Archives: Graduate Student Successes

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Prof. Sarah Waisvisz Publishes Heartlines with Methuen Drama

A graduate of the PhD in English at Carleton in 2014, Prof. Waisvisz is now Assistant Professor in the DAN School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University. A playwright, dramaturge, and multi-disciplinary performer, Prof. Waisvisz’s two-act play Heartlines (about queer-Jewish activists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore) premiered to sold-out... More

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Elizabeth Dizon (MA 2021) Begins A Law Degree

After completing a Master’s degree in English in 2021, which included a Master’s Research Paper on feminist literary responses to reproductive rights during the women’s liberation movement, Elizabeth Dizon worked for the City of Calgary as a Student Lease Analyst. She is now a J.D. candidate at the University of Calgary. Bravo,... More

Monday, January 22, 2024

Dr. Veronika Kratz (PhD 2023) Wins Prestigious SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen’s University

Dr. Kratz’s doctoral research examined desertification in the US context as a discourse through which drought and drylands have been and are (mis)understood. Her postdoctoral work at Queen's engages in a cultural history of the ecosystem concept through the lens of cold war nuclear energy research and the mid-twentieth century environmentalist... More

Monday, December 4, 2023

Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Pullara (PhD 2019)!

Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Pullara (PhD 2019)! Prof. Pullara was appointed Assistant Professor at Mount Royal University (Calgary), on July 1, 2023. Prof. Pullara specializes in early modern drama. Her doctoral thesis analyzed how the psychological effects of human encounters with the supernatural in a variety of early modern plays... More

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