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Dr. Octavia Cox is a Departmental Lecturer in Lifelong Learning (English Literature) at the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education, where she specializes in the literature of the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her role involves teaching a diverse range of students in open access, undergraduate, and postgraduate courses, drawing on over a decade of experience across institutions such as Oxford colleges, Middlebury College, and the University of Nottingham.
She completed her education with an Undergraduate MA in English and Philosophy from the University of St Andrews, an MA with Distinction in Romantic and Victorian Literary Studies from Durham University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, focusing on "Pope’s Poetic Legacy, 1744-1830."
Her research interests center on literary self-consciousness, encompassing intertextuality, metatextuality, and paratextuality, as well as the exploration of literary inheritances, legacies, canonicity, counter-canonicity, and women's writing. This work reflects a deep engagement with how texts interact with each other and their cultural contexts, particularly in relation to gender and historical periods.
In her publications, Dr. Cox consistently explores themes such as Romantic and Victorian literature, women's contributions to literary spaces, and the intersections of literature with medical and transatlantic discourses. Her articles demonstrate a focus on historical contextualization, theoretical frameworks, and the reinterpretation of canonical and non-canonical works, with a strong emphasis on poetry and prose from the 18th and 19th centuries.
She has not received any scientific awards or fellowships mentioned in the provided text. Similarly, there is no information on student advising, grants, labs, or team collaborations, indicating a primary focus on individual research and teaching.
