Professor
Stephen Pender, PhD
Professor, English / Fellow, CRRAR
University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Contact
CHN Rm 2107
519 253 3000 ext. 2307
spender@uwindsor.ca
Teaching/Research Areas:
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poetry and prose of early modern Britain
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intellectual history
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history of medicine
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history of rhetoric
Biography
Stephen Pender is a specialist in literature and intellectual history, the history of rhetoric, and the history of medicine in early modern Europe. He has published in Medical History, Rhetorica, Early Science and Medicine, the British Journal for the History of Science, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and the Intellectual History Review, as well as several chapters in collections of essays on early modern topics that range from pain and human deformity through laughter and compassion to Robert Boyle’s experience of illness.
He is currently finishing Therapy and the Passions: Moral Physiology in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), a monograph supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant in intellectual history. Dr. Pender has presented over forty papers at national and international conferences, and has been a featured speaker at Scientiae, an annual conference devoted to early modern science and medicine. With Nancy Struever, emerita, Johns Hopkins University, he has edited Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2012).
Dr. Pender was director of the Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, and held a research leadership chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2006-2012). In 2003, he co-edited The Common Sky: Canadian Writers against the War in Iraq (Three Squares Press); he has been on the educational advisory board for The Walrus magazine (2008-2012); and he has published a collection of verse, Histologies (2007).
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Stephen Pender, “Rhetoric and Disposition, Temperament and Place: Polykleitan Rules,” Rhetorica 41 (2023): 312-347
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Stephen Pender, “Falling from Horses: Medical Controversy in Early Eighteenth-Century England,” Medical History 64 (2020): 478-493
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Stephen Pender, “Friendship, Counsel, and Compassion in Early Modern Medical Thought,” in Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Feeling and Practice, ed. K. Steenbergh and K. Ibbett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 82-100
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Stephen Pender, "The 'Anglican Patient': Robert Boyle and the 'Medicalised Self' in Early Modern England," The Seventeenth Century 30. 4 (2015): 455-483
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Stephen Pender, "The Moral Physiology of Laughter," in Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe, ed. David Beck (London: Chatto and Pickering, 2015), 29-48
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Stephen Pender, "Heat and Moisture, Rhetoric and Spiritus," Intellectual History Review 24.1 (2013): 1-24
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Stephen Pender and Nancy J. Struever, eds., Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe 1500 to 1700 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012)
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Stephen Pender, "Rhetoric, Grief, and the Imagination in Early Modern England," Philosophy and Rhetoric 43.1 (2010): 54-85
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Stephen Pender, "Prudence, Decorum, and the 'Square Man,'" Rhetorica 23.4 (2005): 363-400
- Stephen Pender, "Between Medicine and Rhetoric," Early Science and Medicine 10.1 (2005): 36-64