Jeffrey N. Cox

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Jeffrey N. Cox
Born Jeffrey N. Cox
(1954-06-03)3 June 1954
U.S.

Jeffrey N. Cox (born June 3, 1954) is a Professor of English literature and the Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Cox specializes in English and European Romantic literature, cultural theory, and cultural studies. He is a leading scholar of late eighteenth- to early nineteenth- century theater and drama and of the Cockney School of poets, which included, among others, John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Leigh Hunt.

Education

Cox received his BA from Wesleyan University in 1975 and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1981.

Scholarship

Cox taught at Texas A&M University until his appointment in 1998 as the Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Arts (CHA) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2005, Cox left the position of CHA Director to become the University's Associate Vice Chancellor of Faculty Affairs. He is currently at work on two book projects provisionally entitled Communal Romanticism: History, Theory, Method and Romantic Border Raids: Radical Poetry in a World at War.

Selected Honors and Awards

In 2008, Cox was selected to give a plenary address at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) at the University of Toronto. Cox received the Keats-Shelley Association Distinguished Scholar Award in 2009 for his work on the Keats-Shelley circle, and the 2011 meeting of NASSR at Brigham Young University acknowledged his book In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France for its "significant impact on the field"[1] of Romanticism.

Selected honors and awards include:

  • Distinguished Scholar Award, Keats-Shelley Association, 2009
  • Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 2004-2005.
  • Scholarly and Creative Work Enhancement Grant, Texas A&M University, 1995.
  • Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study, Texas A&M University, 1994-1995.
  • Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award, Texas A&M University, 1990.
  • Huntington-Exxon Research Award, Henry E. Huntington Library, 1986.

Books Authored and Edited

  • Keats's Poetry and Prose. Norton Critical Edition. Norton, 2008.
  • Collected Works of Leigh Hunt. Vols. 1 and 2: Periodical Essays: 1805-1821. Co-Edited with Greg Kucich. Pickering & Chatto, 2003.
  • The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama. Co-Edited with Michael Gamer. Broadview Press, 2003.
  • Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation in the British Romantic Period. Vol. 5: The Drama. London: Pickering and Chatto: 1999.
  • Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Shelley, Keats, Hunt, and Their Circle. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  • New Historical Literary Study. Co-Edited with Larry Reynolds. Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • Seven Gothic Dramas, 1789-1825. Ohio University Press, 1992. Paperback edition, 1993.
  • In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France. Ohio University Press, 1987.

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References

  1. ↑ "North American Society for the Study of Romanticism". 19th Annual Conference (2011). Brigham Young University. Retrieved July 31, 2011. 
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