Academic Qualifications

2023 PhD in English literature, the University of Adelaide. Doctoral thesis: Dust Country: Stories from a Shifting Land. Supervised by Mandy Treagus and Meg Samuelson. 

2018 Honours in English literature, the University of Adelaide. Honours thesis: ‘Divergent Thoughts and Discordant Representations in Herman Melville’s Typee.’

2016 Bachelor of Arts in English literature and Classical Studies and Bachelor of International Studies in International Politics and History, the University of Adelaide.

Research Interests

• Environmental Humanities, Environmental History and Ecocriticism.
• Material Poetics, Materialism and New Materialism.
• Australian literature, art and film.
• Postcolonial and Southern literature (including Pacific and South African).
• Modernist Studies and postmodernism.
• Melville Studies and North American literature (including the Beats and literature of the Prairies).
• English literature. 

Recent Awards, Grants and Scholarships

• Postdoctoral Teach at Tübingen Fellowship at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies, the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2025.
• Highly commended for the International Australian Studies Association’s inaugural Kay Shaffer Award for best unpublished essay in Australian Studies in 2024.
• Awarded ASAL ECR Travel Bursary.
• Awarded a Dean’s Commendation for PhD thesis Dust Country: Stories from a Shifting Land in 2023.
• Winner of the University of Adelaide’s Bundey Prize for English Verse in 2023.
• Winner of Australian Literary Studies PhD Essay Prize for best essay in 2023, jointly won with Evelyn Araluen.
• Awarded ASAL Postgraduate Travel Bursary.
• Winner of the University of Adelaide’s Heather Kerr Prize for best published paper by a postgraduate in English over a two-year period in 2022.
• Winner of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature’s A. D. Hope Prize for best postgraduate paper in 2022.
• Awarded HDR Research Support Funds to access archival material at the National Library, Canberra, Australia, 2022.
• Awarded Research Training Program Scholarship for PhD research, University of Adelaide in 2019.
• First Class Honours, University of Adelaide in 2018.

 Teaching Experience

Universität Tübingen:

• ‘Anthropocene Echoes: Dustbowl Literatures’ (2025 Summer Term)
• ‘Writing the South: Desert Worlds and Ecopoetics at the Edge’ (2025/26 Winter Term) 

University of Adelaide:

• ‘Trans-Tasman Currents’ (2024 Semester 2)
• ‘Australian Classics: Literature and Film’ (2024 Semester 1)
• ‘Introduction to English Literature’ (2024 Semester 1)
• The Sixties: From the Beats to Bongs’ (2023 Semester 1)
• ‘Thinking About Country’ (2023 Semester 1)
• ‘Australian Classics: Literature and Film’ (2022 Semester 1)

Publications

Cox, Samuel J. [forthcoming] ‘Phoenix Journal: The Pilot Ship of Australian Modenism.’ Affirmations [AMSN conference special issue], vol. 10, no. 1, 2026. 

——. [forthcoming] ‘Review: Stories of the Tanganekald: A collection of ancient stories from the Coorong.’ Mascara Literary Review, 2025. 

——. ‘Review: Nicolas Birns and Louis Klees (eds.) Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel.’ TEXT, vol 29, no. 1, 2025. 

——. ‘Review: David Cater (ed.) The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel.’ JASAL, vol. 24, no. 2, 2024.

——. ‘Writing from the South: An Interview with Kim Scott.’ Overland, no. 255, 2024.

——. ‘Samuel J. Cox Reviews Toby Fitch and Gareth Sion Jenkins.’ Cordite Poetry Review,  20 November 2024.

——. ‘On the Track to Tourmaline: Randolph Stow’s “dry-souled country.”’ Westerly, vol. 69, no. 1, June 2024.

——. ‘Samuel Cox Reviews Murnane by Emmett Stinson.’ Mascara Literary Review, 30 March 2024.

——. ‘Textual Encounters of the Bird Kind: Dal Stivens and the Night Parrot.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, 2023.

——. ‘Samuel Cox Reviews Harvest Lingo by Lionel Fogarty.’ Mascara Literary Review, 21 May 2023.

——. ‘The Dust of Carpentaria.’ Motifs [En ligne], vol. 6, 2022.

——. ‘I’ll Show You Love In a Handful of Dust: The Material Poetics of Voss.’ JASAL, vol. 22, no. 2, 2022, pp. 1-11.

——. ‘“The Kingdom of Dust”: Voss as Planetary Epic.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, 2022, pp. 1-27. 

——. ‘On the Track to Tourmaline: Photo Essay.’ Westerly, vol. 67, no. 2, 2022, pp. 109-118.

——. ‘Land, Grief, and Returning to Dust: An Interview with Dani Powell.’ The Saltbush Review, vol. 2, 2022, pp. 1-13.

——. ‘Sea, Salt, Sand: The Billowing of Benang in Kim Scott’s Country.’ The Saltbush Review, vol. 1, 2021, pp. 1-10.