Education
Cox received his Bachelor from Wesleyan University in 1975 and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1981.
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Jeffrey Cox
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He is a leading scholar of late eighteenthto early nineteenthcentury drama and theater and of the Cockney School of poets, which included, among others, John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Leigh Hunt. Selected Honors and
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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: Professor of Distinction, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Colorado, 2014. Distinguished Scholar Award, Keats-Shelley Association, 2009. Faculty Fellowship, University of Colorado Boulder, 2004-2005. South Central Modern Language Association Best Book Award, 2000. Scholarly and Creative Work Enhancement Grant, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, 1995. Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, 1994-1995. Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, 1990. Huntington-Exxon Research Award, Henry E. Huntington Library, 1986.
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Cox specializes in English and European Romanticism, cultural theory, and cultural studies. 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. Romanticism in the Shadow of War: Literary Culture in the Napoleonic War Years.
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