic and public discourses on gender and literature.