Jeffrey N. Cox

Jeffrey N. Cox
Born Jeffrey N. Cox
(1954-06-03)3 June 1954
U.S.
Occupation Academic, author

Jeffrey N. Cox (born June 3, 1954) is Professor of English Literature and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Cox specializes in English and European Romanticism, cultural theory, and cultural studies. He is a leading scholar of late eighteenth- to early nineteenth- century drama and theater 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 was a faculty member at Texas A&M University from 1981 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 2006, Cox left the position of CHA Director to become the University's Associate Vice Chancellor of Faculty Affairs. 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. 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:

Books Authored

Books Edited

External links

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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