Dr. Stephen Pender

Biography

Stephen Pender is a specialist in literature, intellectual history, the history of rhetoric, and the history of medicine in early modern Europe. His work has been published in notable journals such as Medical History, Rhetorica, Early Science and Medicine, British Journal for the History of Science, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and Intellectual History Review. He is currently completing a monograph titled 'Therapy Passions: Moral Physiology in Early Modern England,' which is set to be published by Cambridge University Press. Pender has presented forty papers at national and international conferences and was a featured speaker at Scientiae, an annual conference focused on early modern science and medicine. He was the director of the Humanities Research Group at the University of Windsor and held the research leadership chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 2006 to 2012. Additionally, Pender co-edited 'Common Sky: Canadian Writers on the War in Iraq' in 2003 and served on the educational advisory board for Walrus magazine from 2008 to 2012. His literary contributions include a collection of verse titled 'Histologies' published in 2007.

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