Robert Morrison

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Robert Morrison is British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University. His book, The Regency Years, During which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern (2019), was published by W. W. Norton in North America. Under the title The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron, and the Making of the Modern World, it was published by Atlantic in Britain. Morrison is the author of The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (2009), which was a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. He edited Jane Austen's Persuasion for Harvard University Press, and Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater for Oxford University Press. He has been including the words and music of The Beatles in his lectures for almost thirty years.

• 2019present Professor of English literature, Bath Spa University, UK
• 2003present Professor of English literature, Queen's University, Ontario
• 19922003 Professor of English literature, Acadia University, Nova Scotia

• 1991  University of Edinburgh, PhD
• 1987  University of Oxford, MPhil
• 1983  University of Lethbridge, BA

• 2019 21st-Century Oxford Authors: Thomas De Quincey, Oxford: 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, New York: W. W. Norton
• 2013 Thomas De Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 2011 Jane Austen's Persuasion: An Annotated Edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
• 2009 The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson

• 2019 The Literature of Addiction Role: Principal Researcher Funding Source: British Academy
• 2012 The British Regency, 1811-1820 Role: Principal Researcher Funding Source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• 2006 The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey Role: Principal Researcher Funding Source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

British Academy Global Professorship (2019-23); W. J. Barnes Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017-18); Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2017); Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching (2014); The University of Lethbridge Distinguished Alumnus of the Year (2013); Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008); Queen's National Scholar (2003).

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