Robert J. H. Morrison

Robert J. H. Morrison (born 6 January 1961) is a Canadian author, editor, academic, and professor of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is a scholar of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture, particularly of Romanticism and the works of Thomas De Quincey.

Early life

Morrison was born and raised in Lethbridge, Alberta. He was educated at the University of Lethbridge, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1983. He later pursued a Master of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, which he completed in 1987. In 1991, Morrison earned his PhD at the University of Edinburgh.

Academic Career

Morrison is currently a full professor of English and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He has been the recipient of a number of teaching awards, including the Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching on three separate occasions (2006, 2008, 2014), the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Teaching Award (2008), and the W. J. Barnes Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006). He also received the University of Lethbridge Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award in 2013. Morrison maintains the Thomas De Quincey Homepage, a site devoted to the study of the life and writings of its namesake.

Writer

Morrison's 2009 biography of Thomas De Quincey was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography. He is the co-general editor of The Selected Works of Leigh Hunt, and editor of Hunt’s essays, 1822–38 (Pickering and Chatto, 2003). He is the editor of three volumes of the Works of Thomas De Quincey, and co-editor of a fourth (Pickering and Chatto, 2000–03). 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). For Oxford University Press, he edited Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings (2013), and Thomas De Quincey's On Murder (Oxford, 2006), and co-edited (with Chris Baldick) The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (1997), and Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine (1995). He produced Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: A Sourcebook for Routledge (2005), and he edited Richard Woodhouse's Cause Book: The Opium-Eater, the Magazine Wars and the London Literary Scene in 1821 as a complete issue of the Harvard Library Bulletin (1998).

Personal Life

Morrison is married to Carole Beaudin, director of the Queen’s University Ban Righ Centre. They have two children.

Bibliography

• Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings. Oxford University Press. 2013.
• Co-editor with Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Romanticism and Blackwood’s Magazine: “An Unprecedented Phenomenon”. Palgrave. 2013.
• Jane Austen's Persuasion: An Annotated Edition. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2011.
• The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey. Weidenfeld and Nicholson / Pegasus. 2009 [2010].
• Co-editor with Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Thomas De Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Directions. Routledge. 2008.
• Thomas De Quincey's On Murder. Oxford University Press. 2006.
• Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: a Literary Sourcebook. Routledge. 2005.
• The Selected Works of Leigh Hunt, Volume Three. Pickering and Chatto. 2003.
• The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volumes Seven, Eight, and Sixteen. Pickering and Chatto. 2003.
• Co-editor with Chris Baldick, The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre. Oxford University Press. 1997.
• Co-editor with Chris Baldick, Tales of Terror from Blackwood’s Magazine. Oxford University Press. 1995.

External links

• Official website