Tison Pugh, Ph.D.

• Professor
• Tison.Pugh@ucf.edu
• 407-823-4454
• Office Hours: By appointment
• Campus Location: CNH302D

Education

• Ph.D. in Medieval English Literature from University of Oregon (2000)
• M.Ed. in English Education from University of Massachusetts, Amherest (1993)
• B.A. in English Literature from State University of New York, College at Purchase (1991)

Research Interests

Medieval English Literature; Queer and Gender Studies; Pedagogy; Film; Children's Literature; Southern Literature

Selected Publications

Books

• Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature. New York: Routledge, 2011. 
• Queer Movie Medievalisms. Co-edited with Kathleen Kelly. Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2009.
• Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
• Men and Masculinities in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. Co-edited with Marcia Smith Marzec. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 2008.
• Race, Class, and Gender in “Medieval” Cinema. Co-edited with Lynn Ramey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems. Co-edited with Angela Jane Weisl. New York: Modern Language Association, 2007.
• Queering Medieval Genres. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Awards

• UCF College of Arts and Humanities Excellence in Research Award, 2012.

• Southeastern Medieval Association Award for Scholarly Achievement, 2011.

• Council of Editors of Learned Journals Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement. Co-Awardees Noah Guynn, University of California-Davis; Patricia Ingham, Indiana University; Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan, and Elizabeth Scala, University of Texas; for Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011.

• UCF College of Arts and Humanities Research Incentive and Development Award, 2011

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute on “Representations of the ‘Other’: Jews in Medieval Christendom,” at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Director, Irven Resnick, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Summer 2010.

• UCF College of Arts and Humanities Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2009

• UCF College of Arts and Humanities Distinguished Researcher Award, 2007

• UCF Research Incentive Award, 2006 and 2011.

• UCF Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, 2006 and 2011.

• UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award, 2005-06

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute on Anglo-Saxon England at Trinity College, Cambridge. Director, Paul Szarmach, The Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University. Summer 2004

• UCF College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2004

Courses

Updated: Mar 22, 2012