Education
Cox received his Bachelor from Wesleyan University in 1975 and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1981.
Vice Chancellor Professor of English Literature
Cox received his Bachelor from Wesleyan University in 1975 and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1981.
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
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.