James H. Cox
Affiliate Faculty — Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor

Contact
- E-mail: jhcox@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-232-7804
Interests
Native American literature and film; ethnic US literatures; literature of immigration; American literature since 1920
Biography
James Cox’s primary research interests are twentieth and twenty-first century Native American literature; the twentieth and twenty-first century American novel; Native American literary theory; twentieth and twenty-first century ethnic American literatures, including Mexican American literature and literature of immigration; and the history of Native Americans in American literature and popular culture. He has published articles on Sherman Alexie, Thomas King, Todd Downing, and Lynn Riggs and an article on Will Rogers and John Milton Oskison in addition to book chapters on Gertrude Bonnin's editorial work at The American Indian Magazine, Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals, and Native American detective fiction.
Courses
AMS 391 • Indigeneity And Immigration-Wb
30665 • Fall 2020
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
(also listed as E 395M)
E 376M • Immigration Literature
35210 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM PAR 310
CDWr
(also listed as LAH 350)
E 349S • Ernest Hemingway
35575 • Spring 2019
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM RLP 0.128
E 384M • Professional Outcomes
35790 • Spring 2019
Meets M 4:00PM-7:00PM CAL 221
E 316M • American Literature
35490-35575 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM SAC 1.402
CD
HU
E 384K • Professional Outcomes
35240 • Spring 2018
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM CAL 323
E 316M • American Literature
35260-35335 • Fall 2017
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM SAC 1.402
CD
HU
E 395M • Race/Hist Amer Lit Studies
35878 • Fall 2017
Meets T 12:30PM-3:30PM UTC 3.120
E 349S • Ernest Hemingway
35455 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAR 308
Wr
E 384K • Disciplinary Outcomes
35665 • Spring 2017
Meets T 5:00PM-8:00PM MEZ 2.102
E 316M • American Literature
35030-35085 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM SAC 1.402
CD
HU
E 384K • Disciplinary Outcomes
34850 • Spring 2016
Meets W 5:00PM-8:00PM CAL 200
E 316M • American Literature
34180-34334 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM SAC 1.402
CD
HU
E F316M • American Literature
82535 • Summer 2015
Meets MTWTHF 8:30AM-10:00AM PAR 1
CD
MAS F374 • Am Indian-Mex Amer Lit & Film
82965 • Summer 2015
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM PAR 210
CD
E 376M • Immigration Literature
34930 • Spring 2015
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM PAR 302
CDWr
(also listed as LAH 350)
E 349S • Ernest Hemingway
35805 • Fall 2014
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM GAR 0.120
Wr
UGS 302 • Imagining America
63960 • Fall 2014
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GAR 0.120
CDWr
ID
E 379R • Native American Literature
36220 • Spring 2014
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM GAR 2.128
CDIIWr
E 349S • Ernest Hemingway
35830 • Fall 2013
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM PAR 204
Wr
E 316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
34790-34835 • Spring 2013
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM FAC 21
CD
HU
E 395M • Contemp Native Amer Fict/Thry
35870 • Spring 2013
Meets MW 9:00AM-10:30AM CLA 0.108
E 349S • Ernest Hemingway
35470 • Fall 2012
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM PAR 103
Wr
E 377K • American Novel After 1920
35680 • Fall 2012
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM MEZ 2.202
CDWr
E S349S • Ernest Hemingway
83875 • Summer 2012
Meets MTWTHF 8:30AM-10:00AM PAR 105
E 316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
34715-34750 • Spring 2012
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM FAC 21
CD
HU
E 377K • American Novel After 1920
35495 • Spring 2012
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM GAR 2.128
CDWr
E F350R • Interwar Us Literature
83605 • Summer 2011
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM SZB 286
CD
E 395M • Contemp Native Amer Fict/Thry
36025 • Spring 2011
Meets MW 12:30PM-2:00PM MEZ 1.104
E 316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
33960-34005 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 8:00AM-9:30AM BUR 106
HU
E 377K • American Novel After 1920
34910 • Fall 2010
Meets T 5:00PM-8:00PM PAR 103
CDWr
E 377K • American Novel After 1920-W
35045 • Spring 2010
Meets MWF 8:00AM-9:00AM PAR 204
C2
E 379N • Interwar Us Literature-Hon-W
35095 • Spring 2010
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.102
Wr
C2
E 316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
34365-34410 • Fall 2009
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM JES A121A
HU
E 379S • Senior Seminar-W
35340 • Fall 2009
Meets MWF 8:00AM-9:00AM PAR 204
C2
AMS 390 • Amer Indian Writs/Indigen Mex
30129 • Fall 2008
Meets MW 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.104
(also listed as MAS 392)
AMS 315 • Native American Lit And Cul-W
26336 • Fall 2003
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM PAR 203
C1
Publications
Books
The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. [Second printing, 2009]
Books Edited
Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Articles
“Indigeneity and Immigration in Susan Glaspell’s Inheritors.” Co-authored with Alexander Pettit. Comparative Drama 53.3 (Fall 2019): 31-58.
“The Cross and the Harvest Dance: Lynn Riggs’ and James Hughes’ A Day in Santa Fe.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 32.4 (2015): 384-398.
“‘Learn to Talk Yaqui’: Mexico and the Cherokee Literary Politics of Will Rogers and John Milton Oskison.” Western American Literature 48.4 (Winter 2014): 401-21.
"Mexican Indigenismo, Choctaw Self-Determination, and Todd Downing's Detective Novels." American Quarterly 62.3 (September 2010): 639-61.
"Indigenous Nationhood and Intertribal Kinship in Todd Downing's The Mexican Earth." MELUS 33.1 (Spring 2008): 75-92.
"The Power of Sympathy: European American Women Novelists Imagine Indigenous Absence." ATQ: 19th Century American Literature and Culture 15.3 (2001): 191-207.
"'All This Water Imagery Must Mean Something': Thomas King's Revisions of Narratives of Domination and Conquest in Green Grass, Running Water." American Indian Quarterly 24.2 (2000): 219-46.
"Muting White Noise: The Subversion of Popular Culture Narratives of Conquest in Sherman Alexie's Fiction." Studies in American Indian Literatures 9.4 (1997): 52-70.
Book Chapters
"American Indian Literature and Post-Revolutionary Mexico." The Cambridge History of Native American Literature. Ed. Melanie B. Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 197-212.
“Red Land, White Power, Blue Sky: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Breaking Bad.” Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture. Co-edited by Rachel Gonzalez-Martin and Domino Renee Perez. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018. 262-78.
“Native American Detective Fiction and Settler Colonialism.” A History of American Crime Fiction. Ed. Christopher Raczkowski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 250-62.
"Thomas King, Indian Policy, and American Indian Activism.” Thomas King: Works and Impacts. Ed. Eva Gruber. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012. 224-37.
"Tribal Nations and the Other Territories of American Indian Literary History." A Companion to American Literary Studies. Ed. Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 356-72.
"This Is What It Means to Say Reservation Cinema: Making Cinematic Indians in Smoke Signals." Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Jan Roush and Jeff Berglund. Logan: University of Utah Press, 2010. 74-94.
"'Yours for the Indian Cause': Gertrude Bonnin's Activist Editing at The American Indian Magazine, 1915-1919." Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830-1910. Ed. Sharon M. Harris. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004. 173-201.
Reprints
“Mexican Indigenismo, Choctaw Self-Determination, and Todd Downing’s Detective Novels.” Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies. Ed. Paul Lai and Lindsey Claire Smith. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2011. 233-55.
“Muting White Noise: The Subversion of Popular Culture Narratives of Conquest in Sherman Alexie’s Fiction.” Native American Writing. Vol. 3. Ed. A. Robert Lee. London: Routledge, 2011. 3-19.
“Muting White Noise: The Subversion of Popular Culture Narratives of Conquest in Sherman Alexie’s Fiction.” Approaching Literature: Writing, Reading, Thinking. Second Edition. Ed. Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 283-8. [Third edition, 2012]
“Muting White Noise: The Subversion of Popular Culture Narratives of Conquest in Sherman Alexie’s Fiction.” Short Story Criticism, Vol. 107. Ed. Jelena Krstovic. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale/Cengage, 2008. 10-20.
Review Essays
“The Native Critics Collective on the Past, Present, and Possible Futures of American Indian Literary Studies.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 20.2 (2008): 102-12.
Reviews
Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith, eds., Theorizing Native Studies. The American Literary History Online Review Series VII (2016).
Susan Kalter, ed., Twenty Thousand Mornings: An Autobiography, by John Joseph Mathews. Western American Literature 47.4 (Winter 2013): 439-40.
Phillip H. Round, Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880. Textual Cultures 7.2 (2012): 125-7.
Robert Dale Parker, ed., The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 25.1 (2008): 168-69.
Kenneth Lincoln, Native American Renaissance. E3W Review of Books (2008): 85-86.
Frances Washburn, Elsie’s Business. E3W Review of Books (2006): 66-67.
Franchot Ballinger, Living Sideways: Tricksters in American Indian Oral Traditions. MELUS 30.2 (2005): 252-55.
Elvira Pulitano, Toward a Native American Critical Theory. American Indian Quarterly 29.1&2 (2005): 316-21.
Ruth Spack, America’s Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860-1900. Studies in American Indian Literatures. 16.1 (2004): 81-84.
Arnold Krupat, Red Matters: Native American Studies. Great Plains Quarterly 23.4 (2003): 271-72.
R. David Edmunds, ed., The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900. Studies in American Indian Literatures 15.2 (2003): 76-79.
Gilberto Chavez Ballejos and Shirley Hill Witt, El Indio Jesus: A Novel. Studies in American Indian Literatures 14.4 (2002): 51-54.
Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez, Contemporary American Indian Literatures & the Oral Tradition. Great Plains Quarterly 20.3 (2000): 239-40.
Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird, eds., Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America. Prairie Schooner 73.1 (1999): 184-88.
James J. Rawls, Chief Red Fox is Dead: A History of Native Americans Since 1945. Great Plains Quarterly 18.1 (1998): 56-57.