Samuel Cox
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Dr. Samuel J. Cox completed a PhD in 2023 on dust in Australian literature at the University of Adelaide, where he is currently remains visiting Research Fellow as he undertakes a Fellowship at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is an expert in Australian and Southern Literatures, with areas of research specialty include, Australian literature, Ecocriticism and Ecomaterialism, Anthropocene Studies, Pacific literature, Indigenous literature, Melville Studies, Australian modernism and print cultures. His forthcoming mongraph with Routledge (2026) is entitled Dust Country: Australian Literature in the Age of the Anthropocene. Papers adapted from this thesis have won the Association for the Study of Australian Literature's A.D. Hope Prize in 2022 and Australian Literary Studies PhD Essay Prize (as a joint winner with Evelyn Araluen) in 2023.
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Cox, S. J. (2023). Textual Encounters of the Bird Kind: Dal Stivens and the Night Parrot. Australian Literary Studies, 38(3), 22 pages.
2022 Cox, S. (2022). On the Track to Tourmaline. Westerly, 67(2), 109-118.
Scopus12022 Cox, S. J. (2022). ‘The Kingdom of Dust’: *Voss* as Planetary Epic. Australian Literary Studies, 37(3), 27 pages.
Scopus12022 Cox, S. (2022). On the Track to <i>Tourmaline</i>. WESTERLY, 67(2), 108-118.
WoS2- Cox, S. J. (2022). The Dust of Carpentaria. Motifs, (6).
- Vial, J., Harvey, P., Tink, A., Cox, S. J., Webb, J., Booth, C., . . . Sandtner, J. (2025). TEXT Reviews April 2025. TEXT, 29(1).
I have been the recipient of the following prizes and grants:
2025
Teach@Tubingen Fellowship at the University of Tubingen.
2023
ALS PhD Essay Prize
University of Adelaide's Bundey Prize for English Verse
2022
ASAL's A.D. Hope Prize
University of Adelaide's Heather Kerr Prize
I have notable experience as a course coordinator, lecturer and tutors across a range of courses. I have taught the following courses in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, at the University of Adelaide and at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
2025/26
Winter Semester
Writing the South, Reading the South: Desert World's and Ecopoetics at the Edge - Lecturer, University of Tübingen, Germany.
2025
Summer Semester
Anthropocene Echoes: Dustbowl Literatures - Lecturer, University of Tübingen, Germany.
2024
Semester 2
ENGL 2078 Trans-Tasman Currents - Lecturer and Course Coordinator, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, at the University of Adelaide.
Semester 1
ENGL 2066 Australian Classics: Literature and Film - Lecturer and Course Coordinator, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, at the University of Adelaide.
ENG 1101 Introduction to English Literature - Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, at the University of Adelaide.
2023
ENGL 2041 The Sixties: From Beats to Bongs - Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, at the University of Adelaide.
2022
ENGL 3048 Australian Classics: Literature and Film - Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, at the University of Adelaide.
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