Tison Pugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tison Pugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tison |
| FAMILY NAME | Pugh |
| SIGNATURE | PUGH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-5132-5456 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England
Will & Grace
What’s the Matter with Jerry? Superiority Humor and the Shifting Norms of Whiteness in Parks and Recreation
Chaucerotics
Book Review| October 01 2021 Chaucerotics: Uncloaking the Language of Sex in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde Chaucerotics: Uncloaking the Language of Sex in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. By Geoffrey W. Gust. The New Middle Ages. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xii + 332. $89.99. Tison Pugh Tison Pugh University of Central Florida Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal…
United States of Medievalism
Excremental Desire, Queer Allegory, and the Disidentified Audience of Mankind
Research Article| October 01 2020 Excremental Desire, Queer Allegory, and the Disidentified Audience of Mankind Tison Pugh Tison Pugh University of Central Florida Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2020) 119 (4): 457–483. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.119.4.0457 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tison Pug…
The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom
Interracial Homosexuality and the White Southern Phallus in Kevin Sessums’s Mississippi Sissy
In its stinging critique of the U.S. South’s rigid ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality, Kevin Sessums’s memoir Mississippi Sissy depicts interracial gay relationships as a profound subversion of the region’s conservative ethos. At the same time, this memoir succumbs to phallic posturing that imagines white and black gay masculinities within regressive and patriarchal terms, which thus ironically reinstitutes the binaries of race and desire …
The Queer Narrativity of the Hero's Journey in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda Video Games
The Queer Narrativity of the Hero's Journey in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda Video Games Tison Pugh (bio) Within the relatively brief history of video games and their scholarly study, many critics and players have long lamented their regressive gender roles—and rightfully so. Various games rely on hackneyed narrative trajectories depicting male agency and female passivity, in which male protagonists rescue female damsels in distress who are ofte…
Conservative Narrativity, Queer Politics, and the Humor of Gay Stereotypes in Modern Family
Despite the progressive ambitions announced in its title, the sitcom Modern Family (ABC, 2009–) has been excoriated by many viewers for its purported conservatism and reactionary politics. In particular, the program’s treatment of homosexuality, evident in the story line of gay couple Mitch and Cam, has raised the hackles of audiences who see in it a whitewashing of queer life and queer desire. A strain of television criticism posits a conservati…
The Queer Innocence of The Brady Bunch
Chaucer in Contemporary Mystery Novels
The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
Introduction to Issue 22.1
Leonardo's Ghost
Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature
Conclusion
I f one defines queer as that which is subversive of or otherwise resistant to normativity, medievalists are a decidedly queer bunch. In privileging intellectual passion over other vocational and avocational pursuits, we resist the tide of anti-intellectualism prevalent in today’s culture and stake a claim for a decidedly atypical career. 1 Although I cannot make vast claims about the personal values of medievalists as a whole, our decisions to e…
Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
New studies of the problem of medieval masculinity, and Chaucer's treatment of it. Issues relating to the male characters and the construction of masculinities in Chaucer's masterpiece of love found and love lost are explored here. Collectively the essays address the question of what it means to be a man in theMiddle Ages, what constitutes masculinity in this era, and how such masculinities are culturally constructed; they seek to advance scholar…
A Cosmos of Desire
Queering Genres, Battering Males
Queering Genres, Battering Males: The Wife of Bath's Narrative Violence Tison Pugh Why does the Wife of Bath tell a romance? This question is virtually a critical cliché, but for good reason: "The General Prologue," the pilgrims' prologues, and the narratives preceding her tale establish the expectation that she will tell a tale suited to her social class and vocation. As even the most casual reader of The Canterbury Tales cannot help but observe…
Romantic Friendship, Homosexuality, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
Research Article| June 01 2001 Romantic Friendship, Homosexuality, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited Tison Pugh Tison Pugh University of Central Florida Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 64–72. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-38.4.64 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tison Pugh; Romantic Friendship, Homosexuality, …
The Queer Narrativity of the Hero's Journey in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda Video Games
The Queer Narrativity of the Hero's Journey in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda Video Games Tison Pugh (bio) Within the relatively brief history of video games and their scholarly study, many critics and players have long lamented their regressive gender roles—and rightfully so. Various games rely on hackneyed narrative trajectories depicting male agency and female passivity, in which male protagonists rescue female damsels in distress who are ofte…
Queering Genres, Battering Males
Queering Genres, Battering Males: The Wife of Bath's Narrative Violence Tison Pugh Why does the Wife of Bath tell a romance? This question is virtually a critical cliché, but for good reason: "The General Prologue," the pilgrims' prologues, and the narratives preceding her tale establish the expectation that she will tell a tale suited to her social class and vocation. As even the most casual reader of The Canterbury Tales cannot help but observe…
Romantic Friendship, Homosexuality, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
Research Article| June 01 2001 Romantic Friendship, Homosexuality, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited Tison Pugh Tison Pugh University of Central Florida Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 64–72. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-38.4.64 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tison Pugh; Romantic Friendship, Homosexuality, …
Queering Genres, Battering Males
Queering Genres, Battering Males: The Wife of Bath's Narrative Violence Tison Pugh Why does the Wife of Bath tell a romance? This question is virtually a critical cliché, but for good reason: "The General Prologue," the pilgrims' prologues, and the narratives preceding her tale establish the expectation that she will tell a tale suited to her social class and vocation. As even the most casual reader of The Canterbury Tales cannot help but observe…
A Cosmos of Desire
Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature
Conclusion
I f one defines queer as that which is subversive of or otherwise resistant to normativity, medievalists are a decidedly queer bunch. In privileging intellectual passion over other vocational and avocational pursuits, we resist the tide of anti-intellectualism prevalent in today’s culture and stake a claim for a decidedly atypical career. 1 Although I cannot make vast claims about the personal values of medievalists as a whole, our decisions to e…
Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
New studies of the problem of medieval masculinity, and Chaucer's treatment of it. Issues relating to the male characters and the construction of masculinities in Chaucer's masterpiece of love found and love lost are explored here. Collectively the essays address the question of what it means to be a man in theMiddle Ages, what constitutes masculinity in this era, and how such masculinities are culturally constructed; they seek to advance scholar…
Leonardo's Ghost
The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
Introduction to Issue 22.1
Chaucer in Contemporary Mystery Novels
The Queer Innocence of The Brady Bunch
Conservative Narrativity, Queer Politics, and the Humor of Gay Stereotypes in Modern Family
Despite the progressive ambitions announced in its title, the sitcom Modern Family (ABC, 2009–) has been excoriated by many viewers for its purported conservatism and reactionary politics. In particular, the program’s treatment of homosexuality, evident in the story line of gay couple Mitch and Cam, has raised the hackles of audiences who see in it a whitewashing of queer life and queer desire. A strain of television criticism posits a conservati…
The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom
Interracial Homosexuality and the White Southern Phallus in Kevin Sessums’s Mississippi Sissy
In its stinging critique of the U.S. South’s rigid ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality, Kevin Sessums’s memoir Mississippi Sissy depicts interracial gay relationships as a profound subversion of the region’s conservative ethos. At the same time, this memoir succumbs to phallic posturing that imagines white and black gay masculinities within regressive and patriarchal terms, which thus ironically reinstitutes the binaries of race and desire …
The Queer Narrativity of the Hero's Journey in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda Video Games
The Queer Narrativity of the Hero's Journey in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda Video Games Tison Pugh (bio) Within the relatively brief history of video games and their scholarly study, many critics and players have long lamented their regressive gender roles—and rightfully so. Various games rely on hackneyed narrative trajectories depicting male agency and female passivity, in which male protagonists rescue female damsels in distress who are ofte…
Excremental Desire, Queer Allegory, and the Disidentified Audience of Mankind
Research Article| October 01 2020 Excremental Desire, Queer Allegory, and the Disidentified Audience of Mankind Tison Pugh Tison Pugh University of Central Florida Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2020) 119 (4): 457–483. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.119.4.0457 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tison Pug…
Chaucerotics
Book Review| October 01 2021 Chaucerotics: Uncloaking the Language of Sex in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde Chaucerotics: Uncloaking the Language of Sex in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. By Geoffrey W. Gust. The New Middle Ages. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xii + 332. $89.99. Tison Pugh Tison Pugh University of Central Florida Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal…
United States of Medievalism
What’s the Matter with Jerry? Superiority Humor and the Shifting Norms of Whiteness in Parks and Recreation
Will & Grace
Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England
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