Dr Jessica Cox
Divisional Lead/Reader in English Literature
Gaskell Building 126
- Email: jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266402
- English
- English and Creative Writing
- Arts and Humanities
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
Jessica obtained her PhD from Swansea University in 2007 and worked as a lecturer at the University of Wales Lampeter before moving to Brunel in 2009. A senior lecturer in English, she has research interests in the cultural history of breastfeeding, Victorian popular fiction (especially sensation fiction), the Brontës, first-wave feminism, and neo-Victorianism. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and currently Programme Lead for English (undergraduate).
Academia.edu profile https://brunel.academia.edu/JessicaCox
Newest selected publications
Cox, J. (2023) 'Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain'. Cheltenham: The History Press. ISSN 10: 1-80399-404-5 ISSN 13: 978-0-7509-9857-4
Cox, J. (2022) 'Wagner, Tamara S. The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 320 pp.'. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 18 (1). pp. 1 - 4.Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2021) '“I’LL TRY VIOLENCE”: PATTERNS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE IN CHARLOTTE BRONTË’S JANE EYRE (1847)'. Women's Writing, 29 (3). pp. 1 - 23. ISSN: 0969-9082 Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2021) 'Midwifery', in Scholl, L. (ed.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1 - 4. ISBN 13: 9783030027216.
Cox, J. (2020) 'The ‘most sacred of duties’: Maternal Ideals and Discourses of Authority in Victorian Breastfeeding Advice'. Journal of Victorian Culture, 25 (2). pp. 223 - 239. ISSN: 1355-5502 Open Access Link