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Robert Morrison

Professor

robert.morrison@queensu.ca

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Biography

Robert Morrison has taught nineteenth-century British literature and culture at Acadia University, Queen’s University, and Bath Spa University.

Research Interests

British Romanticism, Lord Byron, the Regency, The Beat Poets, the periodical press, the literature of addiction, the medical humanities, scholarly editing, crime and gothic fiction, Jane Austen, Thomas De Quincey, the Blackwood’s Magazine circle

Selected Publications

  • The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose, Oxford University Press, 2024 
  • 21st-Century Oxford Authors: Thomas De Quincey, Oxford University Press, 2019
  • The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron, and the Making of the Modern World, London: Atlantic, 2019
  • The Regency Years: During which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love and Britain Becomes Modern, W. W. Norton, 2019

Works in progress

  • John Galt, The Life of Lord Byron (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)
  • The Letters of Thomas De Quincey, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Awards and Recognition

  • Shortlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Crown Award, 2020
  • Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction, 2020
  • Longlisted for the Elma Dangerfield Prize, 2020
  • British Academy Global Professorship, 2019-23
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2017
  • The University of Lethbridge Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, 2013
  • Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, 2010

Graduate Supervision

Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen, Algernon Swinburne.

Additional Information

British Academy Global Professor and Queen’s National Scholar

Morrison’s book The Regency Years: During which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love and Britain Becomes Modern was reviewed in the following publications: Rolling Stone, The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Sunday Times.

Morrison has written several blogs that have been picked up in newspapers and magazines in Canada, France, England, India, the United States, Australia, and elsewhere: