Josh Mangle
Instructor of English
Dr. Josh Mangle is an Instructor of English. He holds a BA in English from the College of Charleston and an M.A. in English from Winthrop University. He recently graduated with his PhD in English literature from the University of Tennessee, where he studied under Dr. Laura Howes and Dr. Roy Liuzza.
His dissertation focused on decoding the language of romantic companionship between male knights in Arthurian Romance, using the Prose Lancelot as his primary example. His research focuses on the intersection between trauma, gender, and sexuality in Old Norse and Chivalric Romance. He is also interested in how online communities use the medieval to further queer representation in video games.