{"id":24093,"date":"2023-12-04T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T19:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=24093"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:00:07","slug":"congratulations-to-prof-melissa-pullara-phd-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2023\/congratulations-to-prof-melissa-pullara-phd-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Pullara (PhD 2019)!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Pullara (PhD 2019)!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"congratulations-to-prof-melissa-pullara-phd-2019\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Pullara (PhD 2019)!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Pullara was appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mtroyal.ca%2FProgramsCourses%2FFacultiesSchoolsCentres%2FArts%2FDepartments%2FEnglishLanguagesCultures%2FFacultyStaff%2FMelissaPullara.htm&amp;data=05%7C01%7CPriyaKumar%40CUNET.CARLETON.CA%7C2a795cdca59d45b1e28608dbeee67a7f%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638366445885117522%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=VDgIX0JlDiRM1Ko7g%2BQ9BJjHNJ%2BC2JoqzXADvdJPzgM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Assistant Professor at Mount Royal University (Calgary)<\/a>, 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 (including those by George Chapman, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and William Shakespeare) implicitly manifest socio-political critiques of 16<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> century English gender and power systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 (including those by George Chapman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,127,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-publications-successes","category-graduate-student-successes","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27371,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093\/revisions\/27371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}