Jeffrey N. Cox

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. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than forty scholarly articles. 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; of the Cockney School of poets, which included, among others, John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Leigh Hunt; and of the poetry of William Wordsworth.
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 Boulder. 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. 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: 