Associate Professor, Director of University Honors Program
Dr. Tuggle is Associate Professor in the Honors College at UA, which is also his alma mater. After earning a Rhodes Scholarship, he studied Renaissance English Literature at Oxford University (M.Phil.) and the University of Virginia (Ph.D.). His research has been published in Spenser Studies, Sidney Journal, Explicator, and elsewhere. In 2019, he completed a book that shows how Sidney and Spenser reimagine and rethink how humans relate to non-humans: other animals, geologic forces, and human constructs such as buildings and fictions. His current book project takes marriage as its theme, and shows how the works of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare participate in the exciting and necessary reconceptualizations of marriage in late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century England, by showing characters who experiment with alternative arrangements of heterosexual contracts. In the Honors College, he teaches courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance English Poetry, and Great Books. He also recruits and mentors student candidates for prestigious post-graduate scholarships, including the Rhodes, Marshall, and Gates-Cambridge scholarships.
