Cox (born June 3, 1954) is Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he is also an Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction in English Literature and Humanities.
He is the author or editor of nine 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 and of the Cockney School of poets, which included, among others, John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Leigh Hunt.