Patricia Pender Patricia Pender is an assistant professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Pace University in New York City. She earned her BA (Hons.) from the University of Sydney, Australia, and her Ph.D. in English from Stanford University.  Her research interests span early modern literature, feminist literary history and theory, and contemporary popular culture.  She has published essays on the early modern women writers Aphra Behn and Anne Bradstreet, as well as two essays on Buffy. She is particularly interested in cinematic representations of girls and girlhood and the phenomenon of “third wave” feminism.