2018-19 Courses

• ENGL 340 001/6.0 Romantic Literature
• ENGL 441 001-8/3.0 Topics in Romanticism I – Jane Austen and her Contemporaries
• ENGL 854 Topics in Romantic Literature: Consuming the Opium-Eater: Thomas De Quincey

Awards

• W. J. Barnes Teaching Excellence Award (2017-18)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2017)
• The University of Lethbridge Distinguished Alumnus of the Year (2013)
• Finalist for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2010)
• Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching (2014, 2008, 2006)
• Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Teaching Award (2008)
• W. J. Barnes Teaching Excellence Award (2006)

Research Interests

• Thomas De Quincey
• William Wordsworth
• John Wilson
• Leigh Hunt
• Jane Austen
• The Regency
• British magazines
• print culture
• the literature of addiction
• detective fiction

Forthcoming and Recent Publications

The Regency Years (New York: W. W. Norton, forthcoming).

The Collected Letters of Thomas De Quincey, ed. Barry Symonds and Robert Morrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

The 21st-Century Oxford Authors: Thomas De Quincey, ed. Robert Morrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Romanticism and Blackwood’s Magazine: “An Unprecedented Phenomenon,” ed. Robert Morrison and Daniel S. Roberts (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2013).

Current Supervisions

Drew MacDonald (about students)