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Dr Neil Cocks

BA (UEA), MA (Reading), PhD (Reading), PGCE (Greenwich)

CIRCL Tutor and Researcher

Neil completed his PhD on children's literature in 2000 with a thesis on: "Reading Repetition and Difference in the Nineteenth Century Boys' School Story". During and just after his PhD studies, Neil taught as a part-time lecturer at Reading, including on the MA in Children's Literature and the (then) MA in Science Fiction Studies. In 2001, he became Head of English at South East Essex College. In October 2008, Neil was appointed as a full-time, permanent lecturer at the University of Reading. Neil's research interests are in the areas of critical theory, philosophy, pedagogy, and cultural studies, particularly with regards to ideas of childhood, and art and art-history.

Neil's book:

Student Centred: Education, Freedom and the Idea of Audience
(Inkermen Press/Axis Series, 2009)

 

 

 

 

 

Neil's articles and chapters in the field include:

an article: 'Hunting the Animal Boy' in: Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), Yearbook of English Studies on 'Children in Literature', vol. 32, 2002.

an article: 'Death and Absence in "Tim" by H. O. Sturgis' in Nineteenth Century Contexts, 26(1), 2003.

a chapter: 'Response and Responsibility: The Implied Reader in Children’s Literature Criticism' in Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.)Children's Literature: New Approaches, Palgrave, 2004.

a chapter: 'On Frida Kahlo's Moustache' in Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair, Manchester University Press, 2006.

a chapter: 'Fort/ Da: A Reading of Pictures of Innocence by Anne Higonnet' in Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (ed.), Children in Culture, Revisited: Further Approaches to Childhood, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 147-67.

an article: 'The Child and The Letter: Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall', Textual Practice, forthcoming.

Neil convenes and teaches on the Nineteenth Century Children's Literature core course, as well convening and teaching the options modules on Popular Forms of Children's Fiction and Children's Film, Television and Radio.

E-mail: n.h.cocks@reading.ac.uk