Publications

Books

• Southerners Acting Southern: On Celebrities and Their Star Personas in the Imagined South. Louisiana State University Press, 2025.
• Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet's Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales. University of Michigan Press, 2024.
  
• Will & Grace. Wayne State University Press, 2023.
  
• Understanding Agatha Christie. University of South Carolina Press, 2023.
  
• Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender. University of Mississippi Press, 2023.
  
• Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom. Coedited with Lynn Ramey. Bloomsbury, 2022.
  
• On the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive. University of Toronto Press, 2021.
  
• Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. K. Rowling's Fantasies and Other Fictions. University of South Carolina Press, 2020.
  
  
• Chaucer's Losers, Nintendo's Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology. University of Nebraska Press, 2019
  
  
• The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom. Rutgers University Press, 2018. 
  
  
• Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon. Louisiana State University Press, 2016.
  
  
• Folse, K., & Pugh, T. (2015). Great Writing Book 5 (3rd Ed.). National Geographic Learning.
  
  
• Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages. Ohio State University Press, 2014.
  
  
• Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies. University of Georgia Press, 2014.
  
  
• Literary Studies: A Practical Guide. Co-written with Margaret E. Johnson. Routledge, 2014. 
  
  
• Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature. Louisiana State University Press, 2013. 
  
  
• An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer. University Press of Florida, 2013.
  
  
• Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present. Co-written with Angela Jane Weisl. Routledge, 2012.
  
  
• Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature. Routledge, 2011.
  
  
• Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  
  
• Queering Medieval Genres. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Edited Collections

• The United States of Medievalism. Coedited with Susan Aronstein. University of Toronto Press, 2021
  
  
• Queering the South on Screen. University of Georgia Press, 2020.
  
• Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other. Co-edited with Miriamne Ara Krummel. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
  
  
• Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales. Co-edited with Kathleen Coyne Kelly. Ohio State University Press, 2016.
  
  
• The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past. Co-edited with Susan Aronstein. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  
  
• Queer Movie Medievalisms. Co-edited with Kathleen Kelly. Ashgate, 2009. 
  
  
• Men and Masculinities in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. Co-edited with Marcia Smith Marzec. D. S. Brewer. 2008.
  
  
• Race, Class, and Gender in “Medieval” Cinema. Co-edited with Lynn Ramey. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  
  
• Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems. Co-edited with Angela Jane Weisl. Modern Language Association, 2007.
  
  

Awards

• UCF Pegasus Professor Designation, 2019. 

• The Teaching Literature Book Award for Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other, 2019. 

• The Popular Culture Association John Leo and Dana Heller Award for the Best Work in  LGBTQ Studies, for The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom, 2019. 

• 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, 2016, and 2022.

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

• UCF Research Incentive Award, 2006, 2011, 2016, and 2021.

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

• UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award, 2006, 2013, and 2018.

• 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

• Fall 2025