2025

Renshaw, D. and Cocks, N., eds. (2025) Literature, the Gothic and the reconstruction of history: the past as nightmare. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781032736464 doi: 10.4324/9781003465270

2024

Cocks, N. (2024) Student-centred: education, freedom, and the idea of audience. 2nd edition. Axis Series, 7. Inkermen Press/Axis, pp225. ISBN 9781803527109 (In Press)

2023

Cocks, N. (2023) On ‘Lucy Fairchild’s Journal’: Martha Mary Sherwood, didacticism, and child voice. In: 2023 The World Bang Jung Hwan Conference, 09-11 Nov 2023, The President Hotel/Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, pp. 29-38.

Cocks, N. (2023) On the tolerance of children’s literature criticism: psychoanalysis, neighborliness, and Pooh. Humanities, 12 (3). 45. ISSN 2076-0787 doi: 10.3390/h12030045

Cocks, N. (2023) "…pure existence, without sense…": Joan Copjec, Hitchcock’s Rebecca, and reading the real. Textual Practice. pp. 1-19. ISSN 1470-1308 doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2023.2214122

2022

Cocks, N. H. (2022) Letting go, coming out, and working through: queer Frozen. Humanities, 11 (6). 146. ISSN 2076-0787 doi: 10.3390/h11060146

2021

Cocks, N. (2021) The flight of (the) concord: Joan Copjec and Slavoj Žižek read ‘Irma’s Injection’. International Journal of Zizek Studies, 15 (2). ISSN 1751-8229

2020

Cocks, N., Green, K. and Stoorie, J. (2020) Ghost story in a box booklet. Study Higher.

Cocks, N. (2020) Narrated Rand: HUAC, engraved invitations, and the real of sexual difference. In: Cocks, N. (ed.) Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectjvity, Political Economy, and the Arts. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics. Palgrave. ISBN 9783030530723

Cocks, N. (2020) ‘“Oh, that's Francisco's private joke” […]’: Atlas shrugged, the gold standard, and utopia. In: Cocks, N. (ed.) Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectjvity, Political Economy, and the Arts. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics. Palgrave, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9783030530730

Cocks, N. (2020) Questioning Ayn Rand: subjectivity, political economy, and the arts. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics. Palgrave, Basingstoke, UK. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-53073-0

Cocks, N. (2020) Psychoanalysis in sex education. In: Cook, D. T. (ed.) The Sage Encyclopedia of childhood and Childhood Studies. Sage, London. ISBN 9781473942929

Cocks, N. (2020) The boarding school. In: Cook, D. T. (ed.) The Sage Encyclopedia of Childhood and Childhood Studies. Sage, London. ISBN 9781473942929

Cocks, N. (2020) The school story. In: Cook, D. T. (ed.) The Sage Encyclopedia of Childhood and Childhood Studies. Sage, London. ISBN 9781473942929

Cocks, N. (2020) Gender, genre and dracula: Joan Copjec and ‘vampire fiction’. Humanities, 9 (2). 33. ISSN 2076-0787 doi: 10.3390/h9020033

2017

Lesnik-Oberstein, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-0556 and Cocks, N. (2017) Back to where we came from: evolutionary psychology and children’s literature and media. In: Wesseling, E. (ed.) Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia: Books, Toys, and Contemporary Media Culture. Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the present. Routledge, London, pp. 318-336. ISBN 9781472474124

Cocks, N. (2017) Higher Education discourse and deconstruction: challenging the case for transparency and objecthood. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave. ISBN 9783319529820 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-52983-7

2016

Cocks, N. (2016) ‘Uncanny’ repetitions in Lillian Hellman’s 'The Children’s Hour'. Modern Drama, 59 (4). pp. 363-379. ISSN 1712-5286 doi: 10.3138/md.0771R

2015

Cocks, N. (2015) 'he perceives himself as a caterpillar […]' constructions of the disabled subject in the critical response to Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'. In: Lesnik-Oberstein, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-0556 (ed.) Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice: Challenging Essentialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 165-184. ISBN 9781137456977

2014

Cocks, N. (2014) The peripheral child in nineteenth century literature and its criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137452443

Robinson, O. (2014) The witch house of Canewdon and other poems. Lethmachen Press, Bristol, UK, pp64. ISBN 9780992829100

2013

Cocks, N. (2013) The child and the letter: Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Textual Practice, 27 (7). pp. 1125-1147. ISSN 1470-1308 doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2013.767854

2012

Cocks, N. (2012) The child and imperial return: the mystery of Edwin Drood. Parallax, 18 (4). pp. 54-66. ISSN 1460-700X doi: 10.1080/13534645.2012.714554 (Special issue: Imperial affect)

2011

Cocks, N. (2011) ‘Scripture its own interpreter’: Mary Martha Sherwood, the Bible and female autobiography. Nineteenth Century Gender Studies , 7 (3). ISSN 1556-7524

Cocks, N. (2011) Fort/ da: a reading of Picturing innocence by Anne Higonnet. In: Lesnik-Oberstein, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-0556 (ed.) Children in culture, revisited: further approaches to childhood. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 147-166. ISBN 9780230275546

2009

Cocks, N. (2009) Student-centred: education, freedom and the idea of audience. Axis Series, 7. InkerMen Press, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, pp246. ISBN 9780955625961

2007

Cocks, N. (2007) On Frida Kahlo’s moustache: a reading of Self-portrait with cropped hair and its criticism. In: Lesnik-Oberstein, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-0556 (ed.) The last taboo: women and body hair. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 191-208. ISBN 9780719075001

2004

Cocks, N. (2004) 'Response and Responsibility: Theories of the Implied Reader in Children's Literature Criticism'. In: Children's Literature: New Approaches. Palgrave, London, pp. 93-118.

Cocks, N. (2004) Writing, death and absence in 'Tim' by H.O. Sturgis. Nineteenth Century Contexts, 26 (1). pp. 47-60. ISSN 1477-2663 doi: 10.1080/08905490410001683291

2002

Cocks, N. (2002) Hunting the animal boy. The Yearbook of English Studies, 32. pp. 177-185. doi: 10.2307/3509056