Robert Morrison

Robert Morrison studied at the University of Lethbridge; the University of Oxford; and the University of Edinburgh. Currently he is British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. His most recent book, The Regency Years, During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love and Britain Becomes Modern (2019), was longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize, and named by The Economist as a Book of the Year. His biography of Thomas De Quincey, The English Opium-Eater (2009), was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. Morrison published Thomas De Quincey: Selected Writings in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series (2019). His annotated edition of Jane Austen's Persuasion was published by Harvard University Press (2011). With Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, he edited Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine: "An Unprecedented Phenomenon" (2013) and Thomas De Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Directions (2008). With Chris Baldick, he edited The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (1997) and Tales of Terror from Blackwood’s Magazine (1995) for Oxford World's Classics.