Jeffrey N. Cox is Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction in English Literature and Humanities and Chair of the Department of English at the

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado sy ...

. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than forty scholarly articles. Cox specializes in English and European

Romanticism Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...

, cultural theory, and cultural studies. He is a leading scholar of late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century drama and theater; of the

Cockney School {{short description, Group of 19th-century English poets and essayists The "Cockney School" refers to a group of poets and essayists writing in England in the second and third decades of the 19th century. The term came in the form of hostile revie ...

of poets, which included, among others, John Keats,

Percy Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achie ...

, and

Leigh Hunt James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. Hunt co-founded '' The Examiner'', a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre ...

; and of the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Education

Cox received his BA from

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the col ...

in 1975 and his

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

from the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...

in 1981.

Scholarship

Cox was a faculty member at

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...

from 1981 until his appointment in 1998 as the Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Arts (CHA) at the

. In 2006, Cox left the position of CHA Director to become the University's Associate Vice Chancellor of Faculty Affairs, a position he held until 2019. He is currently at work on a project provisionally entitled ''Communal Romanticism: History, Theory, Method.''

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 The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...

. 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" of Romanticism. Selected honors and awards include: * Professor of Distinction, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, 2014. * Distinguished Scholar Award, Keats-Shelley Association, 2009. * Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 2004–2005. * South Central Modern Language Association Best Book Award, 2000. * 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

*''William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic: Contesting Poetry after Waterloo''. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2021. *''Romanticism in the Shadow of War: Literary Culture in the Napoleonic War Years''. Cambridge University Press, 2014. *''Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Shelley, Keats, Hunt, and Their Circle''. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Winner of the 2000 South Central Modern Language Association Best Book Award. Hardcover , Paperback *''In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France.'' Ohio University Press, 1987.

Books edited

*''Keats's Poetry and Prose''. Norton Critical Edition. Norton, 2008. *''The Selected Writings 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: Writings in the British Romantic Period''. Vol. 5: The Drama. Pickering and Chatto: 1999. *''New Historical Literary Study.'' Co-Edited with Larry Reynolds. Princeton University Press, 1993. Hardcover , Paperback *''Seven Gothic Dramas, 1789-1825.'' Ohio University Press, 1992. Paperback edition, 1993.

Journal editions edited

*Guest Editor with Jill Heydt-Stevenson, Special Issue on “Romantic Cosmopolitanism.” ''European Romantic Review'' 16 (April 2005). *Guest Editor, Special Issue on Gothic Drama. ''Gothic Studies'' 3.2 (August, 2001).

References

External links

Jeffrey N. Cox
English Department Webpage at the University of Colorado {{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Jeffrey N. Living people University of Colorado Boulder faculty Wesleyan University alumni University of Virginia alumni 1954 births American academics of English literature